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JULY/AUGUST 2014

Brady Raap becomes 60th ANS president

ichaele Mikey Brady Raap
began her term as president
of the American Nuclear
Society on June 19 during
the 2014 ANS Annual Meeting in Reno, Nev., concluding
her one-year term as vice president/
president-elect. Brady Raap succeeded
Donald Hoffman, who as the immediate past president will remain on the
Board of Directors for one year.
Brady Raap, an ANS member since
1986, is a chief engineer with the
Nuclear Engineering and Analysis
Department within the National Security
Directorate at Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory. She earned bachelors and
masters degrees in nuclear engineering
from Texas A&M University in 1981
and 1982, respectively, and then began
her doctoral studies. In 1984, she went
to Los Alamos National Laboratory on a
three-year Department of Energy fellowship to conduct research, earning a
Ph.D. from Texas A&M in 1988.
In 1987, Brady Raap took her first
professional position as a technical staff
member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and in 1992 she joined Sandia
National Laboratories in Albuquerque,
N.M., where she worked as a technical
program manager for two years, followed by three years in Las Vegas as
the technical program manager for
Sandias activities in support of the
Yucca Mountain Project.
In 1997, Brady Raap took a job with
Duke Engineering & Services as a tech-

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During the 189th meeting of the ANS Board of Directors, Brady Raap presented Hoffman with a
plaque commemorating his service as the 20132014 ANS president.

nical systems manager at the Hanford

Site, and in 1999, she was hired as a
project manager at PNNL, where she
addresses nuclear criticality safety
issues, including those related to the
Waste Treatment Plant at the Hanford
Site, remediation at Japans Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear site, and projects under
the National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center. She was named to the

DOEs Criticality Safety Support Group

in 2012.
Brady Raaps extensive service to
ANS includes a term as treasurer
(20112013), two terms on the Board
of Directors, and three terms on the
Finance Committee. She has served in
every officer position for the Reactor
Physics Division, including the chairSee President on page 2

3 Presidents Column

8 Engaging the media

4 Revised position statement

9 ANS financial statements

5 Nuclear accreditation and you

11 New student section overseas

6 Awards at Annual Meeting

12 ANS offers Girl Scout patch

Uddin named ANS Fellow

Leaders in the development,
dissemination, and application
of nuclear science and
technology to benefit humanity
Michaele C. Brady Raap
President
Eugene S. Grecheck
Vice President/
President-Elect
Margaret E. Harding
Treasurer
Robert C. Fine
Executive Director
Martin L. Grossbeck
Chair, Publications
Steering Committee

Betsy Tompkins
Publisher

izwan Uddin, ANS member

since 1988 and a professor
and associate head of academic programs in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and
Radiological Engineering at
the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, has been named a Fellow
of the American Nuclear Society. He
achieved the highest grade of ANS
membership in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of nuclear science and technology, and he was recognized by ANS
President Donald Hoffman on June 16
during the opening plenary session of
the 2014 ANS Annual Meeting.

Uddin received
the distinction for
his contributions to
the advancement of
the understanding
of density wave
oscillations,
nuclear-coupled
density wave oscillations, and boiling
Uddin
water reactor stability, and for his contributions to the
advancement of coarse-mesh nodal
methods and to relaxing the limitations
on coarse-mesh methods to make them
applicable to a larger class of engineering problems.

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manship, has chaired the Criticality
Safety Division, and continues to serve
on that divisions Education Committee. She has been vice chair and chair
of the Professional Divisions Committee and vice chair of the National Program Committee, and has served on
the Publications Steering Committee
and its Meetings Proceedings and
Transactions subcommittee. Brady

Raap has been active in the ANS Standards Program since she joined the
Society, and she currently serves on
the ANS Standards Committees Safety
and Radiological Analyses Consensus
Committee and on several standards
working groups.
As president, Brady Raap plans to
make ANS more operationally efficient
by improving the Societys image, communications, and financial system.

Phyllis Ruzicka
Editorial Director
Susan Gallier
Editor
Chris Salvato
Desktop Editor

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THE ANS BOARD MEMBERS WHOSE THREE-YEAR TERMS ENDED IN JUNE were
recognized by outgoing President Donald Hoffman and incoming President Michaele Brady
Raap during the 189th meeting of the ANS Board of Directors in Reno, Nev. Pictured, from
left, are Nicholas Tsoulfanidis, H. Lee Dodds, Hoffman, Brady Raap, Steven Arndt, and
Santiago San Antonio. Past President Michael Corradini is not pictured. Eugene Grecheck also
concluded a three-year term as a Board member, but he remains on the Board as the newly
elected vice president/president-elect.

