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Candidates for leadership provide statements: ANS Board of Directors
With the annual ANS election right around the corner, American Nuclear Society members will be going to the polls to vote for a vice president/president-elect, treasurer, and members-at-large for the Board of Directors. In January, Nuclear News published statements from candidates for vice president/president-elect and treasurer. This month, we are featuring statements from each nominee for the Board of Directors.
J. F. Gibbons, J. R. Dietrich
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 6 | June 1967 | Pages 343-352
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27856
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Assessments of the economics of power generation using integral nuclear superheater fuel elements of the rod type are pessimistic at the present time. On the other hand, combination boiler-superheater fuel elements, if they can be shown to perform satisfactorily in a reactor, offer much greater promise of producing power from an integral superheat reactor at an attractive price. The characteristics required of an economic superheat fuel element, and the manner in which the novel type of element described herein intrinsically supplies those characteristics, is discussed together with the results of certain design analyses and out-of-pile experiments.