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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
K. J. Hofstetter, W. B. Stroube, Jr.,+ B. C. Henderson, G. A. Huff
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 3 | August 1980 | Pages 443-457
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A17692
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The on-line and process radiation monitoring capability at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant has been evaluated. Experiments have been performed to test the monitors’ capability to assay plant streams. Several of the monitors have been subjected to evaluation experiments in the laboratory to determine sensitivity, accuracy, reliability, and overall system performance. The incorporation of many of these monitors into a real-time or near-real-time material control system is under way. Many of the monitors have been tested for operability in situ and the results of these tests indicate satisfactory performance over the intended sensitivity ranges. An effort is under way to develop new nondestructive assay techniques for on-line monitoring of special nuclear materials present in the process streams of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.