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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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DOE, NNSA open process to select energy suppliers for AI data centers
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Since 2021, the Local & Student Section Strategic Fund has has provided over $85,000 in grants to help support various initiatives. Here are just a few highlights from recipients in the past couple of years:
2024 Recipients
$4,878 - Project Development Committee - 2024 (K-12/Public Awareness and Communication)
$1,425 - Nuclear Science Exposition (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
$5,000 - Efforts to Advocate Nuclear Energy (Collaborative Projects/K-12/Public Awareness and Communication)
2023 Recipients
$5,000 - Nuclear Science Laboratory (NSL) - Spring 2024 (K-12)
$3,500 - Girl Scouts Get to Know Nuclear Patch Workshop (K-12)
$700 - Nuclear Energy Science and Technology (NEST’24) Seminar (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
2022 Recipients
$5,000 - Sponsorship support for the Future Net-Zero Innovators (FuNZI) student symposium at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) (Collaborative Projects)
$5,000 - Live Captioning for Computational Research Access Network (CRANE) Workshops (Collaborative Projects)
$5,000 - High School Public Outreach (Collaborative Projects/K-12)
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