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Division Spotlight
Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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High-temperature plumbing and advanced reactors
The use of nuclear fission power and its role in impacting climate change is hotly debated. Fission advocates argue that short-term solutions would involve the rapid deployment of Gen III+ nuclear reactors, like Vogtle-3 and -4, while long-term climate change impact would rely on the creation and implementation of Gen IV reactors, “inherently safe” reactors that use passive laws of physics and chemistry rather than active controls such as valves and pumps to operate safely. While Gen IV reactors vary in many ways, one thing unites nearly all of them: the use of exotic, high-temperature coolants. These fluids, like molten salts and liquid metals, can enable reactor engineers to design much safer nuclear reactors—ultimately because the boiling point of each fluid is extremely high. Fluids that remain liquid over large temperature ranges can provide good heat transfer through many demanding conditions, all with minimal pressurization. Although the most apparent use for these fluids is advanced fission power, they have the potential to be applied to other power generation sources such as fusion, thermal storage, solar, or high-temperature process heat.1–3
June 16–19, 2024
All In on Nuclear Deployment: The Stakes Have Never Been Higher
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
Thank you for participating in the 2024 ANS Annual Conference!
The Annual Conference TRANSACTIONS are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the TRANSACTIONS is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
You can also access the TRANSACTIONS by logging in to the ANS website. Then:
See what happened at our Annual Conference in these photos from the conference!
From the lobby, go through the casino, past the restaurants, food court and Aquarium then up 2 floors via elevator or escalator.
Monday, June 178:00–11:30AM
Jennifer M. GranholmSecretary,U.S. Department of Energy
Jeff LyashTennessee Valley Authority
Chris WomackSouthern Company
Michael GoffU.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy
Peter FreedFormerly Clean Energy Buyers Alliance and Meta
Adrian AndersonMicrosoft
Dr. Adam SteinBreakthrough Institute
Briana KoborGoogle
Tuesday Special Session: Our Friends the Isotopes | Tuesday, June 18 | 8:00–9:45AM
Catherine PratWestinghouse Electric Company
Riaz BandaliNordion
Ben Goodrich TerraPower LLC
Ross Radel, PhD, PESHINE Technologies
Harsh DesaiZeno Power
Alyse HuffmanU.S. Senate Staff Member
Thanks to a great paper submission turnout and our two embedded topical meetings, the 2024 ANS Annual Conference is expanding and moving to a larger venue – Mandalay Bay.
The venue change will allow more space for our technical sessions and great networking opportunities that bring together the nuclear community like no other meeting. To accommodate the change, we’re moving the conference to June 16-19, which is one week later than the original dates.
The two topical meetings, Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS) and International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP), will also take place June 16-19.
This year’s ANS Annual Conference promises to be an experience like no other. You can bet on it.
Questions? Contact meetings@ans.org.
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