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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
National Meeting
2020 ANS Annual Meeting
June 8–11, 2020
Online Virtual Meeting
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
May 2020
Jan 2020
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
June 2020
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
April 2020
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Nominations needed for the 2021 ANS election
Each year, ANS leaders are nominated and elected from among the dedicated nuclear technology professionals that make up the Society’s membership. Now is your chance to nominate candidates to run in the 2021 ANS national election for the offices of vice president/president-elect and treasurer and for five positions on the ANS Board of Directors. All terms will begin in June 2021.
August 29–September 3, 2021
Brussels, Belgium
General Chair:
Hamid Ait Abderrahim (Deputy Director General, SCK-CEN, the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)
Program Chair:
Elia Merzari (Principal Nuclear Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory)
