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Nuclear Criticality Safety
NCSD provides communication among nuclear criticality safety professionals through the development of standards, the evolution of training methods and materials, the presentation of technical data and procedures, and the creation of specialty publications. In these ways, the division furthers the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory addresses compelling challenges in delivering carbon-free fusion and fission energy systems. The lab traces its roots to the X-10 Graphite Reactor, the world’s first continuously operated nuclear reactor, and to early innovations in fusion research and engineering.
ORNL has unique facilities for materials research and high performance computing that support our scientists and engineers in addressing challenges such as extended operations of the current US nuclear reactor fleet; investigating economical and flexible advanced reactor systems; and making fusion energy a viable power source.
ORNL also leads US ITER, which is responsible for designing, fabricating, and delivering hardware systems for the international ITER fusion project that will demonstrate 500 MW of fusion power. The directorate also leads the Transformational Challenge Reactor program, which leverages advanced manufacturing for rapid and economical deployment of nuclear technologies, and the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX), a future world-leading capability that will produce the extreme plasma environments to test materials for use in fusion energy devices.
Join one of the manned informal booth times slots below. Talk directly to recruiters from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ask questions about the organization and positions available.
Thursday, April 8
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Information Session Visit Booth
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT - About ORNL Presentation Hosted by Madalynn Miller, Recruiter Visit Booth
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT - ORNL Internship Opportunities Presentation Hosted by Ja'Wanda Grant, University & Student Affairs Lead Visit Booth
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT - ORNL Postdoctoral / Staff Member Opportunities Presentation Hosted by Madalynn Miller, Recruiter Visit Booth
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT - Meet ORAL Research Staff Hosted by Tara Pandya, Group Leader, Radiation Transport
Visit Booth
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Video Information Session
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT - ORNL Panel Q&A Session Hosted by Madalynn Miller (Recruiter) and Ja'Wanda Grant (University & Student Affairs Lead) Visit Booth
Friday, April 9
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT - Meet ORNL Research Staff Hosted by Bob Grove, Section Head, Nuclear Modeling & Sim Dev & Depl Visit Booth
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT - Meet ORNL Research Staff Hosted by Vittorio Badalassi, Distinguished R&D Staff Member, Nuclear Visit Booth
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT - Meet ORNL Research Staff Hosted by Dianne Bull Ezel, Interim Group Leader, Nuclear and Extreme Visit Booth
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Video Information SessionVisit Booth
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Information SessionVisit Booth
Saturday, April 10
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT - ORNL Internship Opportunities Hosted by Ja'Wanda Grant, University & Student Affairs Lead Visit Booth
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT - ORNL Postdoctoral / Staff member Opportunities Presentation Hosted by Madalynn Miller, Recruiter Visit Booth
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT - Meet ORNL Research Staff Hosted by Rike Bostelmann, R&D Staff Member - Nuclear Data & Reactor Physics AnalystVisit Booth
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT - ORNL Panel Q&A Session Hosted by Ja'Wanda Grant (University & Student Affairs Lead) and Madalynn Miller (Recruiter) Visit Booth
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Video Information Session Visit Booth
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT - Unstaffed Information Session Visit Booth
Friday, April 9, 2021|11:30AM–12:30PM (12:30–1:30PM EDT)
