ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
Latest Magazine Issues
Sep 2025
Jan 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2025
Nuclear Technology
September 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
W. R. Mills, Jr., L. S. Allen, F. Selig, R. L. Caldwell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 1 | Number 4 | August 1965 | Pages 312-321
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NT65-A20528
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The die-away of thermal neutrons and capture gamma rays from a pulsed source has been measured in a heterogeneous rock-fluid system for a variety of physical conditions. The system was a cubical lattice about one meter on a side, consisting of vertical calcium carbonate rods and empty channels. The channels were filled with either calcium carbonate rods or fluid, thus giving a variable volume ratio of rock and fluid. Measurements with a 3He counter and NaI detector were carried out in a 7-in. (18-cm) diameter hole through the middle of the cube. Experimentally measured neutron lifetimes were compared to values calculated from a three-group time- and space-dependent computer code. A theoretical gamma-ray decay curve was calculated from a spatial integration over the computed neutron distribution. Unattenuated and singly scattered radiation were included.