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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)
Plenary Session|Panel
Monday, November 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Crystal A
Session Chairs:
Bao-Wen Yang (Delta Energy Group, New York DEGNY/GDES)
Dave Pointer (ORNL)
This special plenary panel session aims to foster inter-society exchanges with a particular emphasis on diversity and inclusion. The session will feature chairs or representatives from various international thermal hydraulic divisions and organizations, who will discuss and explore key topics such as international collaboration, membership promotion, diversity, and inclusion.
The session will also include brief introductions of individual societies, including the newly established European Thermal Hydraulics Community (ETHC), which has been approved under the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP). Additionally, this plenary session seeks to establish closer partnerships and collaborations in organizing meetings, providing reviewers, and exchanging information.
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