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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.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) SPeaker
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Prof. Narabayashi graduated the master course of Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), and entered Toshiba Corporation in 1978. He got a doctor degree in 1991 from Tokyo Tech. He was the Chief Specialist of Reactor Components and Two-Phase Flow in Toshiba Corp.
He moved to the Hokkaido University in 2005. He was given awards from the AESJ in 1988 and 2002, and from the JSME in 2005, 2022 and 2023.
He has been involved in an advisory meeting member of NISA with regard to technical lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP accidents, and also safety counter measure evaluation member of NRA.
He became a director of the AESJ in July 2012. Since 2013, he has served as a member of the Nuclear Education Panel at King Khalifa University in the UAE, and in 2018 was awarded the Outstanding Professor of the Year Award by the Information System for Radiation Exposure (ISOE), which is jointly operated by the IAEA and OECD/NEA.
He became a specially appointed professor at Tokyo Tech in 2018, and also serves as the President of a Tokyo Tech venture, GX Energy ltd, since 2022.
He received the Contribution Award from the JSME in 2023 for leading the implementation of filtered containment venting systems using organic iodine removal filters in Japan.
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