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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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.
2021 ANS Winter Meeting and expo Plenary Session Speaker
Amir Vexler is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Orano USA—Orano’s operations in the United States providing commercial and federal customers with global expertise in nuclear materials management. Amir is also President of TN Americas, an Orano USA subsidiary.
Vexler oversees all five of Orano's business units in the U.S., including MCE for sales of uranium fuel, conversion and enrichment services; Orano Decommissioning Services for decommissioning nuclear energy facilities through its joint venture with NorthStar, named Accelerated Decommissioning Partners; TN Americas offering the full breadth of used nuclear fuel management (pool to pad, storage, transportation, and ISFSI management); Orano Med for the development of medical isotopes for targeted immunotherapy for fighting cancer; and Orano Federal Services offering the full complement of engineering and technology to solve some of the more complex nuclear material processing, conditioning and packaging for the U.S. Department of Energy.
With extensive international experience in the electric power industry, Amir’s career includes manufacturing, engineering services, commercial operations, and business development.
Prior to joining Orano in 2019, Amir’s leadership roles at Global Nuclear Fuel included chief executive officer, chairman of the board, chief operating officer, and vice president of Manufacturing/Supply Chain. Amir also held senior leadership positions with GE-Hitachi and the former GE Canada Nuclear Products.
Amir earned a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wilfrid Laurier University.
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