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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.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
2024 ANS Annual Conference
Ben Goodrich has spent his career in nuclear-adjacent technology development. As a Director, Ben leads a farrago of business functions including Strategy, Business Development, and Sales within TerraPower Isotopes, an emerging global supplier of actinium-225 used with radioligand therapy for cancer treatments. His expertise includes commercialization, deal structuring and negotiation, financial modeling, clinical trials forecasting, and isotope demand planning.
Ben has enjoyed over a decade of leading technical projects and turning ideas into reality at TerraPower. Prior to TerraPower, Ben worked at Idaho National Laboratory within the Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office.
Ben earned an MBA from Idaho State University and an undergrad from BYU-Idaho. He holds PMP, CVA, and CLP credentials and has multiple patents on hydrocarbon fractionation and liquefaction using super-critical CO2.
Ben currently lives in Northwest Montana with his wife and four children. In his spare time, Ben leads outdoor adventure trips with teenagers and does regular hands-on ‘research’ to find the best trout flies.
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