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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)
Professor Koji Okamoto is a full professor at Nuclear Professional School, the University of Tokyo. He got his Master Degree of Engineering and Ph.D from the University of Tokyo in 1985 and 1992, respectively. His major is Thermal-Hydraulics and Nuclear Safety. He published more than 100 refereed papers in the field of Fluid Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. He was an Asian district chief editor of Measurement Science and Technology, Institute of Physics.
After Fukushima-Daiichi NPP accidents, he explained to the public about the detail of the accident at several TV programs. He was a member of accident evaluation committee at Atomic Energy Society of Japan. From April, 2018, he also works as a Director General of Collaborative Laboratory for Advanced Decommissioning Sciences (CLADS) in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).
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