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.
Division Spotlight
Operations & Power
Members focus on the dissemination of knowledge and information in the area of power reactors with particular application to the production of electric power and process heat. The division sponsors meetings on the coverage of applied nuclear science and engineering as related to power plants, non-power reactors, and other nuclear facilities. It encourages and assists with the dissemination of knowledge pertinent to the safe and efficient operation of nuclear facilities through professional staff development, information exchange, and supporting the generation of viable solutions to current issues.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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
Apr 2024
Jan 2024
Latest Journal Issues
Nuclear Science and Engineering
May 2024
Nuclear Technology
Fusion Science and Technology
Latest News
Framatome signs contracts with Sizewell C
French nuclear developer Framatome is slated to deliver key equipment for Sizewell C Ltd.’s two large reactors planned for the United Kingdom’s Suffolk coast.
The agreement, reportedly worth multiple billions of euros, was announced this week and will involve Framatome from the design phase until commissioning. The company also agreed to a long-term fuel supply deal. Framatome is 80.5 percent owned by France’s EDF and 19.5 percent owned by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
Richard Turk (Technology Resources), Richard Cooper (A Typical High-End KVM System LLC)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 684-691
The first of the Generation III+ Advanced Light Water Reactors with advanced digital control rooms are nearing completion or, in some cases, already operational. Compared to their predecessors these control rooms represent a major step change in the display of information. Large panel multiple screen “wall” displays using Keyboard Video Mouse (KVM) networks are the centerpieces of the control rooms of Generation III+ (Gen III+) Nuclear Power Plants. For example, the AP1000 control room wall display consists of 12 wide panel screens. Stations for operators in the control room have four screens. While a very dramatic change for the nuclear industry, other industries have many years of experience operating with these types of displays in operations centers and so called “war rooms”. This paper will outline some of that experience. First experience is reviewed from the oil and gas industry drilling operations, which faces a multitude of complex business challenges. Asset Integrity Management (AIM) using a control center is an overarching approach designed to address these challenges. Experience from the defense industry is then examined. In most cases, a military command and control center’s wall display and KVM routing systems are considered mission critical. They usually provide highly sensitive or very important content to users who are driving key operations and making mission critical decisions. Also examined air traffic control systems and associated training facilities. Finally the experience of a major independent regional electric transmission and distribution organization in building a new 70,000-square-foot Backup Control Center (BCC), some 24 miles from the main control system is described.