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Division Spotlight
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
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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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) SPeaker
Founder of nuclear energy start-up Karnfull (“The World’s most Innovative Nuclear Start-Up” / WNE23) and an award-winning entrepreneur, marketeer and tech evangelist – with a knack for storytelling and building products and services that put the user experience center stage.
After 10+ years of management positions in FinTech with neobanks disrupting and improving the UX in traditional banking services, John decided to carry that mindset across into the carbon-free energy space to reboot the atomic era in Sweden and beyond.
With Karnfull he’s rapidly built a brand and company group that accelerates, popularises and enhances nuclear in order for it to play its pivotal role in the Nordic region reaching Paris goals.
Karnfull Energy is the digital-first electricity supplier disrupting Scandinavian markets with affordable, hourly-variable 100% nuclear tariffs. Karnfull Next is Europe’s first SMR project developer, establishing co-located SMR campuses across Sweden.
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