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Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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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.
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By uploading your presentation file(s), the author gives ANS permission to host and use the file(s) for the purpose of hosting the Virtual Annual Meeting. Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) presentation files will not be made available to attendees; only limited users (session chairs, organizers, ANS staff, and meeting admins) will have direct access to these files for the sole purpose of displaying/broadcasting the presentations for the meeting. Presentations should not have copyrighted material included, because the sessions will be recorded and viewable by meeting attendees at any time. The summary submitted for Transactions of the American Nuclear Society are subject to copyright and should not be shared without written permission from ANS and the author.
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Most presentations are allowed 20 minutes with a 5 minutes Q&A. Please contact your chair ahead of time for specifics on your session.
Yes, the PowerPoint Template is available on the Resources page.
Sign in to the ANS website and click this link: “Manage My Papers” in the left menu. Click the title of the correct paper, then scroll to the Attachments panel that will allow you to select the file type and upload the presentation to the platform.
We are allowing PDF, PPT, MP4, and links to external (e.g. YouTube, Vimeo) videos (for prerecorded videos).
The sessions will all take place live, but if a presenter cannot make their designated time, you may see part of a session prerecorded.
Yes, please note all sessions will be recorded and made available shortly after on the ANS site. Please contact meetings@ans.org if recording the session may cause any issues.
Yes, registrants will have access to all sessions. Please give ANS 24 hours after completion of session to post the recordings to the platform.
That is up to the author and the Session Chair. We recommend that each presenter share their screen and run their own presentation. Session Chairs, please be ready in case of an internet connection issue, power loss, etc.
There are two ways attendees will be able to ask questions; one option is to submit questions through the Q&A function and the other is to click the “raise your hand” button and the Session Chair can then unmute the attendee to ask the question. The chair of the session will announce how they are handling questions at the beginning of each session. If the session is run as a Zoom Meeting, the only option is to “raise your hand”; there will not be a chat or Q&A function.
Please contact meetings@ans.org and they will direct your question to the appropriate staff.
There will be a comments section on each session page of the meeting platform. Please feel free to browse the technical sessions!
There is no app for this meeting.
Yes, please contact meetings@ans.org for assistance. You will be responsible for sending us a list of all the sessions you’d like credit for.
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