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P R E S I D E N T S

C O L U M N

Starting a new conversation

am honored to have been elected the 60th president of
the American Nuclear Society. I know that I have big
shoes to fill, and I pledge to you that I will do all that I
can to keep the momentum going and to continue the
transformation of ANS into a more relevant
organization that offers clear benefits to its
members.
Immediate Past President Donald Hoffman
and I have reviewed the status of his 12 initiatives for ANS and have assigned recommendations and future activities to standing committees to keep the initiatives moving forward.
With your help, we will continue to work
together on these efforts.
The recent ANS Annual Meeting in Reno
was a great event. Based on presentations at
the plenary sessions, it is clear that this is a
pivotal time for nuclear science and technoloBrady Raap
gy. Worldwide, the emphasis on clean energy
and energy security has made the case that nuclear energy
has significant benefits to offer as part of any national energy strategy. It is just as clear that nuclear is only part of the
solution, and an energy strategy that includes a range of
energy sourcesincluding nuclear, wind, solar, natural gas,
and clean coaloffers the most flexibility and benefits in
terms of reliability and economics.
ANS has a significant role to play in the advancement of
the fundamental nuclear science and technology that is the
basis for innovation in nuclear energy. Innovation will bring
us the next generation of reactors, which will emphasize
passive safety, improved economics, and fuel cycle management from cradle to grave. In the United States, there have
been investments in education through the Nuclear Energy
University Programs and other funding initiatives. The
promise of a nuclear renaissance has helped increase the
number of students and young professionals in the pipeline
to sustain the existing fleet of nuclear power plants and to
develop future innovations. However, there has been limited investment in new experimental facilities to enable stateof-the-art research opportunities.
Coordinating research on an international scale is one
way to address this limitation. International research and
coordination extends beyond nuclear power to include
nuclear medicine, food preservation activities, and the use
of radioactive tracers in other scientific disciplines, as well
as geological and oceanographic exploration, power sources
for remote space missions, and a multitude of other applications. Facilities that can produce isotopes and enable fundamental research in materials science and nuclear physics
are essential to our future. Id like to start a conversation
within ANS to validate fundamental research needs and
determine how we can have a meaningful impact on those
needs.
Given President Obamas all of the above energy strate-

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gy and the recommendations in the Environmental Protection Agencys Clean Air Act, ANS should consider using its
experience in public outreach to ensure that state legislators have the facts about nuclear power. The website for
ANSs Center for Nuclear Science and Technology Information (www.nuclearconnect.org),
which serves as a public portal to ANS, provides one place to do this. A carefully thought
out approach to matching the needs of each
state with the information and resources that
ANS can provide could enable states to develop balanced and well-informed approaches to
reducing carbon emissions. Our local sections
will need to be the grassroots power behind
any plan that ANS develops to engage state
governments, so I challenge them to step up,
get involved, coordinate through the Local Sections Committee, and make something happen!
In my published statement as a candidate for
vice president/president-elect, I presented three objectives
that I see as important to the Society: (1) maintain the technical diversity of our membership, (2) expand the global
impact of ANS by promoting international cooperation to
address public outreach and provide technical resources to
policymakers, and (3) promote the modernization of ANSs
information technology (IT) infrastructure to facilitate the
efficient implementation of our strategic plan.
Specific activities I will pursue to support the technical
diversity of our membership include reorganizing the Special Committee on Utility Integration to align with the Utility Engagement Program established under Hoffmans initiatives. I will also promote the growth of ANSs newer and
smaller professional divisions and technical groups, including the Nuclear Nonproliferation Technical Group and the
Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Division.
I intend to increase ANSs global impact by promoting
international collaboration for the sharing of benchmark
quality data and working to establish an international effort
to improve communication with the public about the safety
of low doses of radiation. Hoffman and I have had conversations with the Health Physics Society about working
together on communicating about low-dose radiation.
ANS made significant progress over the past year to initiate upgrades of the Societys IT systemsboth our association management system and our financial management
system. I will continue to support the successful implementation of these upgrades, the goal of which is to enhance
the member experience and facilitate the implementation
of the strategic plan and other Society business.
I am very thankful to have this opportunity to serve you,
the members of the American Nuclear Society. I invite you
to contact me through the ANS website, join me on
LinkedIn, or follow me on Twitter @ANSprezMikey.Mikey
Brady Raap

ANS awards Silver

certificates to 25year members
NS awards certificates to members to recognize 25 or 50 years
of membership in the American
Nuclear Society. The Silver certificate
recipients listed below, who joined ANS
in May or June of 1989, have maintained ANS membership for 25 years.
Additional Silver certificate recipients will be announced in ANS News
throughout 2014.

Silver Certificate Recipients

Edward J. Arends
Steven E. Aumeier
Robert M. Bellamy
William F. Brehm
Frank P. Crimi
John A. Dahl
Karl N. Fleming
Mohamed A. Gaafar
George H. Gellrich
Brian L. Grant
Phillip D. Grissom
Brady D. Hanson
Muhammad N. Islam
John P. Kelsey
James F. Meyer
David A. Nold
Sudhakar Pandey
Bojan Petrovic
Farzad Rahnema
Tanvir Salim
Alexander Stanculescu
Lawrence H. Valmonte
Mark R. Winsor

Revised position statement

he ANS Board of Directors approved a revision to Position Statement 45,
Nuclear Fuel Recycling, during the ANS Annual Meeting in Reno, Nev., on June
19. The revised statement is printed below in its entirety.

