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Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
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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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Technical Session|Markets, Financing, and Economics
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Palm D
Session Chair:
Ben Lindley (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
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Alternate Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Cost Assessment of Small Modular Reactors for Various Technologies in the IAEA Economic Database
1:00–1:20PM PDT
S. Cathalau (Atomic Energy Commission), O. Mignone (Politecnico di Milano), L. Martinez Sancho (Kairos Power), T. Shibata (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), S. Dardour (IAEA)
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Factors for Competitive Decentralized Hydrogen Production with Nuclear Microreactors
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Emile Germonpre (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST), John Parsons (MIT), Ruaridh Macdonald (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Options for Achieving Cost Reduction in Advanced Reactors Through Open Architecture
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Daniel Lamb (Univ. Cambridge), Tony Roulstone (Univ. Cambridge), Ian Prado (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Tracy Becker (Univ. California, Berkeley), Nahuel Guaita (INL), Sunming Qin (INL), Andrew W. Foss (INL), Ian Woodhouse (Terra Praxis), Eric Ingersoll (Terra Praxis)
Design for Cost Methodology Applied to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors
2:00–2:20PM PDT
L. Venneri (MIT), K. Shirvan (MIT)
Multi-Objective Site Selection for Coal to Nuclear Power Plant Transition
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Omer F. Erdem (Univ. Michigan), Majdi I. Radaideh (Univ. Michigan)
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