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Division Spotlight
Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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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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 2–5, 2011
2011 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '11)
Nice, France
April 10–14, 2011
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Albuquerque, NM|Albuquerque Marriott
April 5–7, 2011
5th Joint Symposium on Computational Cancer Research
Houston, TX|University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
April 3–7, 2011
Tenth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators (AccApp '11)
Knoxville, TN|Hilton Knoxville
March 13–18, 2011
13th International Conference on Modern Trends in Activation Analysis (MTAA-13)
College Station, TX|College Station Hilton
March 13–17, 2011
International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2011)
Wilmington, North Carolina|Hilton Wilmington Riverside
February 7–10, 2011
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space 2011 (NETS 2011)
February 6–9, 2011
CONTE 2011 and Technology Expo
Jacksonville, FL|Hyatt Regency
November 7–11, 2010
2010 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo
Nuclear Progress!
Las Vegas, Nevada|Riviera Hotel
October 24–29, 2010
9th International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (TRITIUM - 2010)
Nara, Japan
October 18–20, 2010
5th International Conference on High Temperature Reactor Technology (HTR 2010)
Prague, Czech Republic
October 17–20, 2010
Joint International Conference of Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications and Monte Carlo (SNA + MC 2010)
Tokyo, Japan
October 10–14, 2010
8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety
Shanghai, China
September 26–29, 2010
2010 LWR Fuel Performance Meeting / Top Fuel / WRFPM
Orlando, FL|Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel
September 19–23, 2010
Plutonium Futures - "The Science" - 2010
Keystone, CO|Keystone Resort & Conference Center
August 29–September 2, 2010
DD&R 2010
Idaho Falls, ID
August 8–13, 2010
ASME International Heat Transfer Conference (IHTC-14)
Washington, DC|Omni Shoreham Hotel
August 8–11, 2010
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo
"People Achieving Excellence"
Amelia Island, FL|Amelia Island Plantation
June 13–17, 2010
2010 ANS Annual Meeting
Nuclear Science and Technology - The Right Fit. The Right Time
San Diego, CA|Town & Country Hotel & Resort
June 7–10, 2010
MANTG Instructor Workshop
Gettysburg, PA
