A more open future for nuclear science and technology

Abstract

Nuclear science and technology underpins many of the world’s most important sectors, from electricity generation to applications in areas as diverse as medicine, food and agriculture, space applications, and a multitude of developing industrial uses such as for hydrogen generation, desalination, and heat generation. As society shifts focus to major challenges around future energy supply and more sustainable use of the planet’s resources, so nuclear science and its applications are changing also to continue to support improvement in people’s lives. Open science practices can accelerate the contributions of the underlying research behind this progress, via open access, open data, and reproducibility through transparency. Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research is a new open access publication venue of the American Nuclear Society, based on open science principles, and is here to help shape this brighter future.