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Division Spotlight
Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Meeting Spotlight
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2025)
May 4–8, 2025
Huntsville, AL|Huntsville Marriott and the Space & Rocket Center
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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Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2025
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U.S. nuclear capacity factors: Stability and energy dominance
Nuclear generation has inertia. Massive spinning turbines keep electricity flowing during grid disturbances. But nuclear generation also has a kind of inertia that isn’t governed by the laws of motion.
Starting—and then finishing—a power reactor construction project requires significant upfront effort and money, but once built a reactor can run for decades. Capacity factors of U.S. reactors have remained near 90 percent since the turn of the century, but it took more than a decade of improvements to reach that steady state. The payoff for nuclear investments is long-term and reliable.
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May 12–17, 2013
Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (NURETH-15)
Pisa, Italy
May 5–9, 2013
Mathematics & Computation 2013
Sun Valley, ID|Sun Valley Resort
April 28–May 2, 2013
2013 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management (2013 IHLRWM)
Integrating Storage, Transportation, and Disposal
Albuquerque, NM|Albuquerque Marriott
April 14–18, 2013
2013 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '13)
Jeju Island, Korea
April 15–17, 2013
International Topical PSAM Meeting in Tokyo: The Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident
Tokyo, Japan
April 7–11, 2013
Decommissioning Challenges, an Industrial Reality and Prospects
Avignon, France
February 25–28, 2013
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space 2013 (NETS 2013)
February 3–6, 2013
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE 2013)
Jacksonville, FL|Hyatt Regency Jacksonville-Riverfront
January 23–25, 2013
8th Nuclear Plants Current Issues Symposium: Challenges & Opportunities
Orlando, FL
November 11–15, 2012
2012 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo
Future Nuclear Technologies: Resilience and Flexibility
San Diego, CA|Town & Country Hotel & Resort
October 22–25, 2012
CIRMS 2012 (Confidence Through Tracability)
Washington, DC|NIST
September 23–28, 2012
9th International Conference on Facility Operations-Safeguards Interface (ICFO-SI)
Savannah, GA|Hilton Savannah DeSoto
September 24–27, 2012
NPC 2012 (Nuclear Plant Chemistry Conference)
Paris, France|Paris Tour Eiffel Novotel Convention Center
September 16–21, 2012
EuCheMS International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry (NRC-8)
Como (Cernobbio), Italy|Grand Hotel di Como
September 9–13, 2012
9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-9)
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan|Garden Villa Kaohsiung
September 2–7, 2012
International Conference on Radiation Shielding - 12 / RPSD 2012
Nara, Japan
September 2–6, 2012
TOP Fuel 2012
Manchester, UK
August 27–31, 2012
20th Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Nashville, TN|Hutton Hotel
August 5–8, 2012
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo
Nuclear - Still the One! The Right Business - The Right Results - The Right Way Forward
Hollywood, FL|Westin Diplomat
July 22–26, 2012
8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC & HMIT 2012)
Enabling the Future of Nuclear Energy
San Diego, CA|Westin San Diego
