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Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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Prepare for the 2025 Nuclear PE Exam with ANS guides
The next opportunity to earn professional engineer (PE) licensure in nuclear engineering is this fall, and now is the time to sign up and begin studying with the help of materials like the online module program offered by the American Nuclear Society.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Andrew Whittaker (SUNY Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo)
Alternate Chair:
Chandrakanth Bolisetti (Senior Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory)
Session Organizer:
For the United States to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, we will need to deploy nuclear power plants at an unprecedented speed and scale. Construction of nuclear power plants has been challenging in the recent decades - schedule delays, cost overruns, among other factors, impeded the widely-anticipated "nuclear renaissance" and damaged industry confidence. Civil works amount to almost half the capital costs of nuclear power plant built in the past and are a major contributor to overruns. Without advances and civil engineering and construction methods of nuclear power plants, advanced nuclear construction will face the same barriers and urgent, large-scale deployment will be almost impossible. The goal of this panel session is to bring attention to the importance of civil engineering of nuclear plants and shed some light on ongoing development and much needed technological advances in this topic.
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