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Division Spotlight
Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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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.
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2024 (PBNC)
Gary Wolski served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power program, supported the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission at Hanford in nuclear power operations and maintenance engineering, and was a contractor supporting civil nuclear power plant outages. For the last twenty-eight years, he has been with Curtiss-Wright, working in the Nuclear Division in positions of increasing levels of responsibility in Sales, Marketing and Management. Gary is currently a Vice President in Curtiss-Wright’s Nuclear Division with responsibilities to grow Curtiss-Wright’s nuclear business.
Mr. Wolski has served six charters on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) where he previously served as Chair, Vice Chair, and Subcommittee Chair twice. He currently serves as Chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI) Supplier Advisory Committee and is a past chair of NEI’s Trade Advocacy Subcommittee.
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