Schedule Timeline

Schedule is subject to change

Friday — October 18, 2024

12:00PM EDT

Events

Quarterly DESD Executive Committee Meeting (Virtual)

Monday — October 21, 2024

3:00PM EDT

Events

Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division Executive Committee Meeting (Virtual)

Monday — November 4, 2024

3:00PM EST

Events

Nuclear Installations Safety Division (NISD) Program Committee Meeting (Virtual)

4:30PM EST

Events

Nuclear Installations Safety Division (NISD) Executive Committee Meeting (Virtual)

Tuesday — November 5, 2024

11:00AM EST

Events

Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division Committee (Virtual)

Wednesday — November 6, 2024

2:00PM EST

Events

Environmental and Siting Consensus Committee (ESCC) (Virtual)

3:00PM EST

Events

Bylaws and Rules Committee (Virtual)
Finance Committee Meeting (Virtual)

Sunday — November 10, 2024

11:00AM EST

Events

Thermal Hydraulics Division Program (Virtual)

Monday — November 11, 2024

11:00AM EST

Events

Honors & Awards Committee Meeting (Virtual)

4:00PM EST

Events

Mathematics and Computation Division (Virtual)

Tuesday — November 12, 2024

12:00PM EST

Events

Large Light Water Reactor Consensus Committee (LLWRCC) (Virtual)

Wednesday — November 13, 2024

1:00PM EST

Events

Local Sections Committtee (Virtual)

Thursday — November 14, 2024

2:00PM EST

Events

Nonreactor Nuclear Facilities Consensus Committee (NRNFCC) (Virtual)

Friday — November 15, 2024

4:00PM EST

Events

Radiation Protection & Shielding Division (Virtual)

Sunday — November 17, 2024

7:30AM EST

Events

President's Breakfast for Division and Committee Chairs (Crystal Ballroom B)

9:00AM EST

Events

Professional Divisions Committee (PDC) (Crystal Ballroom B)

10:00AM EST

Events

10:30AM EST

Events

Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division General Meeting (Cobia)

11:00AM EST

Events

National Program Committee - Screening (Mako)
Accreditation Policy and Procedures Committee (Damselfish)

12:00PM EST

Events

Professional Engineering Examination Committee (Virtual)
Scholarship Policy and Coordination Committee (Bluegill)
Isotopes and Radiation Division (Veiltail)

12:30PM EST

Events

Technical Journals Committee (Cobia)

1:00PM EST

Events

Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Education Committee (Mako)

2:00PM EST

Events

Student Program Meeting (Damselfish)
Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Program Committee (Mako)
Fuel Cycle Waste Management Executive Committee (Veiltail)
Education, Training & Workforce Development (Bluegill)
Reactor Physics Division (Zander)
Registration/Help Desk open from 2:00 pm-7:00 pm (Crystal Office)

2:30PM EST

Events

Thermal Hydraulics Division Town Hall (Walu)
NSE Editorial Advisory Board Meeting (Cobia)

3:00PM EST

Events

Nuclear Criticality Safety Division Executive Committee (Mako)
Operations & Power Division (Tarpon)
Robotics & Remote Systems Division (Damselfish)

3:30PM EST

Events

Thermal Hydraulics Division Executive Committee (Walu)

4:00PM EST

Events

NEDHO (Cobia)

5:00PM EST

Events

Alpha Nu Sigma (Mako)

6:00PM EST

Events

ANS President's Opening Reception (Peninsula Ballroom)
Exhibit Hall open 6:00-8:00 pm (Peninsula Ballroom)

Monday — November 18, 2024

7:00AM EST

Events

Continental Breakfast (Peninsula Ballroom)
Exhibit Hall open 7:00 am-4:30 pm (Peninsula Ballroom)
ANS Lounge
Registration/Help Desk open from 7:00 am-5:00 pm (Crystal Office)

8:00AM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Opening Plenary: NOW COMES THE HARD PART… (Crystal CDE)

11:00AM EST

Events

Materials Science & Technology Executive Committee (Cobia)

11:30AM EST

Events

Lunch (Peninsula Ballroom)
DIA Committee Meeting (Bluegill)

12:00PM EST

Events

National Meeting Committee (Mako)

