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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
Thursday, October 7, 2021|8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair:
Andrew Holcomb (ORNL)
Session Organizers:
Benoit Forget (MIT)
William Wieselquist (ORNL)
Student Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Multigroup Material Cross-Sections Generation With SCALE 6.2.3 for Deterministic Neutron Transport Calculations: Application to a PWR Fuel Element Analysis
8:30–8:55AM EDT
Antonella Labarile (Universitat Politecnica Valencia), Arturo Vivancos (Universitat Politècnica València), Alvaro Bernal (Nuclear Safety Council), Teresa Barrachina (Universitat Politècnica València), Rafael Miró (Universitat Politècnica de València), Gumersindo Verdu (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia)
Paper
Best Estimate Schemes in Lattice Calculations for Industrial Cases, With the Help of a New Leakage Synthetic Algorithm
8:55–9:20AM EDT
B. Vezzoni (Framatome), S. Santandrea (CEA), L. Graziano (Framatome), I. Zmijarevic (CEA)
A Group-Dependent Equivalent Dancoff Factor Cell Method Applied to AIC Control Rod Calculations
9:20–9:45AM EDT
Li Mao (CEA), Igor Zmijarevic (CEA), Richard Sanchez (CEA), Nicolas Gerard Castaing (CEA)
Fuel Assembly Analyses With Resonance Calculation Using Energy Spectrum Expansion Method
9:45–10:10AM EDT
Ryoichi Kondo (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.), Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Satoshi Takeda (Osaka University), Hiroki Koike (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Kazuya Yamaji (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), Daisuke Sato (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
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