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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.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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ORISE report focuses on nuclear engineering degrees and enrollments
There is a mix of good news and bad in the latest Nuclear Engineering Enrollment and Degrees Survey, 2021–2022 Data. According to this report from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), compiled with data initially released in November 2023 and updated in February 2024, the number of doctoral degrees awarded in nuclear engineering at the end of the 2022 academic year in the United States—211 Ph.D.s—was the highest since the beginning of this survey’s data collection in 1966. However, the overall numbers of nuclear engineering degrees awarded in 2021 and 2022 were at their lowest levels in more than a decade. In addition, both undergraduate and graduate enrollment numbers were down compared with 2018 and 2019.
Chicago Local Section Event
November 8, 2023|7:00–8:00PM (8:00–9:00PM EST)
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The ANS Chicago Section invites ANS members to a virtual presentation on SMR technology. Rebecca Norris, the planning lead with NuScale Power’s Regulatory Affairs, will provide an update on NuScale's innovative advanced small modular reactor nuclear technology.
NuScale Power is the industry-leading provider of proprietary and innovative advanced small modular reactor nuclear technology, with a mission to help power the global energy transition by delivering safe, scalable, and reliable carbon-free energy. Rebecca will provide an update on the company’s SMR technology, which is powered by the NuScale Power Module™, a small, safe, pressurized water reactor that can each generate 77 megawatts of electricity (MWe) or 250 megawatts thermal (gross), and can be scaled through an array of flexible configurations up to 924 MWe (12 modules) of output.
Rebecca has been with NuScale since 2019. She received her Bachelors and her Senior Reactor Operator license from the University of Texas, and went on to serve one tour in the U.S. Naval ballistic missile submarine force as an officer on the USS Louisiana. She earned her Masters of Nuclear Engineering from Penn State, and then joined NuScale as a Licensing Supervisor over safety analysis, pressure vessels, and technical specifications in the last year of the Design Certification approval. As the company grew and the number of projects increased, there arose a need for a technically-focused planner and scheduler assigned solely to Licensing, and Rebecca volunteered for that role.
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