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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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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Reboot: Nuclear needs a success . . . anywhere
The media have gleefully resurrected the language of a past nuclear renaissance. Beyond the hype and PR, many people in the nuclear community are taking a more measured view of conditions that could lead to new construction: data center demand, the proliferation of new reactor designs and start-ups, and the sudden ascendance of nuclear energy as the power source everyone wants—or wants to talk about.
Once built, large nuclear reactors can provide clean power for at least 80 years—outlasting 10 to 20 presidential administrations. Smaller reactors can provide heat and power outputs tailored to an end user’s needs. With all the new attention, are we any closer to getting past persistent supply chain and workforce issues and building these new plants? And what will the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president mean for nuclear?
As usual, there are more questions than answers, and most come down to money. Several developers are engaging with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or have already applied for a license, certification, or permit. But designs without paying customers won’t get built. So where are the customers, and what will it take for them to commit?
J. R. Brodrick, P. A. Lowe, W. E. Burchill
Nuclear Technology | Volume 24 | Number 2 | November 1974 | Pages 137-148
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A31470
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Experiments have been conducted to determine the nature of the hydraulic interaction between emergency core coolant (ECC) water injected into a cold leg of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) and steam passing through that cold leg during core reflood following a loss-of-coolant accident. Measurements of flow rates, fluid temperatures, and static and differential pressures were made in 1/5 and 1/3 linear scale models of the PWR piping from the steam generator of an intact loop to the break including the pump inlet piping (loop seal), pump, cold leg, reactor vessel annulus, and broken cold leg. The principal conclusion is that the injection section performs as a jet condenser with 45-, 60-, and 75-deg injection; and condensation, but no jet pumping, occurs with 90-deg injection. The results also indicate that total condensation occurred in the cold leg in all tests wherein the water injection rate was sufficient to condense the steam assuming thermodynamic equilibrium. The data suggest that the differential pressure measured in the cold leg across the ECC injection nozzle, the water axial momentum flux, and the steam momentum flux can be combined into appropriate nondimensional groups in order to extrapolate the results to full scale. In addition, the data suggest that the influence of jet condenser stability upon the injection section pressure differential may decrease with increasing system size.