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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.
Meeting Spotlight
2021 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting
June 14–16, 2021
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
Apr 2021
Jan 2021
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 2021
Nuclear Technology
April 2021
Fusion Science and Technology
February 2021
Latest News
N.Y. drops its objections to sale of Indian Point in deal with Holtec
The State of New York will withdraw its lawsuit against the transfer of Indian Point’s license to Holtec International for decommissioning under a provisional agreement signed on April 14. In exchange, Holtec has agreed to maintain a minimum of $400 million in Indian Point’s decommissioning trust fund for the next 10 years.
July 15–21, 2023
Knoxville, TN
NPIC&HMIT Honorary Chairs:
Richard Wood (University of Tennessee)
Joseph A. Naser II (Retired)
NPIC&HMIT General Chair:
Jamie Coble (University of Tennessee)
NPIC&HMIT Program Chair:
Vivek Agarwal (Idaho National Laboratory)
PSA Honorary Chair:
George F. Flanagan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
PSA Program Chair:
Askin Guler Yigitoglu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
