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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.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
December 10, 2019 Update
Dear ANS Member:
I hope this message finds you well headed into the holiday season. As you know, the Board of Directors approved ANS Change Plan 2020 at the November meeting in Washington, DC. Here is the link to the plan, with notes in red detailing the Board's actions. A summary of the plan is also available for viewing.
Guided by the plan, staff and I have begun a thorough review of ANS operations with the goal of creating a more streamlined, less siloed organization that is better equipped to meet our members' needs going forward.
While the review is ongoing, I can say that I am encouraged by our team's willingness to think differently and adopt a more service-oriented and entrepreneurial culture.
I look forward to providing you with more information when we conclude the review in early February.
In the meantime, your continued input is important to us. Please do not hesitate to send comments and suggestions to anschangeplan2020@ans.org.
All the best,
Craig PiercyANS Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer
Advocacy and Fundraising
ANS advocacy activities attract increasing amounts of philanthropic support
Commercial Publications
Commercial Publications redesigned to communicate industry and technical information of value (while minimizing cost)
Communications
ANS internal communications to members are effective (and efficient)
Constituent unit interactions and communications with/to “the world” are aligned with each other and ANS National
Congressional Fellow Program
Congressional Fellow Program establishes ANS as go-to and influential asset for policymakers
Finance
Significant spending decisions align with society priorities
Increased speed for good ideas to be funded and implemented
Improved efficiency in student support
Improved efficiency and flexibility in scholarship administration
Governance
The Board of Directors and Officers are effective as strategic leaders and stewards of the Society
ANS governance is more effective
ANS committee structure is more simple, efficient, and effective
ANS Staff is more influential and accountable
Meetings
Topical Meetings redesigned to attract / reach more members, reduce financial risk, and improve finances
Content of national meetings redesigned to provide increased value to more members
Logistics of national meetings redesigned to reduce financial risk/variance
Membership
Organization membership program is utilized as a strategic vehicle to expand membership and strengthen ANS
Meetings are used to convert more non-ANS member attendees to ANS members.
Increased reliability and amount of revenue through member dues
Organizational Unity (“1ANS”)
Unity, community, and alignment among members at every level and each constituent unit of ANS
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