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Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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Latest News
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.
Honorary Chair:
John Wagner, Ph.D. (Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory)
General Chair/PNC President:
Corey McDaniel, Ph.D. (Kiewit Nuclear Solutions)
Technical Program Chair:
Jess Gehin, Ph.D. (Idaho National Laboratory)
Net Zero Chair:
Jhansi Kandasamy
US Technical Program Chair:
Erin Searcy, Ph.D. (Idaho National Laboratory)
Finance / Marketing Chair:
Theresa Sutter (Curtiss-Wright)
Special Events:
Lori Braase (Idaho National Laboratory)
Technical Program:
Allison Ray, Ph.D. (Idaho National Laboratory)
Pacific Nuclear Council Members
American Nuclear Society (ANS)
Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ)
Australian Nuclear Association
Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS)
Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA)
Chinese Nuclear Society (CNS)
Himni
Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (JAIF)
KAIF
Korean Nuclear Society (KNS)
Nuclear Energy Society: Taipei
Sociedad Nuclear Mexicana (SNM)
ANS Latin American Section
Vietnam Atomic Energy Society
Nuclear Society of Thailand
The Malaysian Nuclear Society (MNS)
US Nuclear Industry Council (USNIC)
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