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Division Spotlight
Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)
With more than 30 years of experience in both academia and industrial research, Dr. Yang is a recognized expert in reactor thermal-hydraulics and nuclear safety, advanced fuel design and qualification, rod bundle CHF and multiphase flow measurements, subchannel analysis, CFD simulation, acoustic wave propagation, online Real-Time Transient Modeling (RTTM), and leak detection in multiphase flow pipelines. Dr. Yang began serving as Director at Columbia University’s Heat Transfer Research Facility (CU-HTRF) from 1993 to 2002. He served as senior exclusive advisor for Westinghouse/ABB/Toshiba group from 2002 to 2012. From 2012 to 2017, Dr. Yang was appointed as a professor and the Dean of the School of Nuclear Science and Technology at Xian Jiaotong University (XJTU) in China. Dr. Yang also served as the Chief Scientist of CGN, China (2012 to 2018). During his professional career he has provided technical advice to various industrial, government, and academic institutions, including Aramco (Saudi), CNNC, CNPC, Ecopetrol, INER (Taiwan), KNFC (Korea), Kurchatov Institute (Russia), Mitsubishi (Japan), NPIC (China), Petrobras (Brazil), Shell (Nigeria), SINOPEC, Taiwan Power, USDOE, Westinghouse. He is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder (2019) of Delta Energy Group in New York (DEGNY) and Qingdao (DEQD). He also serves as the director of DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer (DiAME). With over 300 publications and patents, Dr. Yang has served as the Chief Guest Editor for NED, NSE, NT, STNI, and Kerntechnik, and has been serving in the Editorial Board of NED since 2015. As the TPC Chair, Dr. Yang successfully organized the 1st and 2nd International Seminar on Subchannel Analysis-CHF and CFD (ISACC) in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In 2018, as the TPC Co-Chair, he helped to expand ISACC to IS-ReCTHA to include various topics on reactor core thermalhydraulics. In 2017, as TPC Chair, Dr. Yang successfully organized NURETH-17 with over 800 papers and 1,000 participants. Dr. Yang also organized/co-organized over 30 other international conferences and workshops, and he was the invited keynote speaker for several international conferences. In 2022, he was the General Co-Chair of NUTHOS-13 and Steer Committee Co-Chair for NURETH-19. Currently, he also serves as the General Co-Chair for three different international conferences: NURETH-20 (2023, Washington DC), NUTHOS-14 (2024, Vancouver), and ATH-2024 (Orlando, FL).
Dr. Yang was awarded NURETH Fellow (2019), the Excellent in Review Award (2021), and the highest technical achievement award from ANS THD, TAA (2022). He is the current Chair of ANS-THD (2022-2023).
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