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Nuclear Science & Technology Division (NST)Advanced Nuclear Concepts GroupThe Advanced Nuclear Concepts Group (ANCG) provides technical expertise in reactor physics, thermal-hydraulics, nuclear fuel design, and structural mechanics. The group supports a broad range of DOE research projects on future nuclear energy systems and accelerator-driven systems (ADS). In the area of nuclear energy systems ANCG is actively involved in research on using inert matrix fuel to burn plutonium and other transuranics, thorium fuel implementation in existing LWRs, gas-cooled fast reactor design, compact high performance space reactor for thermal propulsion, methods development for the evaluation of the proliferation resistance characteristics of different fuel cycles, and the development of a new fuel fabrication technique by infiltrating uranium in a graphite matrix. In the area of accelerator-driven systems ANCG was responsible for the design of the collimator for the SNS accumulator ring. ANCG is also conducting analytical and experimental studies on material damage in high power targets, design of high power targets for ADS, and active methods for detecting explosives and SNM.
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