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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030
Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all energy stored in the system—with a demonstration system by 2030, and backs the claim with a technical paper published yesterday on arXiv: “Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion.”
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Alternate Chair:
Jamie B. Coble
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Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Semi-Automated Knowledge Capture and Representation for the Development of Knowledge Based Systems
A. Young (Univ. of Strathclyde), G. West (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Brown (Univ. of Strathclyde), B. Stephen (Univ. of Strathclyde), A. Duncan (The Alan Turing Institute), C. Michie (Univ. of Strathclyde), S. McArthur (Univ. of Strathclyde)
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Trusting Machine Learning in Nuclear Plant Control: A Reasoning-Based Discrepancy Checker
Botros N. Hanna (New Mexico State Univ.), Linyu Lin (North Carolina State Univ.), Paridhi Athe (North Carolina State Univ.), Tran C. Son (New Mexico State Univ.), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State Univ.)
Introduction of Analytics, Decision-Support, and Advanced Procedure Tool (ADAPT) and the Cultural Implications it Poses to the Nuclear Industry
R. Hill (INL), C. Kovesdi (INL), Z. Spielman (INL), J. Mohon (INL), T. Miyake (INL), K. Le Blanc (INL)
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