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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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Become a knowledge manager at UWC 2024
The American Nuclear Society is now accepting applications for knowledge managers to work during the 2024 Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo. This year’s UWC, “Nuclear Momentum: Advancing Our Clean Energy Future,” will be held August 4–7, 2024, at the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort on Marco Island, Fla.=
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John Bennion
Kevin R. O'Kula
Benjamin R. Betzler
Peter B. Lyons
Dr. David L. AumillerDr. J. Rory KennedyDr. Karen Vierow KirklandDr. David J. KropaczekMs. Evelyn M. Mullen PEProf. Lin ShaoDr. Michael L. Zerkle
Dr. Rita BaranwalProf. Yaron DanonDr. Mitchell FarmerMr. Dennis W. HennekeDr. Kostadin N. IvanovDr. Richard LeeDr. Thomas A. MehlhornDr. Juergen RappDr. Kumar Sridharan
University of New Mexico (Best Section)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Best Section)University of Wisconsin Madison (Honorable Mention)Missouri University of Science & Technology (Honorable Mention)
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Janelle P. Wharry
William G. Wabbersen, Jr.
Stephen Ted Wood
Rebecca L. Steinman
William H. Hannum
Andrew G. Sowder
Patrick BerryJ. Wesley Hines
David L. RahnRichard T. Wood
Samuel Joseph CopeNathan H. Hart
Rudolph JohannesMaria (Rudy) Konings
Fuel Cycle Facility, Idaho National LaboratoryTokamak Fusion Test Reactor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Maria Okuniewski
Ahmed Hassanein
ANS Young Members GroupChairman Kristine L. SvinickiLeah Spradley ParksProf. Dan Gabriel CacuciHon. Rita Baranwal
Samir Darbali
Kenan Unlu
Michael Z. Podowski
Fiona E. Rayment
Siegfried S. Hecker
George FlanaganN. Prasad Kadambi
University of Tennessee Knoxville: Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Design and AnalysisAuthors: Alec Cacheris, Brandon Connor, Will Conroy, Aidan EdensAdvisor: Jason HaywardUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Plasma Sustainment and Tin Particle Mitigation in Extreme Ultraviolet LithographyAuthors: Alp Aktuna, Kaitlyn Butler, Andrew Fink, Dario PaniciAdvisor: David RuzicPurdue University: Design of a Novel Decision-Making Tool for the Analysis of Protective Actions During a Radiological ReleaseAuthors: David Champlin, Mark D’Aloia, Emily Downing, Elizabeth JayeAdvisor: Shripad RevankarUniversity of Sharjah: Design and Experimental Verification of a Gamma Radiogauge to Detect Water Level in Ballast Tanks in Oil PlatformsAuthors: Eslam A. Ahmed, Jwaher A. Alnaqbi, Priyonta RahmanAdvisor: Walid A. MetwallyNorth Carolina State University: Design of an Economical Low-Power Fast Spectrum Molten Chloride ReactorAuthors: Charles Goodman, Lindsay Verrico, Thomas Thompson, Vincent NovellinoAdvisor: Scott Palmtag
Dennis Henneke
Tim CrookMatthew D. Wargon
Lisa Marshall
William E. Burchill