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Division Spotlight
Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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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March 2025
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Latest News
ARG-US Remote Monitoring Systems: Use Cases and Applications in Nuclear Facilities and During Transportation
As highlighted in the Spring 2024 issue of Radwaste Solutions, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are developing and deploying ARG-US—meaning “Watchful Guardian”—remote monitoring systems technologies to enhance the safety, security, and safeguards (3S) of packages of nuclear and other radioactive material during storage, transportation, and disposal.
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2023)
Scott Hunnewell oversees the New Nuclear Program for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Areas of responsibility include licensing activities for Construction Permit Application and Environmental Report for the Clinch River Site; future site selection and technological evaluations of emerging technologies, in Generation IV Nuclear Plants. Since joining TVA in 2009, he has held positions in site engineering including Systems and Design Engineering as well as Engineering Director at Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant. Hunnewell has Operations and Work Management experience, was the Plant Manager at the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant and Vice President of Nuclear Engineering prior to his current role. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine. He is based in the Chattanooga, Tennessee office.
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