N UCLEAR FUEL RECYCLING

Position Statement #45
Revised June 2014
The American Nuclear Society recognizes that if the world is to produce sufficient
electricity to meet the demands of a growing population with improving standards of
living, nuclear energy will play a substantial role, particularly if used fuel is recycled
to maximize utilization of natural uranium resources. Nuclear energy is a proven
technology that will be part of the mix of technologies used by future generations
due to its enormous energy potential with near-zero emissions of greenhouse gases.
Alternative low-emission energy sources by themselves will be insufficient to meet
these needs during this period of rapidly increasing electricity demand.1
Nuclear fuel recycling2 involves separating the uranium and plutonium from used
nuclear fuel and reusing these materials in the fabrication of new fuel. If used in
conjunction with advanced fuel cycles and reactors, recycling has the potential to significantly enhance resource utilization by reclaiming most of the unused energy in
used fuel (about 95 percent) and minimizing the volume of radioactive waste requiring disposal in a geologic repository.
The two concerns most frequently raised about nuclear fuel recycling are: (1)
costs, and (2) nonproliferation uncertainties. With regard to the life-cycle cost of
nuclear energy, both national and international evaluations37 have shown that the
capital and financing costs for new reactors dominate, and that differences between
direct disposal and used fuel recycle costs are not a significant contributor to lifecycle costs. Furthermore, enhanced methods are available for recycling used nuclear
fuel that enable more radionuclide components to be recycled and reduce the
amount of waste that must be placed in a geologic repository.8
Nonproliferation analyses9,10 demonstrate that existing safeguard regimes and
advanced safeguards-by-design can be applied effectively to a nuclear fuel recycling
facility to meet IAEA guidelines in a cost-effective manner.11 Furthermore, effective
extrinsic (institutional) measures to counter proliferation and security threats are necessary regardless of the nuclear fuel cycle technology chosen.12

New committee chairs have been named

everal new ANS committee chairs
began their duties on June 19
during the ANS Annual Meeting.
The new committee chairs are
Xiaodong Sun, Book Publishing Committee (a subcommittee of the Publications Steering Committee); Margaret E.
Harding, Finance Committee; Tinh
Tran, Local Sections Committee;
William A. Wharton III, Planning
Committee; Lisa M. Marshall, Professional Women in ANS Committee;
George F. Flanagan, Standards Board;
and Jess C. Gehin, Technical Journals
Committee (a subcommittee of the
Publications Steering Committee).

The committee chairs whose terms

are continuing are Youssef A. Shatilla,
Accreditation Policy and Procedures
Committee; C. Thomas Snow, Bylaws
and Rules Committee; Mary Lou
Dunzik-Gougar, Communications Committee; Steven J. Zinkle, Honors and
Awards Committee; Corey K. McDaniel,
International Committee; James J.
Byrne, Meetings Proceedings and
Transactions Committee (a subcommittee of the Publications Steering Committee); Peter F. Caracappa, Membership Committee; Raymond T. Klann,
National Program Committee; Rachel N.
Slaybaugh, NEED Committee; Noorali

Sam K. Savani, Professional Development Coordination Committee; Hans D.

Gougar, Professional Divisions Committee; Rebecca L. Steinman, Professional
Engineering Examination Committee;
Paul T. Dickman, Public Policy Committee; Martin L. Grossbeck, Publications
Steering Committee; Craig Williamson,
Scholarship Policy and Coordination
Committee; Ruth F. Weiner, Special
Committee on the Congressional Fellow
Program; James A. Lake, Special Committee on Government Relations; Barry
Allen, Special Committee on Utility
Integration; and Alexis C. Kaplan,
Student Sections Committee.
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The Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future13 concluded that it is

premature to seek consensus on recycling used nuclear fuel and instead recommended storage of used nuclear fuel pending the development of a geologic repository.
ANS recognizes that interim storage of used nuclear fuel is a necessary but not permanent solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Moreover, ANS takes the position
that continued research and development of nuclear fuel recycling without a policy
and plan for deployment will not make the technology a practical reality. Transitioning to a policy that allows and encourages used nuclear fuel to be recycled will significantly enhance resource utilization and radioactive waste management, and will
ensure that the United States can influence international fuel cycle decisions in the
current era of expanded, global nuclear power deployment.
Therefore, the American Nuclear Society, as a matter of policy, endorses the following:
n An energy policy and legal framework that addresses a comprehensive and sustainable program for the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle, which includes used fuel recycling and geologic disposal.
n Directed development of fuel recycle options in parallel with advanced nuclear
reactor systems.
References
1. International Energy Outlook 2013, U.S. Energy Information Administration (2013).
2. H. F. McFarlane, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Encyclopedia of Energy, Vol. 4, Elsevier (2004).
3. The Future of Nuclear Power (2003) and Update of the MIT 2003 Future of Nuclear Power (2009), Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
4. Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Radioactive Waste Management, NEA No. 5990, OECD/Nuclear Energy
Agency (2006).
5. M. Bunn, J. Holdren, S. Fetter, and R. Van Der Zwann, The Economics of Reprocessing versus Direct
Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Technology, Vol. 150, p. 209 (June 2005).
6. J. E. Parsons and G. de Roo, Nuclear Fuel Recycling, the Value of the Separated Transuranics and the
Levelized Cost of Electricity, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (Sept. 2009).
7. The Economics of the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, NEA No. 7061, OECD/NEA (2013).
8. E. D. Collins, G. D. DelCul, J. E. Rushton, and K. A. Williams, A Practical Solution to Used Nuclear Fuel
Treatment to Enable Sustained Nuclear Energy and Recovery of Vital Materials, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, ORNL/TM-2010/81 (April 2010).
9. E. Collins and M. Ehinger, Nonproliferation Uncertainties, a Major Barrier to Used Nuclear Fuel Recycle
in the United States, Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (July 2011).
10. T. Bjornard, H. Garcia, W. Desmond, and S. DeMuth, Safeguarding and Protecting the Nuclear Fuel
Cycle, Nuclear News, Vol. 53, No. 12, p. 76 (Nov. 2010).
11. International Safeguards in Nuclear Facility Design and Construction, IAEA Nuclear Energy Series No. NPT-2.8 (April 2013).
12. R. Bari, et al., Proliferation Risk Reduction Study of Alternative Spent Fuel Processing, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, BNL-90264-2009-CP (July 2009).
13. Report to the Secretary of Energy, Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future (Jan. 2012).

