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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.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
Nichols
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.”
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10:00–11:50AM CDT
Senate A/B
Session Chair: Brian Grierson|Alternate Chair: Lauren M. Garrison
Assembly
Session Chair: Andrew G. Sowder|Alternate Chair: Ben Lindley
University Room AB
Session Chair: Dina Yuryev|Alternate Chair: Paul W. Humrickhouse
Madison Ballroom
Session Chair: Sunday C. Aduloju|Alternate Chair: Iole Palermo
1:00–2:50PM CDT
Session Chair: Rosaria Villari|Alternate Chair: Iole Palermo
Session Chair: Arnold Lumsdaine|Alternate Chair: Ross F. Radel
Session Chair: Tyler Guin|Alternate Chair: Paul W. Humrickhouse
3:15–5:05PM CDT
Session Chair: Iole Palermo|Alternate Chair: Ethan Peterson
Session Chair: Ross F. Radel|Alternate Chair: Gerald Kulcinski
Session Chair: Charles Hirst|Alternate Chair: Lauren M. Garrison
Session Chair: Stephanie Diem|Alternate Chair: Paul P. Wilson
5:00–7:00PM CDT
Wisconsin Ballroom
Session Chair: Paul P. Wilson|Alternate Chair: Ross F. Radel
Session Chair: Lauren M. Garrison|Alternate Chair: Charles Hirst
Session Chair: Jonathan E. Menard|Alternate Chair: Ben Lindley
Session Chair: Michael J. Loughlin|Alternate Chair: Iole Palermo
Session Chair: Andrea Saltos|Alternate Chair: Michael J. Loughlin
Session Chair: Susana Reyes|Alternate Chair: Pierre-Clément A. Simon
Session Chair: Jun Ren|Alternate Chair: Minami Yoda
Session Chair: Thomas Fuerst|Alternate Chair: Sara Ferry
Session Chair: Lauren M. Garrison
8:00–9:50AM CDT
Session Chair: Monica Gehrig|Alternate Chair: Juliana Pacheco Duarte
Session Chair: Diana Grandas|Alternate Chair: Paul P. Wilson
Session Chair: Trey Gebhart|Alternate Chair: Michael Loughlin
10:15AM–12:05PM CDT
Session Chair: Kate Borowiec|Alternate Chair: Ethan Peterson
Session Chair: Paul W. Humrickhouse|Alternate Chair: Lane Carasik
Session Chair: Pierre-Clément A. Simon|Alternate Chair: Junliang Liu
1:15–3:05PM CDT
Session Chair: Fernando Arranz|Alternate Chair: Lane B. Carasik
Session Chair: Heena Mutha|Alternate Chair: Thomas Fuerst
Session Chair: Paul P. Wilson|Alternate Chair: Stephanie Diem
