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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.
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2024 (PBNC)
Brad Nelson has over 40 years of experience as a lead engineer and engineering manager for projects involving the design, analysis and integration of experimental equipment, systems, and facilities. Before joining Type One Energy as Vice President of Engineering, he worked as Chief Engineer for the US ITER Project, a multibillion-dollar international project to construct and operate the first full-scale fusion reactor.
Nelson’s experience includes mechanical design, analysis, and integration of complex experimental systems for fusion energy research, supervision of associated engineering groups, and coordination of mechanical design, analysis, R&D, fabrication, installation and startup of experimental devices and facilities. Three of those facilities were stellarators, including the Advanced Toroidal Facility and Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator Experiment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Compact Stellarator Experiment at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri.
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