1:00PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

State of Nuclear (Crystal B)
Challenges of Developing a Molten Salt Reactor Workforce (Canaveral 1)
Advanced Reactor SNF Management -- Strategies and Options (Labrid A/B)
Autonomous Control of Reactor Technologies (Anemone)
Isotope Production and Research Reactors (Biscayne 2)
Current Issues in Computational Methods: Roundtable (Biscayne 3)
Nuclear Fuels: I (Canaveral 2)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: I (Fantail)
Nuclear for Data Center Power Needs (Grouper)
Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) Status and Updates (Biscayne 1)
Pitch Your PhD Thesis Competition (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

DESD/RRSD Plenary I (Merritt 1/2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Hybrid Methods and Experimental Validation (Longboat 2)
Detection and Measurement (Longboat 1)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

ATH Plenary (Crystal A)

Events

Safety and Radiological Analyses Consensus Committee (SRACC) (Damselfish)

2:30PM EST

Events

Nuclear Criticality Safety Consensus Committee (NCSCC) (Mako)
Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policy Committee (RP3C) (Damselfish)

2:45PM EST

Events

Break (Peninsula Ballroom)

3:00PM EST

Events

External Affairs Committee (Cobia)

3:15PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Highlighting $1 Billion in University Research and Development Growth Through DOE’s Nuclear Energy University Program (Crystal B)
ANS Student Design Competition (Canaveral 1)
Progress Towards Domestic HALEU Production (Labrid A/B)
2025 Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT) Preview (Anemone)
Isotopes and Radiation: General (Biscayne 2)
Transport Methods (Biscayne 3)
Nuclear Fuels: II and Environmental Degradation of Materials (Canaveral 2)
Interview with the Past to Better Inform the Future (Fantail)
Hybrid and Integrated Energy Systems (Grouper)
Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) Project Update (Biscayne 1)
Preparing the Next Stage of Your Career (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

DESD/RRSD Plenary II (Merritt 1/2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Radiation Shielding, Visualizations and Machine Learning: I (Longboat 1)
Accelerator Facilities and Space Applications: I (Longboat 2)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

General Thermal Hydraulics (Coral B)
Molten-Salt Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (Coral C)
Small Modular Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (Coral A)

5:00PM EST

Events

Special Screening of “Nuclear Resurgence” – A Documentary About Nuclear Energy’s Comeback Story (Crystal B)

6:00PM EST

Events

Student Sections Committee (Canaveral 1)
Fusion Energy Division (Bluegill)
OPD Dinner (SOLD OUT) (SeaWorld- Sharks Underwater Grill)

Tuesday — November 19, 2024

7:00AM EST

Events

Continental Breakfast (Peninsula Ballroom)
Exhibit Hall open 7:00 am-1:00 pm (Peninsula Ballroom)
ANS Lounge
Registration/Help Desk open from 7:00 am-5:00 pm (Crystal Office)

8:00AM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Tuesday Plenary: Nuclear Power’s Role in Military Installation Resilience (Crystal CDE)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

RRSD/DESD Combined Session (Merritt 1)
Robotics and Remote Systems for Surveillance in Hazardous Environments (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Dosimetry, Activation Measurements, and Analysis (Longboat 1)
Fission and Fusion Facilities (Longboat 2)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

AI and ML for Thermal Hydraulics: General (Coral C)
Industrial Panel on the Development of Liquid Metal Reactor (Coral B)
Advancing Molten Salt Technology for the Next Generation of Nuclear Reactors (Coral A)

9:00AM EST

Events

Standards Board (Damselfish)

9:45AM EST

Events

Break (Peninsula Ballroom)

10:00AM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Full-Scale Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Package Performance Demonstration: Mission and Vision (Crystal B)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: I (Canaveral 1)
Saying Yes to the Fuel Cycle: Integrated Fuel Cycles, Creating an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (Labrid A/B)
Large Language Models for Nuclear (Anemone)
Computational Methods and Mathematical Modeling (Biscayne 3)
Computational Applications in Nuclear Materials Research (Canaveral 2)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: II (Fantail)
Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics: I (Grouper)
Reactor Physics of Molten Salt Reactors (Biscayne 2)
Microreactor Testing Planned for the National Reactor Innovation Center’s DOME Facility (Biscayne 1)
Fostering Neurodiversity in the Nuclear Community (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Advanced Nuclear Energy and ESG: Lighting Up Our Sustainability Journey (Merritt 1)
Effective Collaborations for Nuclear Waste Management: Opportunities, Challenges, and Infrastructure (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Radiation Shielding, Visualizations and Machine Learning: II (Longboat 1)
Accelerator Facilities and Space Applications: II (Longboat 2)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

Computational Fluid Dynamics: I (Coral A)
AI and ML Based Reduced Order Modeling (Coral C)
Young Professional Thermal Hydraulics Research Competition: I (Coral B)

Events

ANS-19.5, Requirements for Reference Reactor Physics Measurements (Bluegill)

11:45AM EST

Events

Public Policy Committee (Tarpon)

12:00PM EST

Events

Lunch (Peninsula Ballroom)
Young Members Group (Grouper)
National Program Committee (Mako)

1:00PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Commercial Maritime Decarbonization with Nuclear Energy (Crystal B)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: II (Canaveral 1)
Molten Salt Fuel Cycles: I (Labrid A/B)
Atomic Detectives: Exploring the Current State and Opportunities for Research and Education in Nuclear Forensics (Biscayne 2)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning: I (Biscayne 3)
Irradiation Experiments for Nuclear Materials and Fuels Research (Canaveral 2)
Critical and Subcritical Experiments: I (Fantail)
Advances in Reactor Design Methods (Biscayne 1)
Enabling the Best Nuclear Industry: Self-Care and Mental Health in the Nuclear Culture (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Implementing the NEPA: Improving Efficiency While Balancing Public Involvement (Merritt 1)
Special Topics: Telerobotics and Digital Twin (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Deterministic and Monte Carlo Methods (Longboat 1)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

Events

ANS-8.19, Administrative Practices for Nuclear Criticality Safety (Bluegill)

2:30PM EST

Events

ANS-8.23, Nuclear Criticality Accident Emergency Planning and Response (Bluegill)

2:45PM EST

Events

Break (Peninsula Ballroom)

3:15PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Regulation of Rapid High-Volume Deployable Reactors and Other Advanced Reactors (Crystal B)
Distinguished Early Career Program for Early Career Faculty (Canaveral 1)
Advanced Reactor Fuels (Labrid A/B)
Online Monitoring, Diagnostics, and Prognostics (Anemone)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning: II (Biscayne 3)
Fuels and Materials for Molten Salt Reactors (Canaveral 2)
ANS 8 Standards Forum (Fantail)
Nonproliferation Topics for Small and Modular Reactors (Biscayne 2)
Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, and Economics: II (Grouper)
Reactor Analysis Methods: I (Canaveral 3)
MARVEL Development Status (Biscayne 1)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Non-Naval Applications of Marine Nuclear Power (Merritt 1)
Robots in Extreme Environments (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

RPSD Plenary I - Nuclear Advocacy (Crystal A)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

Computational Fluid Dynamics: II (Coral A)
Young Professional Thermal Hydraulics Research Competition: II (Coral B)
Thermal Hydraulics Challenges and Opportunities for LWR Initiatives (Coral C)

5:30PM EST

Events

DIA/YMG Event- Nuclear Family Feud (Crystal A)

7:00PM EST

Events

DESD Reception (SeaWorld- Wild Arctic - SOLD OUT)

8:00PM EST

Events

ANS 70th Birthday Party (Crystal C/D/E)

Wednesday — November 20, 2024

7:00AM EST

Events

Continental Breakfast (Peninsula Ballroom)
ANS Lounge
Registration/Help Desk open from 7:00 am-5:00 pm (Crystal Office)

8:00AM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

The Young Voices Fueling the Future of Nuclear (Crystal B)
Advancements in Space Nuclear Technologies (Biscayne 2)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: III (Canaveral 1)
Progress on ARPA-E Programs Related to Recycling (Labrid A/B)
Advances in Human Factors Engineering (Anemone)
Data, Analysis and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: III (Fantail)
Recent Nuclear Criticality Safety Program Technical Accomplishments (Canaveral 2)
Nonproliferation Policy Advancement During Global Conflict (Biscayne 3)
Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems: I (Grouper)
Reactor Physics: General I (Canaveral 3)
Reactor Analysis Methods: II (Biscayne 1)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

U.S. Decommissioning Projects (Merritt 1)
Nuclear Material Handling, Facility Operations and Maintenance (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

RPSD Plenary II - The Future of Federal Radiological Emergency Response (Crystal A)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

