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Division Spotlight
Accelerator Applications
The division was organized to promote the advancement of knowledge of the use of particle accelerator technologies for nuclear and other applications. It focuses on production of neutrons and other particles, utilization of these particles for scientific or industrial purposes, such as the production or destruction of radionuclides significant to energy, medicine, defense or other endeavors, as well as imaging and diagnostics.
Meeting Spotlight
Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2023)
February 6–9, 2023
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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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Remembering a fateful day for nuclear waste policy: January 31, 1998
Next week will mark 25 years since January 31, 1998, a date that all in the nuclear community are likely aware, as stated in the article highlighted in today’s #ThrowbackThursday post from the March 1998 issue of Nuclear News: “Those in the nuclear power industry are aware of the significance of the date January 31st, 1998. ln the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, that date was set as the deadline for the U.S. government–more specifically, the Department of Energy–to begin taking possession of and responsibility for spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants nationwide.”
Co-chairs:
Emma Houston
Katy Worrell
Technical Program Chair:
Lance Drouet
Communications Committee Director:
Sydney Copp
DE&I Committee Director:
Anthony Tom
Finance Committee Director:
Sophie Hitson
Logistics Committee Director:
Alyssa Hayes
Communications Committee Members:
David Anderson
Dan Racz
Landry Wells
Finance Committee Members:
Cade Abbott
Thomas Ensley
Logistics Committee Members:
Nick Branam
Katie Butler
Alex Choi
Haley Davis
Michael German
Caroline Thomas
Megan Whittle
Program Committee Members:
James Carnal
Daniel Hartman
Emily Hutchins
Gabe Lentchner
Organizer Biographies
Co-chair
Emma is a first-year graduate student in nuclear engineering studying under Dr. Sandra Bogetic. She graduate from Tennessee with a B.S. in nuclear engineering in 2022. Her undergraduate research consisted of both nuclear forensics and safeguard applications of neutrino detectors. She co-oped at Southern Nuclear Company at Vogtle 3 and 4 and interned at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. She is an active member of the American Nuclear Society and women in nuclear.
Katy is a senior majoring in nuclear engineering and minoring in mathematics. She currently performs undergraduate research in criticality safety topics under Dr. Vladimir Sobes. Since December 2020 she has worked as a Nuclear Criticality Safety Intern at BWXT Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. in Erwin, TN, during breaks from school. She served as secretary of the UTK ANS Student Chapter from 2020-2022, and is the president of the Chapter for the 2022-2023 academic year. She is also a member of the ANS NCSD Communications Committee. For general conference questions, you can reach her at kworrell@vols.utk.edu.
Technical Program Chair
Lance Drouet is a first-year graduate student in nuclear engineering working under Dr. Sandra Bogetic. He received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from UTK in 2022, during which he conducted undergraduate research under Dr. Eric Lukosi in semiconducting detectors.
He served as the 2021-2022 UTK ANS chapter president and co-led the creation of a successful ANS student conference bid. He continues this effort as the Programming Committee Director on the conference planning committee. Lance has interests in computer science, electronics, and machine learning.
Communications Committee Director
Sydney graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in May 2021 with a major in Nuclear Engineering and a minor in Materials Science & Engineering. Now, she is entering her second year of graduate school in UTK's NE Department as a Ph.D. candidate working under Dr. Steven Zinkle. Sydney is also involved in the department through serving as the Graduate Representative for our ANS Chapter, as well as a member of WIN.
DE&I Committee Director
Anthony graduated with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2022. This fall, he will be continuing his studies into computational material science with Dr. Wirth. His activities on campus include UT's chapters of the American Nuclear Society and National Society of Black Engineers. He can be contacted for DEI questions at atom1@vols.utk.edu.
Finance Committee Director
Sophie is a senior in Nuclear Engineering at UTK and has interests in nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security. She has completed internships with LANL and NRC. At UTK, she works as a Tickle College of Engineering Ambassador and as an undergraduate research assistant. For finance questions, please contact sophie@vols.utk.edu.
Logistics Committee Director
Alyssa is a Ph.D. candidate working for Professor Brian Wirth in the NE Department here at UT, working on impurity transport simulations for magnetically confined fusion applications. She earned her B.S. in the same field from the University of Illinois in 2019. Alyssa continues to be an active member of ANS and WIN, and she aspires to become an ANS Congressional Fellow in the future.
