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Division Spotlight
Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
Meeting Spotlight
ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
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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IAEA’s Grossi joins international experts to sample Fukushima seawater
International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi visited Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi site on February 19, where he joined scientists from the Third Institute of Oceanography in China, the Korean Institute for Nuclear Safety in South Korea, and the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland in collecting seawater samples from a boat near the damaged nuclear power plant.
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Larry L. Wetzel
2023
Jean-Francois Lucchini
2022
Douglas G. Bowen
2021
Stanley H. Levinson
2020
George FlanaganN. Prasad Kadambi
2019
James FlorenceIan B. Wall
2018
Dr. Robert D. Busch
2017
Dr. Abraham Weitzberg
2016
Andrew O. Smetana
2015
Jerry E. HicksDonald J. Wakefield
2014
Steven L. Stamm
2013
Carl A. Mazzola
2012
Patricia A. SchroederElizabeth Briggs Johnson (posthumously)
2010
Allen CampThomas McLaughlin
2009
Calvin M. Hopper
2008
Donald J. Spellman
2007
William L. Whittemore posthumously
2006
Robert J. Budnitz
2005
James F. Mallay
2004
Charles H. Moseley
2003
Wade J. Richards
2002
Francis M. Alcorn
2001
Michael J. Wright
2000
William C. Hopkins
1999
Dimitrios Cokinos
1998
Marilyn D. Weber
1997
David R. Smith
1996
Tawfik M. Raby
1995
Hugh K. Clark
1994
George L. Wessman
1993
Joseph T. Thomas
1992
J. Ed Smith posthumously
1991
David K. Trubey
1990
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Walter H. D'Ardenne
1988
A. Dixon CallihanRalph G. ChalkerMiles C. Leverett