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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 Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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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Remembering Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till, an ANS member since 1963 and Fellow since 1987, passed away on March 22 at the age of 89. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Imperial College, University of London. Till initially worked for the Civilian Atomic Power Department of the Canadian General Electric Company, where he was the physicist in charge of the startup of the first prototype CANDU reactor in Canada.
Till joined Argonne National Laboratory in 1963 in the Applied Physics Division, where he worked as an experimentalist in the Fast Critical Experiments program. He then moved to additional positions of increasing responsibility, becoming division director in 1973. Under his leadership, the Applied Physics Division established itself as one of the elite reactor physics organizations in the world. Both the experimental (critical experiments and nuclear data measurements) and nuclear analysis methods work were internationally recognized. Till led Argonne’s participation in the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE), and he was the lead U.S. delegate to INFCE Working Group 5, Fast Breeders.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Fairchild
Session Chair:
Amanda M. Bachmann
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Student Assistant:
Keenan Hoffman
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Path to Sufficient HALEU Availability in U.S. and Canada?
10:05–10:25AM EST
Cyril W. Draffin, Jr. (U.S. Nuclear Industry Council), Jeffery S. Merrifield (Pillsbury Law)
Paper
The Effects of Impurities in Down-Blending Highly Enriched Uranium on the Reactor Neutronics and Cycle Length
10:25–10:45AM EST
Osman Sahin Celikten (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Dagistan Sahin (NIST Center for Neutron Research)
The Molten Uranium Thermal Breeder Reactor (MUTBR): A Consumer of UNF
10:45–11:05AM EST
Neal L. Mann (Neal Mann & Assoc.), Mihai (Mike) G. Pop (AREVA NP)
Safeguarding Thorium-Fueled Reactors: Understanding the Impact of Protactinium
11:05–11:25AM EST
Victoria Davis (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), George W. Hitt (Coastal Carolina Univ.), Claudio Gariazzo (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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