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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
2022 ANS Annual Meeting
Senior Policy Fellow
Argonne National Laboratory
Mr. Dickman is a Senior Policy Fellow with Argonne National Laboratory in Washington DC.
He has held senior managerial positions at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Early in his career he managed environmental research projects in remediating of nuclear weapons testing areas, and disposal of highly radioactive materials. He also managed waste characterization and transportation programs for the Waste Isolation Pilot Project and served as principal technical advisor to the Director for the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste.
He is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Nuclear and Radiation Sciences Board, holds leadership positions in the American Nuclear Society, and is the President Elect of the World Council on Isotopes. He serves as an advisor to the Japanese Government on the decommissioning of the Fukushima accident site.
Mr. Dickman received his M.S. in Natural Sciences in Nuclear Chemistry and Physics from the University of Wyoming, and his B.A. in History (of Science) from the University of Denver.
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