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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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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Monday, July 17, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Alternate Chair:
Hongbin Sun
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
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Enhanced Video-Level Anomaly Feature Detection for Nuclear Power Plant Component Inspections Using the Latency Mechanism
3:15–3:40PM EDT
Zhouxiang Fei (Univ. Strathclyde), Graeme M. West (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Gordon Dobie (Univ. Strathclyde)
Presented by Andrew Young (University of Strathclyde)
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PVC Detection in Sellafield Repackaging Procedures via Hyperspectral Imaging
3:40–4:05PM EDT
Jaime Zabalza (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Stephen Marshall (Univ. Strathclyde), Jinchang Ren (Robert Gordon Univ.), Robert Bernard (Sellafield), Steve Hepworth (Sellafield)
Automated X-ray Classification of Special Nuclear Materials as an Operator Aid
4:05–4:30PM EDT
Andrew Campbell (Univ. Strathclyde), Jaime Zabalza (Univ. Strathclyde), Paul Murray (Univ. Strathclyde), Stephen Marshall (Univ. Strathclyde), Neil Cockbain (National Nuclear Laboratory), Douglas Offin (National Nuclear Laboratory), Gareth Myers (Sellafield), Robert Bernard (Sellafield)
Classification of Ultrasonic B-Scan Images from Welding Defects Using a Convolutional Neural Network
4:30–4:55PM EDT
Hongbin Sun (ORNL), Richard Jacob (PNNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL)
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