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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 10, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EDT|10
Session Chair:
Douglas G. Bowen
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Kevin Reynolds (Consolidated Nuclear Security)
Staff Producers:
Patricia Schroeder (American Nuclear Society)
Kathryn Murdoch (American Nuclear Society)
Subcommittee ANS-8, Operations with Fissile Material Outside Reactors, meets to discuss various technical and administrative aspects of the approximately 20 national consensus standards under its purview. In addition to status and progress updates by representatives of individual working groups, formal presentations on the technical bases of numerical values such as subcritical limits and experiences with applications of particular standards are solicited. Agenda topics such as new and expanded standards are also encouraged.
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Reference — ANS-8 Forum Agenda
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