All current ANS position statements are available at www.ans.org/pi/ps/. A

searchable list of the position statements in descending chronological order can be
found at www.ans.org/pi/ps/search.php.

ANS publishes
new standard
NSI/ANS-8.12014, Nuclear
Criticality Safety in Operations
with Fissionable Materials Outside
Reactors, was approved by the American
National Standards Institute in April and
has been published. The standard
applies to operations with fissionable
materials outside nuclear reactors,
except for the assembly of such materials under controlled conditions, such as
in critical experiments. Basic criteria are
presented and limits are specified for
some single fissionable units of simple
shape containing U-233, U-235, or
Pu-239, but not for multiunit arrays.
Validation requirements are stated for
any method of calculation used to assess
nuclear criticality safety. This standard
does not include the details of administrative controls, the design of processes
or equipment, the description of instrumentation for process control, or
detailed criteria to be met in transporting fissionable materials.
This standard was first approved as
American Standard N6.11964. A substantial revision was approved in 1969
and was affirmed, with minor revisions,
as American National Standard N16.1
1975/ANS-8.1. It was subsequently supplemented by ANSI N16.91975/ANS8.11, Validation of Calculational Methods
for Nuclear Criticality Safety. The two
standards were consolidated in 1983.
The standard, which is a revision of
ANSI/ANS-8.11998 (R2007), is available for purchase in the ANS online
store at www.ans.org/store/i_240297.

Ensuring a quality nuclear education

BY WALID A. M ETWALLY, STANLEY
LEVINSON, AND JAMES S. TULENKO

H.

pecialists in the nuclear field have

a responsibility to ensure that a
high-quality education is provided
to future nuclear engineers. This is a
crucial role that guarantees the continuous improvement of our nuclear education programs and allows them to
keep pace with the evolving demands
of the nuclear industry. You can help
fulfill this role by becoming an ABET

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program evaluator (PEV).

What do PEVs do?
ABET PEVs are volunteers who
evaluate post-secondary programs offering degrees in applied science, computing, engineering, and engineering technology. ABET, formerly known as the
Accreditation Board of Engineering and
Technology, has created excellent training programs to ensure that each PEV
has the necessary training to carry out
engineering program evaluations. Upon

completion of their training, PEVs are

nominated through ANS to evaluate
programs offering degrees in nuclear
and radiological engineering, and occasionally health physics. PEVs are drawn
from among all nuclear professionals,
including engineers, managers, executives, professors, scientists, and consultants from vendors, utilities, universities,
national laboratories, and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
A PEV ensures that the academic
See Education on page 10
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Awards presented at Annual Meeting

n June 16, during the 2014
ANS Annual Meeting in Reno,
Nev., then President Donald
Hoffman and Honors and
Awards Committee Chair
Steven Zinkle presented the
ANS awards listed below.

W. BENNETT LEWIS AWARD

Presented to Marcel Boiteux, of
EDF, in recognition
of a lifetime of pioneering contributions to sustainable
energy, in particular his leadership
role in building
Frances fleet of
nuclear power
plants, enhancing
Boiteux
energy independence, and replacing the use of carbonintensive fuels with nuclear energy.
ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON AWARD
IN EDUCATION
Presented to Michael Podowski, of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
ANS Fellow and
member since
2006, for his dedication to the education of nuclear
engineers and for
his pioneering initiative to establish
Podowski
a degree program
for U.S. Navy personnel at RPI.
DON MILLER AWARD
Presented to Hidekazu Yoshikawa,
of Harbin Engineering University
(China), ANS member since 1982, and
to Douglas M. Chapin, of MPR Associates, ANS Fellow and member since
1969, in recognition of their accom-

Yoshikawa

Chapin

plishments in the field of instrumentation, control, and human-machine

interface technologies.
LANDIS YOUNG MEMBER
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Presented to Elia Merzari, of Argonne
National Laboratory,
ANS member since
2009, in recognition of his contributions to the simulation of complex turbulent flows and
multiscale/multiphysics simulations
of nuclear reactor
Merzari
designs.
MISHIMA AWARD