Verification and Validation Methods for Thermal Hydraulics Analyses (Coral C)
T/H Phenomena Testing Related to High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (Coral B)
Scaling for Small Modular Reactors (Coral A)

9:00AM EST

Events

Fuel, Waste, and Decommissioning Consensus Committee (FWDCC) (Mako)

9:45AM EST

Events

Break (Peninsula Ballroom)

10:00AM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Navigating the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Reassessing Recycling? (Crystal B)
Innovations in Nuclear Research and Development Student Competition (Canaveral 1)
Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: General I (Labrid A/B)
Molten Salt Fuel Cycles: II (Biscayne 2)
Cybersecurity in Wireless Technologies, Digital I&C, Digital Twins, and Human Factors Considerations (Anemone)
Validation Efforts in NCS (Fantail)
Nuclear Installations Safety: General I (Canaveral 2)
Science, Engineering, and Technology in Support of Nonproliferation Policy (Biscayne 3)
Security by Design for Advanced Reactors (Grouper)
NRIC Virtual Test Bed (VTB) (Biscayne 1)
Progress in Advanced Research Reactor Development and Deployment (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Decommissioning Cost Estimates (Merritt 1)
International Panel on Robotics Applications for Nuclear Decommissioning (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Fuel Cycle, Waste Management, Health, Medical, and Medical Physics Facilities (Longboat 1)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

System Thermal Hydraulics (Coral A)
Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer: I (Coral C)
Gas-Cooled Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (Coral B)

11:45AM EST

Events

Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls Division Executive Committee Meeting (Bluegill)

12:00PM EST

Events

Lunch (Peninsula Ballroom)
Young Members Group Rad Talk with Kathryn Huff (Tarpon)

1:00PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Navigating the Nuclear Narrative: Communicating Stability, Security, and Growth — and Keeping Nuclear Out of the Political Fray (Crystal B)
Office of Nuclear Energy Supported Student Presentations: IV (Canaveral 1)
Fuel Cycle and Waste Management: General II (Labrid A/B)
Fusion Energy: General (Biscayne 2)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning: III (Biscayne 3)
Data, Analysis, and Operations in Nuclear Criticality Safety: IV (Fantail)
Nuclear Installations Safety: General II (Canaveral 2)
Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems: II (Grouper)
Reactor Physics of Gas Cooled Reactors (Biscayne 1)
Everyone Has a Seat at the Table: Balancing Interests with Consensus Standard Development (Canaveral 3)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Take a Look Back: 50 Years of DD&R (Merritt 1)
Robotics and Remote Systems for Nuclear Waste and Spent Fuel Management (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Nonproliferation and Nuclear Security Applications (Longboat 1)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

2:45PM EST

Events

Break (Peninsula Ballroom)

3:00PM EST

Events

Research and Advanced Reactors Consensus Committee (RARCC) (Mako)

3:15PM EST

Sessions

2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo

Education, Training, and Workforce Development: General (Canaveral 1)
Storage, Transportation, and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel (Labrid A/B)
Critical and Subcritical Experiments: II (Fantail)
Student Research to Inform the Nonproliferation and Safeguards Regime (Biscayne 3)
Advanced Nuclear Reactors and Power Systems: III (Grouper)
Reactor Physics: General II (Canaveral 3)
Reactor Physics Design, Validation and Operational Experience (Biscayne 1)

Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024

Decommissioning: Planning, Execution and Lessons Learned (Merritt 1)
Innovative Robotics Integration with AR and VR for Digital Twin Applications (Merritt 2)

Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)

Nuclear Data, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis (Longboat 1)

Advances in Thermal Hydraulics (ATH 2024)

Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer: II (Coral C)
Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (Coral B)
Multiphysics-Coupled and Microreactor Thermal Hydraulics (Coral A)

5:00PM EST

Events

KNS - US Chapter (Mako)

Thursday — November 21, 2024

8:00AM EST

Events

MCNP6.3 Features and Tools for RPSD Applications & Unstructured Mesh Geometry Workshop (Canaveral 1)
Radiation Shielding with SCALE: Best Practices (Canaveral 2)
Board of Directors Meeting (Crystal Ballroom B)

1:00PM EST

Events

GEANT4 Introductions & Applications Workshop (Canaveral 1)
Attila4MC for MCNP Shielding Calculations from Complex CAD Assemblies (Canaveral 2)