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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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NN Asks: What did you learn from ANS’s Nuclear 101?
Mike Harkin
When ANS first announced its new Nuclear 101 certificate course, I was excited. This felt like a course tailor-made for me, a transplant into the commercial nuclear world. I enrolled for the inaugural session held in November 2024, knowing it was going to be hard (this is nuclear power, of course)—but I had been working on ramping up my knowledge base for the past year, through both my employer and at a local college.
The course was a fast-and-furious roller-coaster ride through all the key components of the nuclear power industry, in one highly challenging week. In fact, the challenges the students experienced caught even the instructors by surprise. Thankfully, the shared intellectual stretch we students all felt helped us band together to push through to the end.
We were all impressed with the quality of the instructors, who are some of the top experts in the field. We appreciated not only their knowledge base but their support whenever someone struggled to understand a concept.
Plutonium Futures - The Science 2024
Nik Kaltsoyannis was educated at both undergraduate and doctoral levels at the University of Oxford, UK, completing his DPhil with Professor Jennifer Green in 1992. He subsequently moved to the USA, first to a University Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Ohio State with Professor Bruce Bursten, and then to a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Dr Norman Edelstein. He returned to the UK in 1994, and spent 21 years on the academic staff at University College London, becoming full Professor of Computational Chemistry in 2007. In 2015 he moved to the University of Manchester, where he is currently Professor and Head of Computational Chemistry, and Co‑Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research. His research interests focus on the quantum chemical study of molecular and extended solid compounds of the f elements. He has authored more than 200 primary research articles, an f element textbook, and several book chapters and reviews.
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