Shikama

Presented to Tatsuo Shikama, of

Tohoku University
(Japan), for his sustained contributions to the field of
irradiation materials science and his
leadership and
guidance of the
next generation of

researchers.
HENRY DEWOLF SMYTH NUCLEAR
STATESMAN AWARD
ANS and the Nuclear Energy Institute jointly presented this award
to Luis E. Echavarri, of the OECD
Nuclear Energy
Agency, for outstanding statesmanship and leadership
in the global
nuclear arena,
Echavarri
including his direction of OECD/NEA activities that promote the development of safe and economical commercial nuclear power.
SPECIAL AWARD: ENHANCING
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY IN
RESPONSE TO THE FUKUSHIMA
ACCIDENT
Presented to Mitchell T. Farmer, of
Argonne National Laboratory, who
joined ANS in May, for his interna-

tionally recognized
contributions to
the understanding
and modeling of
severe accident
phenomena in
light-water reactors
and for providing
technical assistance to Japan folFarmer
lowing the
Fukushima Daiichi accident.
WALTER H. ZINN AWARD
Presented to Kyle H. Turner, of
McCallum-Turner,
ANS member since
1972, for his dedication to the advancement of the U.S.
nuclear industry
over 30 years, during which time he
led 19 site-selection
studies for new
Turner
nuclear plants and
served as the primary author of key documents on new-plant siting and deployment, helping establish a predictable regulatory path for new reactor deployment.
PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS
Presented to Richard W. Bill
Borchardt, of the
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, in
recognition of his
strong leadership
as executive director of operations at
the NRC, where he
has led the
agencys
day-to-day
Borchardt
activities, including
the NRCs response to the Fukushima
Daiichi accident, and for his support of
the ANS Utility Working Conference.
Presented to
Sama Bilbao y
Len, of Virginia
Commonwealth
University, ANS
member since
1994, for her
strong leadership
and service to the
Society as a twoBilbao y Len
term member of
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the Board of Directors, chair of the

Environmental Sciences Division, and
treasurer of the Young Members
Group, during which time she has provided valuable input to ANS programs
based on her knowledge of utilities
and nuclear engineering education.
Presented to Peter Caracappa, of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
ANS member since
1996, for his dedicated leadership as
chair of the Membership Committee
and for reaching
out to diverse constituent units to
Caracappa
develop a revised
membership plan and structure that
will allow the Society to increase its
membership in years to come.
Presented to Mary Lou DunzikGougar, of Idaho
State University,
ANS member since
1994, for her leadership as chair of
the Communications Committee,
during which time
she has helped
ANS improve its
Dunzik-Gougar
communication
processes and reach out to new sectors, and for her commitment to
improving the Society through her
involvement as a member of the Board
of Directors, chair of the Fuel Cycle
and Waste Management Division, and
chair of the Accreditation Policy and
Procedures Committee.
Presented to Marvin S. Fertel, of the
Nuclear Energy
Institute, ANS
member since
1996, for his service to the nuclear
power industry in a
variety of positions
at the U.S. Council
for Energy Awareness and subseFertel
quently at the NEI,
where he is president and chief executive officer, for his work in formulating
and communicating the nuclear industrys position on a number of critical
issues, and for addressing these issues
with regulators, legislators, the financial
sector, and the public.
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Presented posthumously to Michael

J. Lineberry, of Idaho State University,
ANS Fellow and
member since
1974, for his distinguished and sustained service to
ANS in numerous
capacities, including as treasurer, as
a leader in the
Reactor Physics
Lineberry
and Fuel Cycle and
Waste Management Divisions, and as
general chair and technical program
chair of several ANS meetings, and for
being an effective communicator of the
benefits of nuclear technology and of
ANS.
Presented to Peter B. Lyons, of the
Department of
Energy, ANS Fellow and member
since 2003, in
recognition of his
long and dedicated
career in the
nuclear industry,
including nearly 30
years at Los AlamLyons
os National Laboratory, and for his service as a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as a science advisor to Sen.
Pete Domenici and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
and as the assistant secretary for
nuclear energy at the Department of
Energy, where he has supported funding for nuclear research and the
Nuclear Energy University Programs.
Presented to Robert F. Penn Jr., of
AREVA Inc., ANS
member since
1976, for his dedicated leadership as
chair of the Local
Sections Committee
and for building a
strong relationship
between ANS local
sections, professionPenn
al divisions, and
headquarters staff by improving communication between local sections and
with other ANS constituent units.
Presented to Amir Shahkarami, of
Exelon and Exelon Nuclear Partners,
ANS member since 1992, for his outstanding leadership within the Society
on behalf of the utility sector as chair

of the Special Committee on Utility

Integration, and for
his overall support
of the goals and
mission of ANS,
including involvement in the Chicago Section, service
on the Board of
Shahkarami
Directors, and his
work as general chair of the 2012
ANS Annual Meeting and the 2011
Utility Working Conference.
Presented to Rachel N. Slaybaugh,
of Bettis Laboratory, ANS member
since 2003, for her
leadership within
ANS, including her
support of student
and young member
programs, her service on the Board of
Directors
as a stuSlaybaugh
dent director, and
her service as chair of the NEED, Student Sections, and Professional Women
in ANS Committees and vice chair of
the Professional Divisions Committee.
Presented to Roger W. Tilbrook,
retired from
Argonne National
Laboratory, ANS
member since
1969, for his service as the interim
executive director
of ANS in 2011
and 2012 and for
his dedication to
Tilbrook
helping ANS
through a transition period by focusing
on the strategic plan and service to the
ANS membership, setting up the Society to be successful for many years to
come.

