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Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
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Staff Liaison
Kenneth Petersen
President of KSP Consulting
Lisa Marshall
Director of Outreach, Retention, and Engagement and an Assistant Extension Professor for Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University
Harsh Desai
Chief Commercialization Officer at Zeno Power
Kelsey Amundson
R&D engineer in advanced nuclear technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mark Peters
Executive Vice President for Laboratory Operations at Battelle
Temitope Taiwo
Director of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory
Leigh Winfrey
Dean of the School of Engineering at Maritime College, State University of New York
Han Gyu Joo
(Non-U.S. at-large member) Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea
Katy Worrell
(Student Director) Graduate Student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville