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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
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.
November 11–15, 2012
Future Nuclear Technologies: Resilience and Flexibility
San Diego, CA|Town & Country Hotel & Resort
The Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, located at 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, California, 92108, will be the location for the 2012 Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, where all meeting activities and technical sessions will take place. The special room rate for the meeting is: $149.00/night (single rate); and $169.00/night (double rate). [$20.00 for each additional guest in the room.] The government rate is: $133.00/night (single rate); and $153.00/night (double rate). The parking fees are $10.00 per day for hotel guests and prevailing fees for non guests. Reservations can be made on their website at: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/72b3dd07 To register by phone for a guest room: 800-772-8527. Attendees must identify themselves as part of the American Nuclear Society to receive the group rate.
Honorary Chair:
Salomon Levy (Owner, Levy & Associates)
General Chair:
Per Peterson (University of California, Berkeley)
Program Chair:
Xiaodong Sun (The Ohio State University)
Assistant Program Chairs:
Sacit M. Cetiner (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Sedat Goluoglu (University of Florida)
Embedded Topical Meeting
Bal-Raj Sehgal (Professor, Royal Institute of Technology)
General Co-Chairs:
Yassin A. Hassan (Professor, Texas A&M University)
Hisashi Ninokata (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Francesco D'Auria (Professor, University of Pisa)
Program Chairs:
Kurshad Muftuoglu (Principal Engineer/Technologist, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy)
S. H. Chang (Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Henryk Anglart (Associate Professor, Royal Institute of Technology)
General Chairs:
Michael Corradini (Chair, Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin)
Dale Klein (Professor, University of Texas at Austin)
Jacopo Buongiorno (Professor, MIT)
Akira Tokuhiro (Professor, University of Idaho)
