ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Apr 2025
Jan 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 2025
Nuclear Technology
April 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Norway’s Halden reactor takes first step toward decommissioning
The government of Norway has granted the transfer of the Halden research reactor from the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) to the state agency Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND). The 25-MWt Halden boiling water reactor operated from 1958 to 2018 and was used in the research of nuclear fuel, reactor internals, plant procedures and monitoring, and human factors.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301B
Session Chair:
Linyu Lin
Alternate Chair:
Junyung Kim
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
To access session resources, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Linyu Lin
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Joseph Oncken
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Tim Nguyen
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees) — Kyle Warns
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Adaptive Data-Driven Model Predictive Control for Heat Pipe Microreactors
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Linyu Lin (INL), Benjamin Zastrow (Univ. Texas, Austin), Joseph Oncken (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Paper
Adaptive Model Predictive Control for Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactors Under Normal and Heat Pipe Failure Conditions
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Joseph Oncken (INL), Linyu Lin (INL), Vivek Agarwal (INL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Design and Prototyping of Diagnostic Methods to Support Autonomous Operations of Advanced Reactors
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Tat Nghia Nguyen (ANL), Akshay J. Dave (ANL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Richard B. Vilim (ANL)
An Interpretation of the Bellman Equation for Risk-Informed Decision Making
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Kyle Warns (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Asad Ullah Amin Shah (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Junyung Kim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
