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Division Spotlight
Fusion Energy
This division promotes the development and timely introduction of fusion energy as a sustainable energy source with favorable economic, environmental, and safety attributes. The division cooperates with other organizations on common issues of multidisciplinary fusion science and technology, conducts professional meetings, and disseminates technical information in support of these goals. Members focus on the assessment and resolution of critical developmental issues for practical fusion energy applications.
Meeting Spotlight
International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver 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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Argonne’s METL gears up to test more sodium fast reactor components
Argonne National Laboratory has successfully swapped out an aging cold trap in the sodium test loop called METL (Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop), the Department of Energy announced April 23. The upgrade is the first of its kind in the United States in more than 30 years, according to the DOE, and will help test components and operations for the sodium-cooled fast reactors being developed now.
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division 2025 Conference
DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
Manager
Dr. Angela Chambers is the DOE Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP) Manager since November 3, 2016. She began her career at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant serving in the project management, decontamination and recovery, nuclear criticality safety, and non-destructive assay groups. Angela was a technical staff member and program lead for Los Alamos National Laboratory for 11 years, working for the Probabilistic Analysis Group and then for Weapons Systems Engineering where she had assembly design responsibility for the W78 and W88 systems. She has been involved with Nuclear Explosive Safety since joining NNSA in 2009 and was responsible for NES oversight and the DOE NES directives. Angela retired from the US Air Force Reserves where she instructed military and civilian first responders on nuclear and radiological incidents and the use of radiation detection instrumentation for DoD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Angela earned her doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Master of Science degree in nuclear engineering and a Bachelor of Science in physics, both from the Ohio State University. Angela has two daughters: Trinity and Tristan Ivy-Mike
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