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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
November 7–11, 2010
Nuclear Progress!
Las Vegas, Nevada|Riviera Hotel
Pre-registration is closed; please register onsite.
General Chair:
Alvin W. Trivelpiece (Consultant)
Assistant General Chair:
Raymond H. Gabaldon III (Sandia National Laboratories)
Technical Program Chair:
Dr. Charles R. (Chip) Martin (Senior Engineer, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board)
Assistant Program Chair:
Charlotta E. Sanders (Principal Nuclear Engineer, Westinghouse Electric Company)
Embedded Topical Meeting
Dr. Farrokh Najmabadi (Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California-San Diego)
Program Chair:
Dr. Shahram S. Sharafat (Adjunct Professor of Enegineering, University of California- Los Angeles)
General Chairs:
Joseph Naser (Electric Power Research Institute)
John O'Hara (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Technical Program Chairs:
Alireza Haghighat (University of Florida)
Hash Hashemian (AMS Corporation)
Douglas Hill (AREVA NP)
Poong Hyun Seong (KAIST, Korea / KUSTAR, UAE)
Honorary Chair:
Dr. Peter Lyons (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy)
J. David Robertson (University of Missouri Research Reactor Center)
General Co-Chairs:
Mauro Bonardi (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Robert W. Atcher (University of New Mexico, Bioscience Div)
Rolf Zeisler (National Institute of Standards and Technology)