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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
Standards Program
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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Educational Session|Panel|Sponsored by Workforce Development / Challenges
Tuesday, August 6, 2024|1:30–3:00PM EDT|Calusa 8-9
In this session, hear from senior leaders at Utilities, Union Halls, and Suppliers on how they work together to improve resource positions to support Refuel Outage and Online project Craft resourcing. Topics include recruiting, teaching & learning including apprenticeship programs, craft proficiency assessment programs and processes, resource planning, identifying and communicating gaps, knowledge sharing and transfer, using retirees, work task scheduling of required equipment inspections and PMs. Panelists will discuss Spring 2024 outage lessons learned and actions going into future outages.
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