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Robotics & Remote Systems
The Mission of the Robotics and Remote Systems Division is to promote the development and application of immersive simulation, robotics, and remote systems for hazardous environments for the purpose of reducing hazardous exposure to individuals, reducing environmental hazards and reducing the cost of performing work.
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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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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
UWC 2022 speaker
Xcel Energy
Patrick Burke is Nuclear Vice President Strategy. Responsible for developing the strategy and business plans for the Nuclear Business Unit of Xcel Energy. This includes leading the Innovation, Government and Policy, Transformation, Nuclear Services and used fuel strategies.
He previously held the Nuclear Vice President, Engineering and Technical Services position for Xcel Energy responsible for fleet engineering, capital projects, refueling outages, new fuels and used fuels storage functions.
Prior to that he served as the Vice President Capital Projects leading the fleet capital projects department as well as dry fuels storage and the corporate outage departments.
Patrick received his bachelor science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds a BWR Senior Reactor Operator certification, and has been a registered professional engineering in the state of Minnesota, and a Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
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