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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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First concrete marks start of safety-related construction for Hermes test reactor
Kairos Power announced this morning that safety-related nuclear construction has begun at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., site where the company is building its Hermes low-power test reactor. Hermes, a scaled demonstration of Kairos Power’s fluoride salt–cooled, high-temperature reactor technology, became the first non–light water reactor to receive a construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in December 2023. The company broke ground at the site in July 2024.
July 15–20, 2023
Knoxville, TN|Knoxville Convention Center
You are invited to submit your work for special issues of the ANS journals Nuclear Science and Engineering and Nuclear Technology or to the ANS publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research. Click the + for more information.
The NPIC&HMIT 2023 and PSA 2023 conferences have partnered with ANS journals Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and Nuclear Technology (NT) to publish special issues of papers derived from the conferences. Additionally, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the special collections on the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). See below or click here for more information on NSTOR.
If interested, please contact the guest editors listed below or submit directly via the links below.
**Submission window: open now with a final deadline of March 31, 2024
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Please consider the scopes of the journals when deciding where to submit.
Nuclear Science and Engineering welcomes submissions that explore basic and fundamental research in all areas related to nuclear science and engineering. Submit to Nuclear Science & Engineering – Questions? Email nse@ans.org.
Nuclear Technology welcomes submissions that explore all phases of applications of fundamental research to nuclear technology. Submit to Nuclear Technology – Questions? Email nt@ans.org.
Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations). Submit to NSTOR NPIC&HMIT 2023 | PSA 2023 – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending NPIC&HMIT 2023 and PSA 2023, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Vivek Agarwal, guest editor, NPIC&HMIT 2023 Program Chairvivek.agarwal@inl.gov
Jamie Coble, guest editor, NPIC&HMIT 2023 General Chair jamie@utk.edu
Mihai Diaconeasa, guest editor, PSA 2023 Publications Chair madiacon@ncsu.edu
Askin Yigitoglu, guest editor, PSA 2023 Program Chair yigitoglua@ornl.gov
Michael Muhlheim, guest editor, PSA 2023 General Chair muhlheimmd@ornl.gov
Farzad Rahnema, Nuclear Science and Engineering editor-in-chief frahnema@outlook.com
Yassin Hassan, Nuclear Technology editor-in-chief y-hassan@tamu.edu
Congratulations to these award winners for all their hard work!
NPIC&HMIT is the de facto forum for nuclear instrumentation and control (I&C) and human factors engineering (HFE) professionals to meet with leaders in industry and academia, discover the state of the technology, exchange information, and discuss future directions. In addition to an impressive list of government and industry leaders, we are also planning several outstanding hot-topic technical sessions and popular plenary speakers, which will attract professionals from across the nation and internationally.
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