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Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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West Virginia couple use ANS Geiger counters for nuclear education
Husband-and-wife team Timothy Adkins and Ann Gibeaut are using Geiger counters supplied by the American Nuclear Society to educate young people in West Virginia about nuclear science and ionizing radiation. In 2022, ANS donated some old nonfunctioning Geiger counters to Tim and Ann, who recalibrated them and got them working again.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|8:00–9:45AM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
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Development of Principal Design Criteria of the Fast Modular Reactor
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
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A Simple Program to Estimate the Fast Modular Reactor Steady-State Closed Brayton Cycle Operating Parameters
Chun Fu (General Atomics), Matthew Virgen (General Atomics), Hangbok Choi (General Atomics), Robert W. Schleicher (General Atomics), John Bolin (General Atomics)
Thermal-Fluidic Safety Related Phenomena Identification for Horizontally Oriented Micro-HTGRs
T-Ying Lin (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Richard Schultz (Idaho State), Masahiro Kawaji (City College of New York), Donald E. McEligot (Kansas State)
MELCOR Model Development of the General Atomics Fast Modular Reactor
Cole Dunbar (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Jun Wang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), WooHyun Jung (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Michael Corradini (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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