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Engaging the media

BY MARY LOU DUNZIK-GOUGAR,
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE C HAIR
first got involved in outreach as
a high school science teacher
and then as a utility employee,
and I continued my involvement during my grad-student
days at Penn State. Since then,
Ive participated in
outreach to adults
through community
groups, to teachers
through workshops
at ANS national
meetings, and to
policymakers
through the congressional seminar
Dunzik-Gougar
series sponsored by
ANSs Center for Nuclear Science and
Technology Information. I have also
taken part in many local section activities and have spoken with reporters
about particular issues or events.
All of these activities are important
for us to engage in if we want to ensure
that people have the facts about nuclear
science and technology to counter misinformation and urban myths. As the
Communications Committee works with
other volunteers and staff to implement
ANSs strategic communications plan,
we will be updating or creating tools
that members can use for outreach.
There are ways that you can engage
the media right now to share your

opinions or correct misinformation.

You can comment on an article online,
write a letter to the editor, or submit
an opinion piece. Many of you have
been very successful in this, and we
are compiling samples to help everyone else get started. Here are some
tips to keep in mind.
n Get to the point. You need to get to
the point immediately, preferably in
the first sentence. Remember that this
is not a technical paper youre writing.
Be concise and use terms that are
widely understood.
n Focus your message. When responding to a previously published article,
keep your response focused on the
issues covered by the article. Limit
your response to a maximum of three
main points. Many of us deal in precision and nuance, but those are not
characteristics that work well in media.
Three points just seem to work. This
principle holds true for opinion pieces
as well.
n Write without judgment. This can be
harder than it sounds. Reading the
ridiculous misinformation propagated
by a supposed expert can get us

worked up, and sometimes downright

angry. But your response is much more
likely to be accepted by the media outlet if you present a cogent argument
using facts and language that is accessible to most people.
The media still carries influence,
whether you believe that the media
drives public opinion or the other way
around. The conversation going on in
the media is what dominates peoples
views about a given topic. If misinformation is out there, ANS members have
opportunities to set the record straight.
Were trying to change the conversation so that ANS is driving the conversation, not responding to it. Imagine if
you could pick up the paper or hop
onto your favorite news website and
read a positive story about nuclear,
unconnected to any particular event.
Wouldnt that be great?
A working group of the Communications Committee is developing tools to
help, because grassroots organizing can
have a real impact on the media dialogue. Keep an eye out for details in
future issues of ANS News and the
Notes & Deadlines e-news bulletin.

MEMBER WEBINAR UPDATE

Coming in September is Best Practices for National Nuclear Science Week
2014, and in December, Interacting with the Media. The New Construction in
the United States webinar will be presented later this year. Continue to check
www.ans.org/members/webinar for new topics and dates.

Make plans for National Nuclear Science Week

he fifth annual National Nuclear
Science Week is scheduled for
October 2024, and plans are
being made across the United States
for activities to raise public awareness
of nuclear science and technology. The
ANS Eastern Washington and Puget
Sound Sections and the Nuclear Literacy Project, founded by ANS member
Suzy Hobbs Baker, are collaborating
with national and regional organizations to host activities in Seattle, Wash.,
that will be featured for this years
observance of NNSW.
ANS is a sponsor of NNSW, which is
organized by the National Museum of

Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, N.M., with the help of nuclear
energy partners, including the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Energy

Institute. Information about NNSW and

ideas for activities are available at
www.nuclearscienceweek.org, where
youll find the NNSW Celebration Guide
and a link to sign up for e-mail updates.
The ANS Communications and Outreach Department can provide outreach
suggestions and materials to ANS local
and student sections that are planning
to host an event in their community.
Funds are limited, so sections that are
interested in hosting an event should
contact ANS headquarters as soon as
possible. For more information, send an
e-mail to outreach@ans.org or call
708/352-6611 and ask for Outreach.
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American Nuclear Society Inc.

