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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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August 5–8, 2007
Utility Working Conference
The Future Begins Now
Amelia Island, FL
July 30–August 2, 2007
Eighth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications and Utilization of Accelerators (AccApp'07)
Pocatello, ID
June 24–28, 2007
Annual Meeting
It's All About the People: The Future of Nuclear
Boston, MA
June 3–8, 2007
13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES 2007)
Istanbul, Turkey
May 28–June 1, 2007
International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety (ICNC 2007)
St. Petersburg, Russia
May 14–16, 2007
2007 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP '07)
Nice, France
April 15–19, 2007
M&C + SNA 2007: Joint International Topical Meeting on Mathematics & Computations and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications
Monterey, CA
March 14–16, 2007
First International Conference on Physics and Technology of Reactors and Applications (PHYTRA1)
Marrakech City, Morocco
February 4–7, 2007
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE '07)
Jacksonville, FL