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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
Meeting Spotlight
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
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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EnergySolutions to help explore advanced reactor development in Utah
Utah-based waste management company EnergySolutions announced that it has signed a memorandum of understating with the Intermountain Power Agency and the state of Utah to explore the development of advanced nuclear power generation at the Intermountain Power Project (IPP) site near Delta, Utah.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Nuclear Power Plants
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Palm C
Session Chair:
Jacopo Buongiorno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alternate Chair:
Angel Vasquez (MIT)
Session Organizers:
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Kazuaki Kito (Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy)
Kyoung-Ho Kang (KAERI)
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Understanding the Effects of Gamma Radiation on the Chemical and Physical Characteristics of a Potential Candidate for Organic Cooled Reactors
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Angel Vasquez (MIT), Arunkumar Seshadri (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Paper
ESFR-SIMPLE Project: Towards a ESFR-SMR Design
3:35–3:55PM PDT
P. Sciora (CEA), A. Pantano (CEA), E. Fridman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), A. Ponomarev (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), P. Servell (EDF), D. Gérardin (EDF), E. Girardi (EDF), B. Farges (FRAMATOME), K. Mikityuk (Paul Scherrer Institute), A. Rineiski (KIT), J. Guidez (Nuclei Cogitum)
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Generic Sodium-Potassium-Cooled Thermal Microreactor Reference Design with Sizing-Burnup Tradeoff Study
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Samuel Garcia (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Samuel E. Bays (INL), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Develop by Embodiments: Managing Uncertainty in Reactor Conceptualization -- The MIGHTR from Boston Atomics
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Enrique Velez-Lopez (Boston Atomics), W. Robb Stewart (Boston Atomics)
Plant and Safety Features of Toshiba Innovative ABWR Plant iBR
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Yukitaka Yamazaki (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Keiji Matsumoto (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Takashi Sato (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions), Masayuki Niimi (Toshiba Energy Systems and Solutions)
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