Statement of Scope:

Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear applications. It will focus on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense, or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics. Pertinent areas for technical sessions, topical meetings, and journal publications include, but are not limited to, efforts to improve the understanding of physical processes inherent in accelerator targets, as well as nuclear (neutronics/spallation), metallurgical, mechanical, thermal-hydraulic, and chemical processes in existing or proposed accelerator facilities. Collaborations with existing divisions having expertise in physics, materials, safety, shielding, and other specializations is anticipated, as is collaboration with divisions focusing on isotopes, fuel cycle and waste management issues and biological and medical applications.

Justification:

The accelerator applications field is growing rapidly in the US, Europe, and Asia, as measured by budgets and staffing, in such areas as spallation neutron sources, tritium production, heavy ion fusion, and waste transmutation. There exists no "host" professional society to hold high quality scientific and technical meetings and foster publication of technical information, such as review articles and standards. The American Physical Society (APS) has a group that focuses on accelerator design and beam dynamics, but it has not provided a forum for larger applications of accelerator targets (which in some respects resemble nuclear reactors). Similarly, the IEEE provides a forum to discuss power related issues in accelerator design. The natural home for large accelerator (and target) applications appears to be the American Nuclear Society, partly due to the diversity of its membership within the technical divisions, e.g., physics, materials, safety, waste, thermal-hydraulics, and so forth. Unfortunately, no single ANS Division charter can be interpreted to include all of these technical areas, although ANS members within the Nuclear Reactor Safety Division and the Fuel Cycle and Waste-Management Divisions have recently organized, on ad hoc bases, special sessions on accelerator based tritium production (APT) and waste transmutation. Sponsorship of sessions or topical meetings on accelerator applications currently requires collaboration between several ANS divisions, e.g., Reactor Physics, NRSD, Materials, Isotopes and Radiation, Shielding, etc. With the rapid growth in the field of accelerator applications, and the fundamentally "nuclear" nature of these missions, the time is right for the ANS to form a Technical Group/Division to provide a home for this work and to better facilitate collaboration between the accelerator applications community and technical specialists throughout the ANS.

Plan for first year of operations:

• Before Nov 96 Meeting in Washington, DC
  

  Plan Executive Committee Meeting: Monday Nov 11, 7:30-9 PM,
  Oct 8 Meeting at LANL: Planned Embedded Topical Meeting for Albuquerque in Nov 97,
  Prepare for Professional Division Committee Meeting on Nov 12,
  Presentation by Van Tuyle, et al,
  Form Executive Committee and Program Committee,
  Plan Program Committee: Sunday, Nov 10, Noon-3 PM,
  Plan two Sessions for Orlando Meeting (June 97),
  Prepare to Propose Embedded Topical Meeting for Albuquerque in Nov 97
  

• At Nov 96 Mtg in Washington

  Executive Committee Meeting,
  

  Plan Formation of New Technical Group/Division,
  Constitute Committees, Officers, Membership,
  Attend and Brief Executive Committees for Existing ANS Divisions,
  Presentation to Professional Divisions Committee (Van Tuyle),
  

  Program Committee Meeting:
  

  Plan Accelerator Applications Sessions for Orlando
  Discuss Future Sessions and Topical Meetings
  Transition into Technical Program Committee Mtg for Albuquerque Topical,
  Proposed Embedded Topical for Albuquerque in Nov 97 to NPC

• Before June 97 Meeting in Orlando: Plan full slate of Committee Meetings

• At June 97 Meeting in Orlando

  Full Slate of Meetings,
  Plan transition from Technical Group to Division,
  Continue work on Embedded Topical Meeting for Albuquerque

• Before Nov 97 Meeting in Albuquerque: Prepare for Embedded Topical Meeting

• At Nov 97 Meeting

  Host Embedded Topical on Accelerator Applications,
  Prepare for Election of Executive Committee and Officers,
  Propose Accelerator Applications Group Become a Division