UC-Berkeley NE department receives ANS Presidential Citation
June 21, 2012, 5:00PMANS Nuclear Cafe
The University of California-Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department has been awarded an American Nuclear Society Presidential Citation, ANS President Eric Loewen announced today. Loewen will present the award to UC-Berkeley nuclear engineering department representatives during the President's Session of the ANS Annual Conference, Nuclear Science and Technology: Managing the Global Impact of Economic and Natural Events, being held June 24-28 in Chicago, Ill.
Several important events have recently occurred involving the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, and the interactions between the two.
Attention ANS Young Members:
The American Nuclear Society's Annual Conference, to be held June 24-28 in Chicago, Ill., will feature an embedded topical meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization (DD&R 2012).
Summer is here, and while I've been on emeritus status at Excited State University for many years, my seasonal rhythms are still those of academia. This means that I'm loafing now, even when it comes to making wisecracks.
Vermont Yankee's annual NRC performance review for the previous calendar year was held May 23, in Brattleboro Union High School, within 10 miles of the plant. In previous years, annual reports and state meetings have been held here, and in the Vernon Elementary School, across the road from the plant. The town of Vernon stopped hosting plant-related events due to behavior of some attendees.