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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
Benjamin Lilley, Todd S. Palmer
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 8 | August 2023 | Pages 1902-1910
Technical papers from: PHYSOR 2022 | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2023.2171273
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A many-reactor power plant with a shared used fuel pool presents significant challenges and a novel opportunity for fuel management optimization. We develop a Python package and interface it with optimization software and core modeling software to automate exploration of the design space for the multireactor multicycle problem. A genetic algorithm is used to search the core reload design space for a two-reactor system, with and without used fuel sharing. With equal computational effort, we find that the fuel-sharing strategy slightly lowers cost.