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Division Spotlight
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
Meeting Spotlight
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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Sam Altman steps down as Oklo board chair
Advanced nuclear company Oklo Inc. has new leadership for its board of directors as billionaire Sam Altman is stepping down from the position he has held since 2015. The move is meant to open new partnership opportunities with OpenAI, where Altman is CEO, and other artificial intelligence companies.
Markus Landgraf (European Space Agency), Lee S. Mason (NASA Glenn Research Center), Hiroshi Ueno (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Martin Anderson (Canadian Space Agency), Pierre Boutté (Centre National d'Études Spatiales), Daniel Brady (National Resources Canada), Joshua Brayford (UK Space Agency), Pascal Bultel (Centre National d'Études Spatiales), Antoine de la Chevrotière (National Resources Canada), Leonard Dudzinski (NASA Headquarters), Kandyce Goodliff (NASA Langley Research Center), John Guidi (NASA Headquarters), Adrian Guzmán (Agencia Espacial Mexicana), Jintae Hong (KAERI), Chan Soo Kim (KAERI), Andrew Kuh (UK Space Agency), William Mackey (Canadian Space Agency), Micah Melnyk (National Resources Canada), Jun Nakajima (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Claire Parfitt (European Space Agency), Rinat Rashapov (Canadian Space Agency), Dong Young Rew (KAERI), Danilo Sakay (Agência Espacial Brasileira), Leopold Summerer (European Space Agency), Ernest Tan (Canadian Space Agency), Manu Varrier (Indian Space Research Organisation), Brent Wilhelm (National Resources Canada)
Proceedings | Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2024) | Santa Fe, NM, May 6-10, 2024 | Pages 190-194
