ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Division Spotlight
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.
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Mar 2025
Jan 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 2025
Nuclear Technology
April 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|12:30–2:15PM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chairs:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU)
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Alternate Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Aaron S. Epiney (INL)
This session will include presentations of the technical papers listed below, and the winner of NISD's 2021 Tommy Thompson award, Karl Fleming, will be recognized for his outstanding contributions to the enhancement of nuclear installations safety.
To access the session recording, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Reliability of Cascade Failure of Heat Pipes in Micro Modular Reactors
12:35–12:55PM EST
Eunseo So (INL), Man Cheol Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Paper
Pathway to Resolving Gaps in Advanced Reactor Mechanistic Source Term
12:55–1:15PM EST
Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), David Grabaskas (ANL)
Enabling Nuclear Deployment in Locations Without Robust Regulatory Institutions Through Technology-Enhanced Regulatory Frameworks
1:15–1:35PM EST
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical)
Task Analysis for Human Reliability Analysis of Startup and Shutdown Operation
1:35–1:55PM EST
Woo Seok Jo (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science and Technology), Seung Jun Lee (Ulsan Nat'l Institute of Science & Technology)
There is 1 comment in this discussion.
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
