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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
Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2025)
May 4–8, 2025
Huntsville, AL|Huntsville Marriott and the Space & Rocket Center
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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U.S. nuclear capacity factors: Stability and energy dominance
Nuclear generation has inertia. Massive spinning turbines keep electricity flowing during grid disturbances. But nuclear generation also has a kind of inertia that isn’t governed by the laws of motion.
Starting—and then finishing—a power reactor construction project requires significant upfront effort and money, but once built a reactor can run for decades. Capacity factors of U.S. reactors have remained near 90 percent since the turn of the century, but it took more than a decade of improvements to reach that steady state. The payoff for nuclear investments is long-term and reliable.
April 28–May 2, 2013
Integrating Storage, Transportation, and Disposal
Albuquerque, NM|Albuquerque Marriott
The Albuquerque Marriott, located at 2101 Louisiana Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87110, will be the location for the 2013 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Topical Meeting, where all meeting activities and technical sessions will take place. The special room rate for the meeting is: $101.25/night (single / double rate). Reservations can be made using the link below. To register by phone for a guest room: 800-334-2086. Attendees must identify themselves as part of the American Nuclear Society to receive the group rate.
Honorary Chair:
Ju Wang (Vice President, Beijing Research Institute, Head, HLW Disposal Program, China)
General Chair:
Kevin McMahon (Sandia National Laboratories)
Program Chair:
Barry Butterfield (HDR Engineering Inc.)
