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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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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Report spotlights energy sector’s growing nuclear investment
As part of a broader series on the future of global energy markets, S&P Global has released a report on examining the growing interest in nuclear power as the solution to many of the problems the energy sector faces.
To read the full details and conclusions of the report, click here.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Sean Fournier is a nuclear engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Incident Response Program (NIRP). He received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2018. Sean started his career in 2010 working in the radiochemistry laboratory at Sandia. Sean has participated in several inter-agency working groups on nuclear incident response preparedness; most notably, the Department of Energy’s Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) Laboratory Analysis Working Group. This group is responsible for determining the methods, procedures, and training for sample control and analysis during a national-scale nuclear emergency. Sean is the current skillset leader for the Consequence Management Laboratory Analysis Unit and works toward maintaining readiness of the responders and the technology used by the team.
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