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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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What role can university research reactors play in a nuclear energy resurgence?
Corey Hines
Current and future decarbonization goals necessitate robust and reliable energy generation solutions with high capacity factors to serve as baseload sources of clean energy. Next-generation advanced reactor and small modular reactor designs have driven new technology, training regimes, and new reactor design and implementation of solutions associated with new design concepts and scale.
Research and teaching institutions like Washington State University are responding to help meet the needs of future nuclear research and development and fill in workforce gaps by preparing the next generation of workers in nuclear science and engineering. Domestic university research reactors provide an unparalleled teaching and training tool and are an R&D force multiplier for enhanced nuclear skillset development and training. Investing in research reactors and the important mission they serve benefits nuclear research both domestically and globally. Research reactors offer low-cost, safe, real-world job training and provide the experimentation platforms necessary to advance and meet demands of ongoing and future work in the nuclear sector that transcends traditional nuclear R&D.
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10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair: Jaakko Leppanen
Session Chair: Rodolfo Ferrer
Session Chair: Thomas M. Evans
Session Chair: Kendra Long
1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Tara Pandya
Session Chair: Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Kostadin Ivanov
Session Chair: Richard Vasques
3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Todd Palmer
Session Chair: Thomas Brunner
Session Chair: Aaron Olson
Session Chair: David Griesheimer
5:30–7:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Katherine Royston
Session Chair: Yaqi Wang
Session Chair: William Wieselquist
Session Chair: Jean Ragusa
Session Chair: Adam Nelson
Session Chair: Joshua Hykes
Session Chairs: Nicholas A. Gentile, Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert
Session Chair: Terry Haut
Session Chair: James Warsa
Session Chair: Raffi Yessayan
Session Chair: Maria Avramova
Session Chair: Erin Davis
Session Chair: Jae Chang
Session Chair: Alex Long
8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair: Scott Palmtag
Session Chair: Ryan McClarren
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil Prinja
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Brendan Kochunas
Session Chair: Zeyun Wu
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil K. Prinja
Session Chair: Xu Wu
1:20–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Changho Lee
Session Chair: Patrick Brantley
Session Chair: Hany Abdel-Khalik
2:10–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Christophe Demaziere
Session Chair: Cory Hauck
Session Chair: Won Sik Yang
Session Chair: Agustin Abarca
Session Chair: Christophe Demazière
Session Chair: Bojan Petrovic
Session Chair: Benjamin Betzler
Session Chair: HyeongKae Park
Session Chair: Andrew Holcomb
Session Chair: Jason Hou
Session Chair: Robert Nourgaliev
Session Chair: Simone Santandrea
Session Chair: Matthew Jessee
