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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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NRC discontinues spent fuel pool rulemaking
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is discontinuing its rulemaking activity, “Long-Term and Unattended Water Makeup of Spent Fuel Pools,” and denying a petition for rulemaking. The new rule, as requested by the petitioner, would have required nuclear power plant licensees to ensure that their spent nuclear fuel pools are capable of cooling and maintaining water levels during extended power outages.
Panel and Technical Session|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 14, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Student Union 362A
Session Chair:
Noah Walton (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Rida Rahman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Mathematics & Computation Division.
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Anomaly Detection in a Cold Trap Liquid Sodium Purification System through Multisensory Data Fusion with Deep Learning Autoencoders
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Alexandra G. Akins (North Carolina State University, Argonne National Laboratory), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Paper
Machine Learning-Based Error Correction Model for Low-Fidelity BWR Colorset Simulation
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Muhammad R. Oktavian (Purdue), Jonathan M. Nistor (Blue Wave AI Labs), John T. Gruenwald (Blue Wave AI Labs), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
Simulating Photoelectric Radiation Transport in Cylindrical Gas Filled Photoemission Driven Cavities
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Ravi Shastri (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Can Advances in Artificial Intelligence Surpass Legacy Algorithms for PWR Core Optimization?
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Paul R. Seurin (MIT), Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
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