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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 17, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Session Chair:
Zhouxiang Fei (University of Strathclyde)
Alternate Chair:
Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble (University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Staff Producer:
Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
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Trends for Field Programmable Gate Array Technology and Implications for Safety Critical Applications in Nuclear Power Plants
Mark Burzynski (SunPort), Sean Kelley (SunPort)
Paper
An Isolation Design Strategy for Implementing Secure and Safety-Critical Applications in FPGA
Abhi D. Rajagopala (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Smitha Gautham (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carl Elks (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Safety Instrumentation and Control Technologies for Small Modular Reactors and Advanced Reactors
Arnaud Duthou (Rolls-Royce Civil Nuclear)
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Safety-Related Instrumentation and Control Pilot Upgrade: Initial Scoping Phase Implementation and Lessons Learned
Paul Hunton (INL), Robert England (INL), Gerald Segner (Exelon Generation), Mark Samselski (Exelon Generation), David Herrell (MPR Assoc.), William Jessup (MPR Assoc.), Sean Lawrie (ScottMadden Inc.), Mike Kerrigan (ScottMadden Inc.)
Potential Use of Thinklogical's KVM Technology in Safety Applications
Richard Turk (Technology Resources), Richard Cooper (Thinklogical), James Gleason (GLSEQ), David Herrell (MPR Assoc.)
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