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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
William (Bill) Robert Kimel was elected President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) in 1978. He served in many position of ANS including the Education, Executive, Planning and Steering Committees since 1958 and was a member of the Board of Directors from 1973- 1976. He was named a Fellow of ANS in 1969.
He was a pioneer in nuclear engineering education. He was born on May 2, 1922. From 1946-1958, Dr. Kimel taught at Kansas State and also served as head of the university’s nuclear engineering department from 1958-1968. He organized and headed what would become the first accredited nuclear engineering department in the United States.
In 1969, he moved to the University of Missouri-Columbia, and served there as dean of the engineering department until 1986. He was named dean emeritus and professor emeritus of nuclear engineering upon his retirement.
In addition to his career in education, Dr. Kimel’s experience included industrial work as an engineer for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Boeing Airplane, Westinghouse Electric Company, U.S. Forest Products Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.
Dr. Kimel participated in two Geneva Atoms for Peace Conferences as a delegate of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1964 and as a representative/reporter in 1971. In 1981, he was given the Bliss Award for the most outstanding contribution to military engineering education, or for promoting recognition of the importance of technical leadership in the National Defense establishment.
He holds a B.S. (1944) and an M.S. (1949) in mechanical engineering from Kansas State, and a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1956.
Dr. William Kimel passed away on December 5, 2002.
Read Nuclear News from July 1978 for more on William R. Kimel.
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