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Division Spotlight
Radiation Protection & Shielding
The Radiation Protection and Shielding Division is developing and promoting radiation protection and shielding aspects of nuclear science and technology — including interaction of nuclear radiation with materials and biological systems, instruments and techniques for the measurement of nuclear radiation fields, and radiation shield design and evaluation.
Meeting Spotlight
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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“Robust” interest in Summer’s partially constructed reactors
Santee Cooper is satisfied with the response generated by its initial request for proposals to buy what remains of the Summer-2 and -3 nuclear power plant project in South Carolina. The RFP was issued in January and the application window closed May 5.
2023 ANS Student Conference Speaker
Katie Mummah (she/her) is PhD student in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a graduate research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her research expands the capability of nuclear fuel cycle simulators to conduct safeguards analyses, and she is a DOE/NNSA Nuclear Nonproliferation & International Safeguards Graduate Fellow.
Katie has graduate certificates in Science Communication and Energy Analysis & Policy and is known online by her Twitter handle, @nuclearkatie. On Twitter, she shares information about the nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear history, and how to integrate the science of science communication into the public dialogue about nuclear energy.
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