ANS is committed to advancing, fostering, and promoting the development and application of nuclear sciences and technologies to benefit society.
Explore the many uses for nuclear science and its impact on energy, the environment, healthcare, food, and more.
Explore membership for yourself or for your organization.
Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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!
Latest Magazine Issues
Sep 2025
Jan 2025
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2025
Nuclear Technology
September 2025
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
NNSA awards BWXT $1.5B defense fuels contract
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded BWX Technologies a contract valued at $1.5 billion to build a Domestic Uranium Enrichment Centrifuge Experiment (DUECE) pilot plant in Tennessee in support of the administration’s efforts to build out a domestic supply of unobligated enriched uranium for defense-related nuclear fuel.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2023)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Lincoln West
Session Chair:
Ben Cipiti (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
To access paper attachments, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
Register NowLog In
An Evolving Physical Protection Approach for Small Modular and Microreactors
10:00–10:20AM EST
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia), Alan Evans (Sandia)
Paper
The Impact of Blended Cyber-Physical Attacks on Microreactors
10:20–10:40AM EST
Pat Moosir (Sandia)
Safeguards and Security for TRISO Pebble-Bed Reactors
10:40–11:00AM EST
Charles Forsberg (MIT), Andrew Kadak (Kadak Assoc.)
Experimental Methods for Tagging and Tracking TRISO-Fueled Pebbles in Pebble-Bed Reactors
11:00–11:20AM EST
Ming Fang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela Di Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Pebble Bed Reactor Neutronics and Isotopic Analysis During Lifetime of a Pebble
11:20–11:40AM EST
Zachary Crouch (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ben Impson (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
To join the conversation, you must be logged in and registered for the meeting.
