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ANS Student Conference 2025
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RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary
In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee (RP3C), celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like so many online events, these CoPs brought people together at a time when interacting with others became challenging in early 2020. Since the kickoff CoP, which highlighted the impact that systems engineering has on the design of NuScale’s small modular reactor, the last Friday of most months has featured a new speaker leading a discussion on the use of risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) thinking in the nuclear industry. Providing a venue to convene for people within ANS and those who found their way online by another route, CoPs are an opportunity for the community to receive answers to their burning questions about the subject at hand. With 50–100 active online participants most months, the conversation is always lively, and knowledge flows freely.
O. K. Tallent, James C. Mailen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 59 | Number 1 | October 1982 | Pages 51-62
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A33051
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A hydrazine oxalate [(N2H5)2C2O4] solution was used as an alternative wash method for cleaning 30% tributyl phosphate—70% normal paraffin hydrocarbon solvent. Experimental evidence shows the (N2H5)2C2O4 wash solutions to be as effective as hydrazine carbonate [(N2H5)2CO3] or sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) in cleanup of test solvents. Major advantages of the alternative method are: (a) (N2H5)2C2O4 wash solutions are easier to prepare and store than are the (N2H5)2CO3 solutions and (b) the and ions in spent (N2H5)2C2O4 wash solutions can be decomposed into gases, whereas the sodium from Na2CO3 solutions must eventually be stored in some form as nuclear waste.