Statements of Financial Position*
2013
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
Investments
Accounts receivable, net
Pledges receivable, net
Prepaid expenses
Deferred project costs
Property and equipment, net
Electronic data, net
Total Assets
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Liabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Grants payable
Deferred revenue
Accrued postretirement benefits
Total Liabilities

$ 1,316,467 $ 1,563,208
18,878,985
16,655,193
432,005
444,836
749,829
1,232,908
263,653
241,156
271,924
251,633
588,266
646,117
69,614
47,649
$ 22,570,743 $ 21,082,700

540,009 $
707,583

24,581
2,144,256
2,241,023
2,815,734
3,290,765
5,499,999
6,263,952

Net Assets
Unrestricted
General operations fund
7,356,068
Unrestrictedappropriated through Board designation
Insurance allowance
1,000,000
Congressional Fellow

Scholarships and awards

1,033,303
Scholarship and award fund interest
283,765
Divisions
1,023,144
Building fund
900,000
11,596,280
Temporarily restricted
Scholarship and award funds
Center for Nuclear Science & Technology Information
Permanently restrictedscholarship and award funds
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets

Statements of Cash Flows*

2012

3,811,372
1,000,000
1,000,000
1,327,000
508,748
1,040,000
900,000
9,587,120

3,176,777
1,952,953
5,129,730

2,796,414
2,090,480
4,886,894

344,734
17,070,744

344,734
14,818,748

$ 22,570,743 $ 21,082,700

2012
2013
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Change in Net Assets
$ 2,251,995 $ 1,278,830
Adjustments to Reconcile Increase (Decrease) in Net Assets
to Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities
Realized and unrealized gains on investments
Depreciation
Amortization
Change in present value of pledge discounts
Bad debt expense
Accrued postretirement benefits
Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Accounts receivable
Pledges receivable
Prepaid expenses
Deferred project costs
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
Grants payable
Deferred revenue
Total Adjustments
Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Operating Activities

(2,282,962)
109,200
26,180
13,637
104,700
(475,031)

(1,338,359)
97,488
9,530
23,086
113,693
209,473

(91,869)
469,442
(22,496)
(20,291)
(167,574)
(24,581)
(96,767)

(84,106)
300,328
5,706
83,872
(85,126)
(24,767)
130,423

(2,458,412)
(206,417)

(558,759)
720,071

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Purchase of property and equipment
(51,349)
Electronic data additions
(48,145)
Purchase of investments, including reinvested
(23,166,033)
dividends
Proceeds from sale of investments
23,225,203
Net Cash Used in Investing Activities
(40,324)
Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents
(246,741)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
Beginning of year

(154,890)
(47,649)
(819,617)
456,385
(565,771)
154,300

1,563,208
1,408,908
$ 1,316,467 $ 1,563,208

End of year

Statements of Activities*
SUPPORT AND REVENUE
Member services
Meetings
Commercial publications
Scientific publications
Standards
Outreach and constituent units
Contribution incomeCenter for Nuclear Science & Technology Information
Scholarship and award contributions
Center for Nuclear Science & Technology Information release from restrictions
Scholarship and award funds release from restrictions
Total Support and Revenue
FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES
Program expenses
Supporting services
Management and general
Fundraising
Total Functional Expenses
OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE)
Net investment return
Change in postretirement benefit obligation
Total Other Income (Expense)
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS
Beginning of year
End of year

Unrestricted
$
699,525
3,608,063
2,928,391
2,074,593
304,562
471,937

225,642
248,036
10,560,749

Temporarily Permanently
2013
2012
Restricted
Restricted

$
699,525 $
671,956

3,608,063
3,336,307

2,928,391
3,294,959

2,074,593
2,064,472

304,562
289,691

471,937
447,684
88,113

88,113
238,286
113,251

113,251
142,984
(225,642)

(248,036)

(272,314)

10,288,435
10,486,339

10,231,964

10,231,964

9,300,147

1,018,599
115,225
11,365,788

1,018,599
115,225
11,365,788

1,330,813
191,807
10,822,767

2,202,697
611,502
2,814,199

515,149

515,149

2,717,846
611,502
3,329,348

2,009,160
9,587,120
$ 11,596,280

242,835
4,886,895
$ 5,129,730

1,702,976
(87,718)
1,615,258

2,251,995
1,278,830
344,734
14,818,749
13,539,919
$ 344,734 $ 17,070,744 $ 14,818,749
*Years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 (in dollars)

JULY/AUGUST 2014 ANS NEWS

Education, continued from page 5

program being evaluated meets all relevant ABET Engineering 2000 criteria. The criteria evaluated include program goals and objectives, students,
faculty, facilities, curriculum, continuous improvement, and specific nuclear
and radiological program requirements.
PEVs highlight program strengths and
identify those areas in which ABET
criteria are not being met or that lack
strength of compliance or raise a concern about future compliance.
The PEVs first review a self-study
report prepared by the institution being
evaluated that describes how the
ABET criteria are satisfied, provides a
description of the engineering program
curriculum, and contains student tran-

scripts. This review is followed by an

on-site visit to interview faculty, staff,
administrators, and students. The
entire ABET accreditation procedure is
part of a continuous improvement
process by which institutions can
enhance their academic programs.
The ANS-ABET relationship
The ANS Accreditation Policy and
Procedures Committee (APPC) is a
standing committee that is responsible
for developing policy, procedures, and
criteria for the accreditation of nuclear,
radiological, and similar academic programs in engineering and technology.
The APPC nominates PEVs to ABET
and is also responsible for all ABET
accreditation issues, such as the recruit-

ment and training of PEVs and the

development of specific criteria for
nuclear and radiological programs.
Why become a PEV?
Volunteering as a PEV is an important and simple way to help ensure the
quality of nuclear engineering education. You probably graduated from an
ABET-accredited engineering program,
and it is vital to the engineering community that consistent academic criteria are used in educating the future
engineering workforce. It is a satisfying
and rewarding way that you can make
a difference.
For more information on how to
become a PEV, please visit www.ans.
org/about/committees/appc/pevs/.

