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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2025)
May 4–8, 2025
Huntsville, AL|Huntsville Marriott and the Space & Rocket Center
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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Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2025
Nuclear Technology
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Latest News
First concrete marks start of safety-related construction for Hermes test reactor
Kairos Power announced this morning that safety-related nuclear construction has begun at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., site where the company is building its Hermes low-power test reactor. Hermes, a scaled demonstration of Kairos Power’s fluoride salt–cooled, high-temperature reactor technology, became the first non–light water reactor to receive a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December 2023. The company broke ground at the site in July 2024.
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Panel|Jasmine G|Session Chair: Deborah A. Hill
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Jasmine G|Session Chair: Ben Martin
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Jasmine G|Session Chair: Catherine M. Percher
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT
Jasmine G|Cosponsored by FCWMD, RPD|Session Chair: Kelsey Amundson
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Panel|Jasmine G|Session Chair: Douglas G. Bowen
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT
Jasmine G|Session Chair: Ashley Raster
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT
Panel|Jasmine G|Session Chair: Kristan M. Wessels
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Jasmine G|Session Chair: Katy Worrell
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
