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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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A webinar, and a new opportunity to take ANS’s CNP Exam
Applications are now open for the fall 2025 testing period for the American Nuclear Society’s Certified Nuclear Professional (CNP) exam. Applications are being accepted through October 14, and only three testing sessions are offered per year, so it is important to apply soon. The test will be administered from November 12 through December 16. To check eligibility and schedule your exam, click here.
In addition, taking place tomorrow (September 19) from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. (CDT), ANS will host a new webinar, “How to Become a Certified Nuclear Professional.” More information is available below in this article.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT|Banyan C
Session Chair:
Todd Allen (Univ. Michigan)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kuhika Gupta (Univ. Oklahoma)
In the past, siting used nuclear fuel facilities has been challenging in the US. A common thread in previous efforts relates to the role of potential host communities (PHCs) to engage during the siting process. Traditionally, siting programs have not enabled community members to meaningfully shape what it is that they are being asked to host. The facility design is typically predetermined, shaped by program goals and regulatory requirements. Therefore, when consent is sought, community representatives have not been meaningfully engaged in conversations about the ways in which variations in design can - while meeting or exceeding regulatory requirements - better match community identity and aspirations. We posit that siting programs need to integrate more robust engagement with communities about the program and facility so that they are truly consent-based. This project is exploring a qualitatively different approach to engaging with PHCs about siting interim storage facilities (ISFs). This new approach engages with PHCs to participate in collaborative design ("co-design") of a prospective facility with project engineers and explore the implications of this new approach for potential decision-making and project outcomes. The panel will discuss ways in which the co-design approach has been developed and implemented in the project so far. Members of the core research team will utilize a roundtable discussion format to reflect on the prospective strengths of co-design for consent-based siting, and potential weaknesses. The discussion will also highlight strategies for deep collaborative research, spanning multiple disciplines. Finally, the panel will present some key results from surveys and workshops conducted and steps for future research.
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