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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
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)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Volkan Seker, Haining Zhou, Thomas J. Downar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 206 | Number 6 | June 2020 | Pages 805-824
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2019.1703464
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The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) was designed in the late 1950s to test nuclear fuels and materials under extreme conditions and has been recently restarted by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide the transient test capability to evaluate the performance of innovative nuclear fuels under accident conditions. Benchmark experiment data are required to support the operation of TREAT and to validate the computational analyses necessary to design and evaluate the experiments. Therefore, in this paper, benchmark problems based on the minimum critical (MC) core and M8 Power Calibration Experiment (M8CAL) core of TREAT were developed and analyzed using the Monte Carlo code Serpent. The eigenvalue, temperature coefficient, and flux distributions for both the MC core and the M8CAL cores were calculated and compared to the experimental data. All the calculated values compared well to the experimental data, and both problems were subsequently approved as International Reactor Physics Experiment Evaluation Project benchmarks.