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The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Madison McCarthy, Ataul Bari, Jin Jiang (Univ of Western Ontario)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1785-1794
Wireless systems are gaining momentum within nuclear power plants (NPPs) due to their ease of deployment and higher mobility over their wired counterparts. Particularly, industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are now being used to improve plant efficiencies by replacing periodic surveillance and making data more readily available. IWSNs however have yet to reach their full potential due to several concerns that include IWSN system reliability and availability. Application constraints, such as resource limitations and deployment restrictions, can negatively impact the reliability and availability of a system. To evaluate the reliability of a IWSN system for a NPP monitoring application, it is important to understand how different IWSN device types and network communication protocols affect the overall performance of the system. This paper provides the background necessary to describe an IWSN system reliability and availability, in terms of IWSN device types, and network communication characteristics. Different approaches for modelling IWSN reliability and availability are also discussed.
