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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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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Commercial nuclear innovation "new space" age
In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
June 15–19, 2014
The U.S. Role in a Global Nuclear Energy Enterprise
Reno, NV|Grand Sierra Resort
The Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, located at 2500 East Second Street, Reno, NV 89595, will be the location for the 2014 ANS Annual Meeting, where all meeting activities and technical sessions will take place. The special room rate for the meeting is: $159.00/per night (single / double rate). Reservations can be made online at:Grand Sierra Resort To register by phone for a guest room: 800-501-2651. Attendees must identify themselves as part of the American Nuclear Society to receive the group rate
General Chair:
John J. Grossenbacher (Laboratory Director and President, Idaho National Laboratory)
Assistant General Chairs:
Jon Carmack (Department Manager, Idaho National Laboratory)
Kathryn A. McCarthy (Director, LWRS Tech Integration Office, Idaho National Laboratory)
Program Chair:
Eric A. Burgett (Associate Professor, Idaho State University)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Jeff Brault (Consultant)
Martin B. Sattison (Division Director, Idaho National Laboratory)
Embedded Topical Meeting
Honorary Chair:
Thomas Sanders (Associate Lab Director, Energy Tech Initiative, Savannah River National Lab)
David C. Moody (Manager, Department of Energy SRS)
Program Chairs:
Sue Aggarwal (President, NMNT International Inc.)
Steve Tibrea (Manager R&D Engineering, Savannah River National Laboratory)
General Chairs:
Todd R. Allen (Deputy Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory)
Lance Snead (Distinguished Research Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Heather MacLean Chichester (Nuclear Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory)
Kurt A. Terrani (Staff Scientist-Weinberg Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Dr. Kurshad Muftuoglu (Principal Engineer, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
Prof. Jong Hyun Kim (Professor, KAIST & Consulting Executive EPRI)
Technical Program Chairs:
Dr. Donna Post Guillen (Distinguished Staff Engineer, INL)
Horst-Michael Prasser (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Prof. Seungjin Kim (Associate Professor, PSU)
Dr. Elia Merzari (Nuclear Engineer, ANL)
