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Conference Spotlight
2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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NRC nominee Nieh commits to independent safety mission
During a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing today, Ho Nieh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as a commissioner at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was urged to maintain the agency’s independence regardless of political pressure from the Trump administration.
Educator Training
February 20, 2024|5:00–6:00PM (6:00–7:00PM EST)
Available to All Users
Take your students to the center of the atom with Build a Nucleus, a new simulation from the University of Colorado Boulder’s PhET Interactive Simulations. Join us for a special K-12 educator training webinar on Build a Nucleus featuring its creator, Luisa Vargas Suarez of PhET. Luisa will demonstrate Build a Nucleus’s capabilities as well as the classroom investigations and learning goals it supports.
Presenter
Luisa Vargas SuarezSoftware Developer and DesignerPhET Interactive Simulations
Moderator
Jason DonevProfessorUniversity of Calgary
Biographies
Luisa Vargas Suarez
Luisa Vargas Suarez is a recent graduate from the University of Calgary. Having majored in energy science, chemistry, and computer science, she was a developer in the Energy Education team led by Dr. Jason Donev. Luisa launched the multilingual website on Energy Education, and developed data visualizations on our energy use. She developed the Build a Nucleus simulation with the PhET Interactive Simulations team at the University of Colorado Boulder. Luisa presented this simulation at conferences of well-known nuclear associations, where she won the top undergraduate research prize for two consecutive years and the top undergraduate award. Luisa now works at PhET until her upcoming master’s program begins and hopes to begin a career in the nuclear energy industry after graduation.
Jason Donev
Jason Donev is a tenured faculty member at the University of Calgary and an adjunct professor at the University of Regina. He leads the world’s largest and most utilized energy education resource for adults, EnergyEducation.ca. Donev teaches several energy courses, including courses that introduce energy in general and nuclear energy to non-technical audiences. He has received local and national awards for teaching and outreach. As a reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Donev works to help people understand nuclear power's role in providing reliable energy without emitting greenhouse gasses. He leads a team that researches how next-generation nuclear reactors have the potential to contribute to fighting climate change.
This webinar is presented by ANS in partnership with the Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy.