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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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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DOE issues new NEPA rule and procedures—and accelerates DOME reactor testing
Meeting a deadline set in President Trump’s May 23 executive order “Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy,” the DOE on June 30 updated information on its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rulemaking and implementation procedures and published on its website an interim final rule that rescinds existing regulations alongside new implementing procedures.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Brian Hunt is a Certified Health Physicist who has been supporting NNSA’s Consequence Management (CM) Program and the Federal Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 2008. Brian currently serves as a deployable responder, instructor, and as the Chair of the Interagency FRMAC Assessment Working Group, which is responsible for establishing Federal Government policy for implementing consistent, defensible, state-of-the-art radiological assessment methods for emergency response. Brian holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico. He received his ABHP certification in 2009.
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