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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
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
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James S. Tulenko
2021
Mark W. Noakes
2016
Frank M. Heckendorn, II
2014
William R. Hamel
2011
Norbert R. Grant
2008
Barry L. Burks
2006
Clyde R. Ward
2004
Paul Bacca
2001
Andy Lethco
1999
Howard W. Harvey
1997
Joseph S. Byrd
1995
Charles Divona
1994
C. Harry Youngquist
1993
Gerald A. Eisert
1992
John R. White
1991
Robert W. Wiesener
1990
Melvin J. Feldman
1989
Karl E. Neumeier
1988
Donald F. Melton
1987
William M. Thompson
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