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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
The mission of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) is to promote the peaceful use of nuclear technology while simultaneously preventing the diversion and misuse of nuclear material and technology through appropriate safeguards and security, and promotion of nuclear nonproliferation policies. To achieve this mission, the objectives of the NNPD are to: Promote policy that discourages the proliferation of nuclear technology and material to inappropriate entities. Provide information to ANS members, the technical community at large, opinion leaders, and decision makers to improve their understanding of nuclear nonproliferation issues. Become a recognized technical resource on nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and security issues. Serve as the integration and coordination body for nuclear nonproliferation activities for the ANS. Work cooperatively with other ANS divisions to achieve these objective nonproliferation policies.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Juan Caneses (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Pressure Response Optimization of an Eddy Current Driven Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System
Adriana G Ghiozzi (ORISE), Monica L Gehrig (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Dave A Rasmussen, Larry R Baylor, Milton N Ericson, Trey E Gebhart (ORNL), Danah A Velez (ORISE)
Paper
Structural Analysis of the US ITER ECH Transmission Line System
Kevin Freudenberg, Kristine Cochran, Robert Myatt, Michael Kaufman, Aravind Shanmugasundaram (ORNL)
Optimization of Ion Flow Rates in a Helicon Injected IEC Fusion System
George H Miley, Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois)
Parallel operation with 9 sets of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) devices
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan)
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Identification of hydrogen isotope ratio on IECF experiment with getter pump using deuterium and tritium mixed gas
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan), Teppei Ohta (Kansai University, Japan)
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