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Division Spotlight
Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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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Nuclear Technology
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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.
April 17–20, 2016
San Francisco, CA|Hyatt Regency San Francisco
ICAPP 2016 will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, located at 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA. The group rate for this meetings is $259.00 plus tax (per night) Reservations can be made online at Hyatt Regency San Francisco. For government rate $219.00 plus tax (per night) reservations can be made at Government Rate. access code: ANSGGovernmentRate Rooms are limited!
Honorary Chairs:
Stephen Kuczynski (Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Southern Nuclear Operating Company)
Poong Hyun Seong (President, Korea Nuclear Society)
Hiroshi Uetsuka (Special Advisor to the President, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
General Chairs:
Neil Wilmshurst (Vice President and CNO, Electric Power Research Institute)
Seok Cho (President & CEO, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.)
Mamoru Hatazawa (Vice President and Head of Nuclear Business and Technology Power Systems, Toshiba Corporation)
Program Chairs:
Per Peterson (Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
Sunkoo Kang (Professor, KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School)
Keizo Ishii (Research Professor, Tohoku University)
