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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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High-temperature plumbing and advanced reactors
The use of nuclear fission power and its role in impacting climate change is hotly debated. Fission advocates argue that short-term solutions would involve the rapid deployment of Gen III+ nuclear reactors, like Vogtle-3 and -4, while long-term climate change impact would rely on the creation and implementation of Gen IV reactors, “inherently safe” reactors that use passive laws of physics and chemistry rather than active controls such as valves and pumps to operate safely. While Gen IV reactors vary in many ways, one thing unites nearly all of them: the use of exotic, high-temperature coolants. These fluids, like molten salts and liquid metals, can enable reactor engineers to design much safer nuclear reactors—ultimately because the boiling point of each fluid is extremely high. Fluids that remain liquid over large temperature ranges can provide good heat transfer through many demanding conditions, all with minimal pressurization. Although the most apparent use for these fluids is advanced fission power, they have the potential to be applied to other power generation sources such as fusion, thermal storage, solar, or high-temperature process heat.1–3
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
Honorary Chairs
General Chair
Calling all students to submit papers to the 2025 NPIC&HMIT conference in Chicago! Papers for which the Primary Author is a student are eligible for a cash prize. You are considered a student if you were enrolled as a student while the work was completed and are giving the presentation as a current student or within 12 months of completing your degree. Please consider submitting a student paper and identifying it as such in the paper submission system. See you in Chicago!
You are invited to submit your work for a special issue of the ANS journal Nuclear Technology. Click the + for more information.
NPIC&HMIT 2025 call for journal papers
NPIC&HMIT 2025 has partnered with the ANS journal Nuclear Technology (NT) to publish a special issue of papers derived from the conference.
**Submission window: open now with a deadline of September 15, 2025.
Details:
Submit to NT. Please select “NPIC&HMIT 2025” from the list of special issues.
Questions? Email nt@ans.org.
Alternatively, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). NSTOR 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). NSTOR is fully open access and has publication charges dependent upon article type; although, these fees are 50% discounted if submitting before December 31, 2025.
Submit to NSTOR – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending NPIC&HMIT 2025, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Fan ZhangNPIC&HMIT 2025 publications chair; special issue guest editor
Dr. Yassin HassanEditor-in-chief, Nuclear Technology
Wes Hines (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Ted Quinn (Paragon Energy Solutions)
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