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Division Spotlight
Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
Meeting Spotlight
2023 ANS Annual Meeting
June 11–14, 2023
Indianapolis, IN|Marriott Indianapolis Downtown
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Feedback from nuclear sector to inform hearing on NRC licensing process
Leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce last month sent letters to a variety of nuclear sector stakeholders requesting input in preparation for a June 14 hearing titled “Oversight of NRC: Ensuring Efficient and Predictable Nuclear Safety Regulation for a Prosperous America.” (The hearing will be livestreamed at https://energycommerce.house.gov/.)
“We invite you to submit to the committee information and recommendations to improve the licensing review and approval process, as well as the oversight of NRC licensees,” the lawmakers wrote. “We are interested in NRC activities involving the licensing and oversight of today’s operating reactors, as well as the siting, licensing, construction, and oversight of advanced nuclear reactor technologies.” The letter also noted the committee’s interest in “improving NRC efficiency, management of regulatory costs and fees, public health and safety, staff effectiveness and culture, collaboration with the Department of Energy, and international activities.”
NPIC&HMIT Honorary Chairs:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee)
Joseph A. Naser II (Retired)
NPIC&HMIT General Chair:
Jamie Coble (University of Tennessee)
NPIC&HMIT Program Chair:
Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory)
PSA Honorary Chair:
George F. Flanagan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
PSA General Chair:
Michael Muhlheim (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
PSA Assistant General Chair:
Alex Huning (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
PSA Program Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
PSA Publications Chair:
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (North Carolina State University)
Organizer Biographies
NPIC&HMIT Honorary Chair
Dr. Joseph Naser was a Technical Executive with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Nuclear Power Sector in the Plant Technology Department. Prior to that, he was the manager of the EPRI Nuclear Power Sector’s Instrumentation and Control Program. He was with EPRI for 41 years working in a number of different areas. His major emphases were in the areas of control and protection systems; human-system support systems; human factors engineering aspects of digital systems; control rooms; modeling and simulation; productivity improvements; visualization; and artificial intelligence. He was the EPRI lead on the Joint DOE/EPRI Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program and EPRI Long-Term Operation Program for the topic area of Advanced Instrumentation, Information and Controls Technologies. He was responsible for over 140 EPRI technical reports.
Before coming to EPRI, he worked at the Argonne National laboratory in low energy physics and later in fast reactor physics. One year while at EPRI he taught Nuclear Physics part-time at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Naser has worked on several projects with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) contributing to twenty-one nuclear power plant reports. He has over 300 publications and major conference presentations.
He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), recipient of the ANS Don Miller Award, and past Chairman of the ANS Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls Division (HFICD). The ANS HFICD established the Joseph Naser Undergraduate Scholarship.
Dr. Naser has a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University in Science Engineering. He has a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. Dr. Naser is retired. In addition to several hobbies, he is keeping up with some of the advances in nuclear reactor technology, artificial intelligence, as well as NASA and other space technology advances.
PSA Honorary Chair
Education
BS Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University (1966)
MS Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University (1967)
PhD Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University (1969)
Professional Society and Other Related Activities
Charter and founding member of the Society of Risk Analysis.
Served on the National Board of Directors of the American Nuclear Society (ANS); served as chairman, program chairman, and executive board member of the ANS Nuclear Reactor Safety Division; and two terms as chairman of the Oak Ridge Section of the ANS. Involved in ANS speaker bureau and given lectures on nuclear reactor safety at several universities and civic clubs in the southeast. General Chairman of the 1985 and 1997 ANS International Topical Meeting on Fast Reactors. General Chairman of the 2008 ANS international Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Risk Assessment.
Chairman of the ANS standards working group on Nuclear Safety Criteria and Design Process for Sodium-Cooled Reactor Nuclear Power Plants.
Subcommittee Chair on Nuclear Technology and Design (SC-6) of the ISO Nuclear standards committee (TC 85).
Prior adjunct professor in the Nuclear Engineering Dept. of University of Tennessee teaching graduate courses in Breeder Reactor Safety.
Lecturer at several South Eastern Universities (UT, NC State, and Georgia Tech) on space nuclear reactor safety.
Member of the executive committee of the Southeastern Universities Nuclear Reactors Institute for Research and Education (SUNRISE)
American Nuclear Society Standards Board Chairman 2012-2018, currently a member of the ANS Standards Board
Chairman of the American Nuclear Society Research and Advanced Reactor Standards Consensus Committee
Fellow of the American Nuclear Society
Winner of the ANS Tommy Thompson Award for contributions to nuclear safety
Winner of the ANS Standards Service Award
Technical highlights
Member of the team that provided information to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on their Safety Goal Policy
Risk Analysis for numerous types of reactors (HFIR, Space Reactors such as JIMO and nuclear propulsion) , Aqueous Homogenous Reactor, Molten Salt Reactors, Sodium Cooled Reactors)
IAEA Instructor for inspectors of test reactors
Safety Analysis and Risk Analysis of Clinch River Breeder Reactor and Fast Flux Test Facility Designs
Lecturer on reactor safety at the University of Tennessee and several other universities
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