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Division Spotlight
Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
Meeting Spotlight
2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
The American Nuclear Society Scholarship Policy and Coordination Committee, Divisions, and Local Sections have announced the 2024-2025 scholarship selections. This year ANS will award $244,000 to 91 recipients.
Thank you to all the donors who have generously supported our scholarship programs.
Kent Hamlin Memorial Scholarship
Max C. Richardson - Three Rivers Community College
Nontraditional Student Scholarships
John and Muriel Landis Scholarship
Community College / Trade School
ANS Incoming Freshman
ANS Undergraduate (Sophomore)
ANS Undergraduate (Junior/Senior)
Sushil C. Jain Undergraduate Scholarship
William R. & Mila Kimel Nuclear Engineering Scholarship
John R. Lamarsh Memorial Scholarship
Hans P. Loewen Memorial Scholarship
Joseph Naser HFICD Undergraduate Scholarship
Rudi Stamm’ler Reactor Physics Division Scholarship
Accelerator Applications Division Scholarship
Fusion Energy Division Dr. Kenneth R. Schultz Undergraduate Scholarship
Operations and Power Division Scholarship
ANS Graduate
Brice Turner Memorial Graduate Scholarship
Everitt P. Blizard Graduate Scholarship
Robert A. Dannels Memorial Scholarship
Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences Division Graduate Scholarship
Vincent J. Esposito Thermal-Hydraulic Graduate Scholarship
Ely M. Gelbard Graduate Scholarship
Gozani Family Graduate Scholarship
Alan F. Henry/Paul A. Greebler Memorial Scholarship
Lawrence E. Hochreiter Graduate Scholarship
Saul Levine Memorial Scholarship
Michael J. Lineberry Graduate Scholarship
Nuclear Criticality Safety Pioneers Scholarship
Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division John D. Randall Scholarship
James F. Schumar Scholarship
Robert E. Uhrig Graduate Scholarship
Vogt Radiochemistry Scholarship
ANS Colorado Nuclear Science and Technology Scholarship
ANS Columbia, SC Local Section Scholarship
ANS Oak Ridge / Knoxville Local Section Undergraduate Scholarship
ANS Pittsburgh Local Section Graduate Scholarship
Washington DC Local Section George P. Shultz and James W. Behrens Graduate Scholarship
Savannah River Local Section Richard Benjamin Memorial Scholarship
Eastern Washington Local Section Undergraduate Scholarship
Carlsbad Local Section Scholarship
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