Student Paper Competition

Calling all students to submit papers to the 2025 NPIC&HMIT conference in Chicago! Papers for which the Primary Author is a student are eligible for a cash prize. You are considered a student if you were enrolled as a student while the work was completed and are giving the presentation as a current student or within 12 months of completing your degree. Please consider submitting a student paper and identifying it as such in the paper submission system. See you in Chicago!

Attention Authors

You are invited to submit your work for a special issue of the ANS journal Nuclear Technology. Click the + for more information.

NPIC&HMIT 2025 call for journal papers

NPIC&HMIT 2025 has partnered with the ANS journal Nuclear Technology (NT) to publish a special issue of papers derived from the conference.

**Submission window: open now with a deadline of September 15, 2025.

Details:

Your submitted paper should be derived from your conference work but must be updated to include final/broader results and a full description of the methods/technology. There is no restriction on length. Please follow submission guidelines listed here.
Your paper will go through the standard journal peer review process. This invitation is not a guarantee of acceptance or publication.
Please be mindful of the article type when submitting your paper. See the descriptions online here.
Standard publication in NT is free of charge, while open access publication is available for a fee ($2,990 per paper).
Accepted papers are published online ahead of print, immediately following copyediting and typesetting—usually within 6 to 8 weeks. The compiled special issue will follow, with print publication estimated for Q3 2026.

Submit to NT. Please select “NPIC&HMIT 2025” from the list of special issues.

Questions? Email nt@ans.org.

Alternatively, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). NSTOR welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations). NSTOR is fully open access and has publication charges dependent upon article type; although, these fees are 50% discounted if submitting before December 31, 2025.

Submit to NSTOR – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.

Thank you again for attending NPIC&HMIT 2025, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!

Our very best,

Fan Zhang
NPIC&HMIT 2025 publications chair; special issue guest editor

Dr. Yassin Hassan
Editor-in-chief, Nuclear Technology

Organizers

Honorary Chairs:	Wes Hines (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Ted Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions)
General Chair:	Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory)
Technical Program Chair:	Hyun Gook Kang (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Instrumentation & Controls Technical Co-Chairs:	Xingang Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville) Syed Bahauddin (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Human Factors Technical Co-Chairs:	Casey Robert Kovesdi (Idaho National Laboratory) Niav Hughes Green (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Publications Chair:	Fan Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)