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Young Members Group
The Young Members Group works to encourage and enable all young professional members to be actively involved in the efforts and endeavors of the Society at all levels (Professional Divisions, ANS Governance, Local Sections, etc.) as they transition from the role of a student to the role of a professional. It sponsors non-technical workshops and meetings that provide professional development and networking opportunities for young professionals, collaborates with other Divisions and Groups in developing technical and non-technical content for topical and national meetings, encourages its members to participate in the activities of the Groups and Divisions that are closely related to their professional interests as well as in their local sections, introduces young members to the rules and governance structure of the Society, and nominates young professionals for awards and leadership opportunities available to members.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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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Dragonfly, a Pu-fueled drone heading to Titan, gets key NASA approval
Curiosity landed on Mars sporting a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) in 2012, and a second NASA rover, Perseverance, landed in 2021. Both are still rolling across the red planet in the name of science. Another exploratory craft with a similar plutonium-238–fueled RTG but a very different mission—to fly between multiple test sites on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon—recently got one step closer to deployment.
On April 25, NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) announced that the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s icy moon passed its critical design review. “Passing this mission milestone means that Dragonfly’s mission design, fabrication, integration, and test plans are all approved, and the mission can now turn its attention to the construction of the spacecraft itself,” according to NASA.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Julie Jacobson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Newitt (INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
Please join us to listen and learn about student research related to the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program.
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Electrochemical Studies of Actinides in Molten Salt and Aqueous Media in Support of Nuclear Material Management
10:00–10:20AM EST
Bethany Kersten (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Rohan Akolkar (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Christine E. Duval (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Paper
Analysis of Neutronic Parameters Using MCNP 6.2 for the Molten Salt Irradiation Facility at the PULSTAR Reactor
10:20–10:40AM EST
Matthew Schweitzer (NCSU), Ming Liu (NCSU), Austin Wells (NCSU), Nick Poole (NCSU), Nina Colby Fleming (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Heat Transfer Performance of a Wire-Wrapped Sodium Fast Reactor Fuel Rod Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Nicholas J. Thoreson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mathieu Martin (TerraPower), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Optical Basicity Determination of Molten Halide Salts
11:00–11:20AM EST
K. Buttice (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), R. Gakhar (INL)
Demonstration of Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in Molten Salts
11:20–11:40AM EST
Davis Bryars (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
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