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Radiation Protection & Shielding
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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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March 2025
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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.
June 16–19, 2024
All In on Nuclear Deployment: The Stakes Have Never Been Higher
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Thank you for participating in the 2024 ANS Annual Conference!
The Annual Conference TRANSACTIONS are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the TRANSACTIONS is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
You can also access the TRANSACTIONS by logging in to the ANS website. Then:
See what happened at our Annual Conference in these photos from the conference!
From the lobby, go through the casino, past the restaurants, food court and Aquarium then up 2 floors via elevator or escalator.
Monday, June 178:00–11:30AM
Jennifer M. GranholmSecretary,U.S. Department of Energy
Jeff LyashTennessee Valley Authority
Chris WomackSouthern Company
Michael GoffU.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy
Peter FreedFormerly Clean Energy Buyers Alliance and Meta
Adrian AndersonMicrosoft
Dr. Adam SteinBreakthrough Institute
Briana KoborGoogle
Tuesday Special Session: Our Friends the Isotopes | Tuesday, June 18 | 8:00–9:45AM
Catherine PratWestinghouse Electric Company
Riaz BandaliNordion
Ben Goodrich TerraPower LLC
Ross Radel, PhD, PESHINE Technologies
Harsh DesaiZeno Power
Alyse HuffmanU.S. Senate Staff Member
Thanks to a great paper submission turnout and our two embedded topical meetings, the 2024 ANS Annual Conference is expanding and moving to a larger venue – Mandalay Bay.
The venue change will allow more space for our technical sessions and great networking opportunities that bring together the nuclear community like no other meeting. To accommodate the change, we’re moving the conference to June 16-19, which is one week later than the original dates.
The two topical meetings, Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS) and International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP), will also take place June 16-19.
This year’s ANS Annual Conference promises to be an experience like no other. You can bet on it.
Questions? Contact meetings@ans.org.
Enhance your visibility at ANS Annual Conference 2024 by becoming a sponsor. All sponsors are recognized on the conference website, conference communications, at the Opening Plenary and on signage displayed throughout the conference. Sponsorship packages are limited, so reserve your sponsorship package early.
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