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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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ANS certificate and certification courses continue to improve
The American Nuclear Society launched its inaugural Nuclear 101 certificate course at the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo in November. The five-day program, which is designed to provide participants with a robust understanding of nuclear energy and engineering, was the talk of the conference, with nearly 50 attendees from different nuclear organizations participating in the course.
Technical Session|Panel|Fission Surface Power/Nuclear Electric Propulsion
Thursday, May 9, 2024|10:00–11:40AM MDT|Sweeney F
Session Chair:
Timothy Reuter
Session Organizer:
Most space nuclear systems are being designed with defense and human exploration applications in mind, but science applications could be the first meaningful use cases for these systems as they require significantly less power. What design features are scientists looking for and what would be the most impactful missions to apply nuclear power and propulsion to? The Accelerating Space Science with Nuclear Technology workshop took place in Tempe on December 6-7, 2023 to address these questions. The purposes of this workshop were to: 1) obtain direct feedback from the space science community about how they could use these technologies to acquire critical new scientific understanding of the solar system as well as to identify the space nuclear system attributes which would be most advantageous for space science missions and 2) inform the space science community of the progress being made toward operational nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion and fission surface power systems. This panel discussion will summarize the results of the workshop for the NETS community to increase awareness of space science mission needs and priorities for space nuclear technology.
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