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- ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
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- Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
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  Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
  Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
Events
- Meeting Spotlight
  ANS Student Conference 2025
  April 3–5, 2025
  Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards
- 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!
Publications
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  Feb 2025
  Jul 2024
  Latest Journal Issues
  Nuclear Science and Engineering
  March 2025
  Nuclear Technology
  March 2025
  Fusion Science and Technology
  February 2025
- Latest News
  Colin Judge: Testing structural materials in Idaho’s newest hot cell facility
  Idaho National Laboratory’s newest facility—the Sample Preparation Laboratory (SPL)—sits across the road from the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which started operating in 1975. SPL will host the first new hot cells at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) in 50 years, giving INL researchers and partners new flexibility to test the structural properties of irradiated materials fresh from the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) or from a partner’s facility.
  Materials meant to withstand extreme conditions in fission or fusion power plants must be tested under similar conditions and pushed past their breaking points so performance and limitations can be understood and improved. Once irradiated, materials samples can be cut down to size in SPL and packaged for testing in other facilities at INL or other national laboratories, commercial labs, or universities. But they can also be subjected to extreme thermal or corrosive conditions and mechanical testing right in SPL, explains Colin Judge, who, as INL’s division director for nuclear materials performance, oversees SPL and other facilities at the MFC.
  SPL won’t go “hot” until January 2026, but Judge spoke with NN staff writer Susan Gallier about its capabilities as his team was moving instruments into the new facility.
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Joshua Vajda

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Marcio Paes-Barreto

Bruce Hallbert

D. V. Rao

Jim Kinsey
Mark Holbrook and Wayne Moe

Richard K. Lester

Mitchell Farmer

Richard Denning

Margaret E. Harding

Mario D. Carelli

Ernest D. Eason
G. Robert Odette
Randy K. Nanstad
Takuya Yamamoto and Joyce E. Wright.

Terry L. Schulz

Chien Chang (Johnny) Lin

David I. Poston
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Charles W. Forsberg

Richard Rhodes

Barth Doroshuk
John Rycyna
Marvin Bowman
Donis Shaw

Bertrand Tavitian

Raymond W. Durante

Bruno Sicard
Herve Bernard
Jean-Paul Chaudat and Jacques Bourges

Bernard L. Cohen

J. Neil Rutger

Jerry D. Christian

Eric McFarland

H. "Peter" Planchon
John I. Sackett

Jean Francois Pineau
Allain Rannou
Marie-Christine Robe

Louis Saint-Lebe

Bruce D. Kenyon

John O'Sullivan

Glen J. Schoessow
Alfred C. Tollison, Jr.
James D. Vandergrift

Milton Levenson
William R. Stratton
Edward Warman

Michael E. Phelps
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Jack E. Vessely and John M. Armaral
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Benjamin Tenzer
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William J. Collins
Mohamed Behravesh

Allison M. Platt and team of R. Bonniaud
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A.P. Malinauskas
W.R. Stratton

Cyril Comar (posthumous)

Yankee Atomic Electric Company

Experimental Breeder Reactor (EBR-II) Project Team

J.O. Biomeke
F. Culler
J. Blomeke
D.E. Ferguson and R. Wymer

Norman C. Rasmussen

Edward G. Struxness

Watler Meyer

G. Robert Keepin

Lendell E. Steele

Ely M. Gelbard

Arthur G. Ward

W. Wayne Meinke

Warren R. Gromes
Paul Cohen

Jack Chernick
Mark Nelkin

Benjamin Lustman

V.P. Guinn
G.W. Ledicotte
R.M. Walter
P.B. Price and R.L. Fleischer

Leon O. Jacobson

Alberto F. Thompson