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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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!
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TerraPower begins U.K. regulatory approval process
Seattle-based TerraPower signaled its interest this week in building its Natrium small modular reactor in the United Kingdom, the company announced.
TerraPower sent a letter to the U.K.’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, formally establishing its intention to enter the U.K. generic design assessment (GDA) process. This is TerraPower’s first step in deployment of its Natrium technology—a 345-MW sodium fast reactor coupled with a molten salt energy storage unit—on the international stage.
T. S. Bulischeck, D. van Rooyen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 55 | Number 2 | November 1981 | Pages 383-393
Technical Paper | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT55-383
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Pressurized water reactor steam generator tubing fabricated from Inconel 600 with processing histories typical of past and current production methods has been evaluated for stress corrosion cracking susceptibility. Quantitative relationships between failure times and the various factors that affect the susceptibility are being developed. These variables include stress, strain, strain rate, environment, and temperature. Constant extension rate tests have been employed to simulate material subjected to active deformation produced by denting and to provide data on crack velocities. Reverse tube U-bend specimens provide failure time versus temperature relationships in service-related environments for determining the service life expectancy of tubing that was no longer actively denting. Constant load and cyclic load tests have also been conducted. Initial results indicate that semilog Arrhenius relationships with temperature exist in the crack propagation stage and possibly crack in the initiation stage, which may make it possible to evaluate various heats of material and heat treatments with short-term high temperature tests.