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• Aboutnuclear.org

  At the recent ANS meeting, I had the opportunity to talk with some people from the Public Information Committee. One shared the above with me - it is one side of a postcard addressed to: The Outreach Department American Nuclear Society 555 N. Kensington Avenue La Grange Park, IL 60526. Outreach.ans.org I thought you might enjoy seeing it. Warning - the Aboutnuclear.org website is a work in progress... Posted Jul 07 2009, 05:55 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, associations

• For Reliable Information About Radiation Go to RadiationAnswers.org

  One of the important action items from yesterday's American Nuclear Society plenary sessions was provided by NRC Commissioner Dale Klein. During his talk, he pointed out the need for an increased focus on education and information sharing. He talked about various ways of getting information to the new workers who will be needed to make the important technological decisions that will be required... Posted Jun 16 2009, 03:59 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, NRC, answers

• ANS Annual Meeting President's Reception

  At ANS annual meetings, the President's Reception is the traditional kickoff event with lots of good food, freely flowing beverages and opportunities to meet and greet old friends and make new ones. There are not too many places where a guy can find conversations about supercritical CO2, liquid metal breeders, space nuclear reactors, modular power plants for desalination, and the challenges of... Posted Jun 14 2009, 11:58 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, opinion, meeting

• Smart people party

  After the award ceremony for the presenters and engineering challenge, after the speech by Mr. Luis Reyes, the Chief Operating Officer of the NRC, and after a fine Texas dinner of steak and potatoes, the American Nuclear Society Student Conference concluded with one last group event - the party. Luminant, the company that recently purchased TXU, and the owner of the Commanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant... Posted Mar 02 2008, 06:08 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS, NRC, Luminant

• ANS Student Conference 2008 - progress report

  I mentioned a few days ago that I was going to be attending the ANS Student Conference at Texas A and M. I promised myself that I would try to produce some on the site blogs, but it is always difficult to find the time to produce a good entry during a conference. There are so many people to meet and talk to, so many booths to visit, so many sessions to attend, and so many drinks to share. (Actually... Posted Mar 01 2008, 05:58 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS

• Atomic Rod planning a visit to ANS Student Conference 2008

  One of my favorite memories from my continuing quest to share my ideas about small, inherently safe nuclear power plants was a time in 1994 when I visited the University of Wisconsin in Madison for an ANS student conference. To this day, I keep in touch with several people that I met during that conference. In fact, I just had dinner with one of them a couple of weeks ago. The students in nuclear engineering... Posted Feb 09 2008, 06:06 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS

• ANS Winter Meeting 2007 - Day 2 Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO GE

  The title for this year's ANS Winter Meeting is "Making the Renaissance Real" appeals to me and is one of the main reasons that I have invested a valuable holiday weekend in attending the meeting. One of the reasons that it appeals to me is that it uses the active voice and does not pose a question. There is a subtle but important difference between the title statement and asking "is... Posted Nov 13 2007, 05:01 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS

• ANS Winter Meeting 2007 - Day 1 "Hanging around at the Hotel"

  One of my favorite reasons for attending conferences is the conversations that occur outside of the presentations. Normally, the presentations are just a basis for starting an interesting relationship with someone who either agrees or disagrees with the speaker's point of view. At the American Nuclear Society meetings, much of the real opportunity for conversation occurs before the conference officially... Posted Nov 12 2007, 03:10 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS

• Young professionals are "allive and kicking" at the American Nuclear Society

  Yesterday - November 10, 2007 - I spent the day with an energetic, excited, engaged and highly educated group of young professionals who are members of the American Nuclear Society Young Members Group, the North American Young Generation in Nuclear or both. They spent the day talking about topics interesting to them - I am paraphrasing here: "Will there be a nuclear renaissance?" Answer Read... Posted Nov 11 2007, 02:50 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS

• ANS/ENS Winter Meeting 2007 - Making the Renaissance Real

  I am making preparations to cover the American Nuclear Society (ANS)/ European Nuclear Society (ENS) 2007 Winter meeting and the associated Young Professional's Congress. The Young Professional's Congress is a joint effort between North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NA-YGN) and the American Nuclear Society's Young Member Group . The meetings are taking place in Washington during... Posted Nov 06 2007, 02:46 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ANS