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.
Division Spotlight
Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
Meeting Spotlight
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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
Jul 2024
Jan 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
August 2024
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Four million nuclear jobs by 2050: Who will do them?
Industry leaders from around the globe met this month to discuss the talent development that will be necessary for the long-term success of the nuclear industry.
The International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was held in Vienna earlier this month. Discussed there was the agency’s forecast for nuclear capacity to more than double—or hopefully triple—by 2050 and the requirement of more than four million professionals to support the industry.
Sergio Guarro, David Okrent
Nuclear Technology | Volume 67 | Number 3 | December 1984 | Pages 348-359
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT84-A33494
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Logic flowgraph methodology (LFM) is intended to provide a more efficient way of constructing failure models for use in a diagnosis oriented disturbance analysis system. The LFM approach represents a considerable development beyond previous methods and also may be useful in reliability and risk analysis applications. Like the digraph method, LFM produces process models in which the fundamental units of nodes and edges are used to represent process variables and causality relations, respectively. In LFM, however, a more extended set of representation rules allows one to achieve a greater level of modeling capability and flexibility. The LFM models hinge on the interconnection of two distinct networks, namely, the “causality network” and the “condition network.” In a formally defined and organized way the condition network represents the conditions whose occurrence can change or modify the course of process causality flow in the causality network. A test case demonstrates the applicability of LFM to situations of interest in nuclear power plant operation and also shows that once a suitable process flow graph model has been derived, it is possible to obtain any fault-tree structure whose top event can be expressed as a weak or strong perturbation on one of the variables constituting a flowgraph node. This fault-tree construction is performed automatically by a computer routine, accepting as input the logic flowgraph topology and the top event of the desired fault tree. In a disturbance analysis application, this routine also accepts as input a set of field instrumentation signals; using this information on line identifies within a fraction of a second the prime cause of the disturbance by logically developing only those tree branches that the instrumentation indicates as active. In reliability or risk analysis applications, on the contrary, the desired fault tree is developed to its full extent.