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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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Lloyd’s Register supports Prodigy’s bring-your-own-reactor floating plant concept
Prodigy Clean Energy and Lloyd’s Register have announced a collaboration to support the deployment of Prodigy’s “transportable nuclear power plants” (TNPPs) in Canada by 2030. Prodigy’s goal is to build marine-based nuclear power plants that are compatible with different end uses and reactor suppliers. What the plants would have in common is offshore siting close to an end user, which could include offshore oil and gas platforms, commercial seaports, mining operations, remote communities, and desalination plants.
Technical Session|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|3:15–4:55PM CDT|Atlantis/Discovery/Columbia (Marriott)
Session Chair:
Andrew L. Presby
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Harold Gerrish
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Modular Assembled Radiators for Nuclear Electric Population (NEP) VehicLes (MARVL) Project - Update
3:15–3:21PM CDT
Amanda Stark (NASA Langley Research Center), Will Grier (NASA Langley Research Center)
Paper
Applications of an Electrostatic Mesh in Nuclear Propulsion Techniques
3:21–3:27PM CDT
Grace E. Bittlingmaier (Beam Alpha Inc.)
Exploration of Regenerative Cooling for High-Power Adiabatic Electric Thrusters
3:27–3:33PM CDT
Kaylin V. Borders (Cornell University), Elaine Petro (Cornell University)
Preliminary Considerations on BANTER: A European Project on Innovative Ammonia Bimodal Nuclear Rocket
3:33–3:39PM CDT
Elia Puccinelli (Univ. Pisa), Valerio Giusti (Univ. Pisa), Angelo Pasini (Univ. Pisa)
Applying Past Space Reactor Lessons Towards Antares
3:39–3:45PM CDT
Kevin Makinson (Antares), Matthew Griffin (Antares), Hassan Safieddine (Antares), Aaron She (Antares)
ASTM Standard for Safe Operating Practices In-Space for Space Fission Reactors Used for Nuclear Power and Propulsion
3:45–3:51PM CDT
Randy Bell (The Aerospace Corporation), Alex Gilbert (Zeno Power), Donald Helton (NASA Headquarters)
Nonproliferation Considerations for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems
3:51–3:57PM CDT
Kathleen A. Doty (PNNL)
Oscillating Heat Pipes for Space Nuclear Power
3:57–4:03PM CDT
Alex Miller (ThermAvant Technologies)
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