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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
2021 CONTE Virtual Meeting Plenary Session Speaker
Kos Dovas is the Vice President of Training at Exelon Generation located in Warrenville, Illinois. Mr. Dovas is accountable for safe, effective and efficient implementation of the Training Programs across Exelon’s fleet of twelve Nuclear Power Plants. This includes responsibility for the governance and oversight of Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Chemistry, Radiation Protection and General Worker training programs as well as oversight of successful Accreditation Renewal and Nuclear Regulatory Commission operator licensing processes.
Mr. Dovas joined Exelon in 1997 and has held various positions in operations, site training leadership, corporate training oversight and has served as an Accreditation Team Leader at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO). Most recently before assuming his current role in 2019, Mr. Dovas served as the Director of Fleet Nuclear training.
Mr. Dovas serves as the chairperson for the Nuclear Energy Institute’s Licensed Operator Focus Group which interfaces with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on matters of operator licensing on behalf of the industry and is also a member of the Excelsior College Nuclear Engineering Technology Industry Advisory Committee.
Mr. Dovas holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Technology, an AAS degree Electrical/Electronic Automated Systems and a PWR Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) certification at Braidwood Station.
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