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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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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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An open letter to Chris Wright
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
Dear Secretary Wright:
On behalf of the U.S. nuclear professional community, I offer our sincere congratulations to you on your becoming the secretary of energy.
By now, I’m sure you have figured out that “Department of Energy” is a misnomer. If the Department of Government Efficiency ever requires truth in advertising, the DOE should be renamed the “Department of Nuclear Weapons, Security, Cleanup, and Sundry Energy and Science Programs.” That’s because more than 60 percent of the DOE’s budget is dedicated to “atomic energy defense activities”—making sure our nuclear bombs work, our aircraft carriers and submarines sail, and our Cold War messes get cleaned up.
Technical Session
Monday, October 4, 2021|1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Kostadin Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
K. Lisa Reed (Georgia Tech)
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A Simple Reactor Core Simulator Based on VTT's Kraken Computational Framework
1:20–1:45PM EDT
Ville Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Riku Tuominen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
Paper
Molten Salt Reactor Depletion Techniques in the ADDER Reactor Depletion and Fuel Management Analysis Code
1:45–2:10PM EDT
A. G. Nelson (ANL), G.J.Y. Chee (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), M. G. Jarrett (ANL)
Development of a General MPI Coupling Interface for Multi-Physics Analysis
2:10–2:35PM EDT
A. Abarca (NC State Univ.), M. Avramova (NC State Univ.), K. Ivanov (NC State Univ.)
Modernization of ORIGEN Library Creation in the SCALE Computer Code
2:35–3:00PM EDT
S. Hart (ORNL), W. Wieselquist (ORNL), A. Holcomb (ORNL)
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