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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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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
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The Oak Ridger has published the latest in a series of articles about General Kenneth D. Nichols, the Manhattan Project, and the 1954 Atomic Energy Act. The series has been produced by Nichols’ grandniece Barbara Rogers Scollin and Oak Ridge (Tenn.) city historian David Ray Smith. Gen. Nichols (1907–2000) was the district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District during the Manhattan Project.
As Smith and Scollin explain, Nichols “had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction, and operation of, all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. The responsibility of his position was massive as he oversaw a workforce of both military and civilian personnel of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office became the center of the wartime atomic energy’s activities.”
Technical Session
Monday, November 8, 2021|10:10AM–12:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Luca Podofillini (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Alternate Chair:
Gopika Vinod (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)
Session Producers:
John Greenwood
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Defining Dependency in HRA
10:10–10:40AM EST
Vincent P. Paglioni (Univ. of Maryland), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. of Maryland)
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Characterizing Human Performance: Detecting Targets at High False Alarm Rates.
10:40–11:10AM EST
Ann Speed (Sandia), Jason Wheeler (Sandia), John Russell (Sandia), Fred Oppel (Sandia), Danielle N. Sanchez (Sandia), Austin Silva (Sandia), Anna Chavez (Sandia)
Extracting Human Reliability Findings From Human Factors Studies in the Human Systems Simulation Laboratory
11:10–11:40AM EST
Heather Medema (INL), Jeremy Mohon (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
Basis for Generic Approach to Human Failure Event Dependent Combination Identification
11:40AM–12:10PM EST
Don MacLeod (Jensen Hughes), Huafei Liao (X-Energy)
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