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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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NWMO chooses vendors for Canadian repository
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization has selected five companies it is to work with to design and plan the organization’s proposed deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. As the owner of the project, the NWMO will be working with WSP Canada, Peter Kiewit Sons (Kiewit), Hatch Ltd., Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada, and Kinectrics.
Educational Session|Panel|Sponsored by Plant Reliability
Tuesday, August 6, 2024|10:30AM–12:00PM EDT|Banyan 2
In today's rapidly evolving nuclear landscape digital systems come with the promise of plant reliability, controllability and maintainability. Successful implementation of digital control system projects requires a holistic approach that considers an operations-centered design process. This process addresses the needs of key Operations stakeholders from early project scoping. This panel discussion explores the benefits of this approach on reducing the enterprise, project, operational, and financial risk.
This session will delve into the impact of evolving control room design and concept of operations on project outcomes. Our panelists will highlight how early stakeholder engagement can result in reduced design and project churn, increased reliability, and higher quality scoping. By incorporating strategic control room evolutionary design, standardization, human system interface requirements and the system engineering process, utilities can avoid what feels like inevitable scope drift, cost escalation and missed opportunities to reduce operational risk.
Drawing from extensive experience and expertise in these areas, this panel will provide valuable insights on applying the concept of Operations-Centered design to maximize the benefits of digital modernization initiatives.
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