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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS-2024) Plenary SPeaker
Manager, Radioisotope Power Systems Program
NASA Glenn Research Center
Mr. Carl E. Sandifer II currently serves as the Program Manager and Division Chief for the Radioisotope Power Systems Program at the NASA Glenn Research Center. In this role, he leads the development of power systems to enable NASA missions given a high priority by the scientific community to visit some of the harshest, darkest, and coldest locations in the solar system. Prior to this role, he served as the Deputy Chief of the Space Science Project Office at Glenn, and managed the science portfolio at the Center, which includes the development of new technologies, instruments, and systems to enable planetary science missions. Mr. Sandifer has a wealth of program and project management experience, along with a background in space mission design and systems analysis.
Carl graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics degree from Bowling Green State University, studied Aerospace Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and earned his Master of Business Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University.
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