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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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April 26–30, 2015
2015 International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2015)
Sun Valley, ID|Sun Valley Resort
April 19–23, 2015
ANS Mathematics & Computation (M&C) 2015 & Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and Monte Carlo (MC)
Nashville, TN|Sheraton Music City
April 12–17, 2015
10th International Conference on the Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC X)
Kailua-Kona, HI|Sheraton Keauhou Bay
April 12–16, 2015
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management
Real World Solutions for Integrated Management of Used Fuel and HLW
Charleston, SC|Charleston Marriott
April 9–11, 2015
2015 ANS Student Conference
Powering Tomorrow Together
College Station, TX|Texas A&M University
March 29–April 1, 2015
Advances In Nuclear Fuel Management V
Hilton Head, SC|Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort
February 23–26, 2015
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) 2015
Albuquerque, NM|Albuquerque Marriott
February 22–26, 2015
9th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2015)
Racing to Improved Cost-Effective Plant Operation
Charlotte, NC|The Westin Charlotte
February 1–4, 2015
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education (CONTE 2015)
Jacksonville, FL|Hyatt Regency Jacksonville-Riverfront
December 14–18, 2014
10th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-10)
Okinawa, Japan|Okinawa Convention Center
December 8–10, 2014
9th Nuclear Plants Current Issues Symposium: Moving Forward
Charlotte, NC|Downtown Marriott
November 9–13, 2014
2014 ANS Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo
Nuclear-The Foundation of Clean Energy
Anaheim, CA|Disneyland Hotel
September 28–October 3, 2014
International Topical Meeting on Advances in Reactor Physics (PHYSOR 2014)
Kyoto, Japan|Westin Kyoto Hotel
September 14–19, 2014
4th International Nuclear Chemistry Congress (4th INCC)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
September 14–18, 2014
Topical Meeting of the ANS Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (RPSD 2014)
Knoxville, TN|Hilton Knoxville
September 7–12, 2014
Plutonium Futures - The Science 2014
Las Vegas, NV|Renaissance Hotel
August 24–28, 2014
8th International Conference on Isotopes (8ICI) and Expo
Chicago, IL|Hyatt Regency Chicago
August 10–13, 2014
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo
Cost-Effective Excellence
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Plantation
June 15–19, 2014
2014 ANS Annual Meeting
The U.S. Role in a Global Nuclear Energy Enterprise
Reno, NV|Grand Sierra Resort
May 18–23, 2014
15th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry
Aix-en-Provence, France