ANS PATRONS & BENEFACTORS

2014 PATRONS
Wayne L. Andrews Jr.
Joseph S. Armijo
Steven A. Arndt
Gary M. Ault
Mark A. Bates
Edgar Berkey
George H. Bidinger
Rita C. Bowser
James R. Boyd
Jack S. Brenizer Jr.

Keith F. Bullen
Kenneth M. Carr
Richard M. Collins
John L. Davenport
Patrick F. Ervin
Audeen W. Fentiman
Marvin S. Fertel
Abel A. Garcia
Tsahi Gozani
Roxy Gwynn

Bryan C. Hanson
Paul E. Hartnett
H. M. Hashemian
David K. Hayes
Anthony Hechanova
Donald R. Hoffman
Calvin M. Hopper
Sushil C. Jain
Mujid S. Kazimi
Anton F. Kitz

Christopher W. Lapp
Harry Lawroski
Alan E. Levin
John R. Longenecker
V. Patricia Lougheed
Michael D. Lyster
Gail H. Marcus
William R. Mills
Thomas E. Mistler
William L. Myers

Charles W. Pennington
Kenneth S. Petersen
Edward L. Quinn
Jimmy L. Rash
Michael K. Reed
E. James Reinsch
Don K. Schopfer
Stephen P. Schultz
Andrew O. Smetana
Kurt M. Taylor

Gale S. F. Voyles
Robert C. Webb
William A. Wharton III
John C. Williams
Brian N. Woolweber
Natalie A. Yonker

2014 BENEFACTORS
Lawrence K. Akers
John M. Anderson
Jon G. Anderson
Clark J. Artaud
Charles W. Bagnal Jr.
Eric L. Ballon
Richard W. Benjamin
Sama Bilbao y Len
Thomas Booth
Thomas E. Bostrom
Michaele C. Brady Raap
Gilbert J. Brown
Jeffrey A. Buczek
Anthony R. Buhl
Michael E. Button
Dan G. Cacuci
Diane M. Cato
Yoon I. Chang
Nam Zin Cho
Steven D. Clement
Richard A. Cline
Russell G. Coon

Alan B. Cox
John S. Craig
Dennis DeMoss
Nils J. Diaz
Paul W. Dickson Jr.
Roger H. Dilmore
Maurice E. Dingler
Lawrence F. Drbal
Jay E. Durham
Joseph O. Erb
Vincent J. Esposito
Guy P. Estes
James L. Everett III
Julie G. Ezold
James R. Fancher
Madeline A. Feltus
Larry R. Foulke
K. Michael Goff
Eugene S. Grecheck
Ivan Grosz
Luisa F. Hansen
Margaret E. Harding

Joseph M. Harverson
Philip B. Hemmig
Gerald T. Hollingsworth
Donald R. Horn
Angelina S. Howard
Melissa A. Hunter
Viktor A. Ivanov
Ralph M. Jacobs
Stanley J. Jefferson
Jeffrey D. E. Jeffries
Baard J. Johansen
W. Reed Johnson
James K. Joosten Jr.
Daniel E. Kimble
Paul H. Lamberger
Peter C. LeBlond
Stanley H. Levinson
Mimi H. Limbach
Phyllis M. Lovett
Thomas A. Lynch
James P. Malone
Michael M. Mann

Sean M. McCarty
Corey K. McDaniel
Thomas P. McLaughlin
Richard K. Miller
Mohammad Modarres
K. Linga Murty
Steven J. Nathan
Kent R. Novatny
Kaichiro Odajima
Kevin R. OKula
Joao A. Osso Jr.
Shawn D. Pautz
W. David Pointer
Anthony G. Pollman
Raymond F. Rugg
Richard Sanchez
Thomas L. Sanders
Ralph K. Schwartzbeck
Bal-Raj Sehgal
William T. Sha
Bonnie J. Shapiro
Steven A. Shapiro

Steven M. Short
Thomas B. Silko
Mike S. Singh
Rachel N. Slaybaugh
Sandra M. Sloan
Augustine N. Smith
Russell E. Stachowski
Joseph W. Talnagi
James J. Thompson
Roger W. Tilbrook
Donald R. Todd
Neil E. Todreas
Nermin A. Uckan
Todd J. Urbatsch
Luc G. G. Van Den Durpel
Peter J. Vescovi
Edward G. Wallace
Paul P. Wilson
Arthur E. Wright
Loyd A. Wright
Kent L. Zernickow

Through their generous contributions, ANS patrons and benefactors demonstrate their commitment to furthering the mission of ANS. To join in supporting the Societys goals, include a donation ($250 to $499 to become a benefactor, $500 or more to become a patron) along with the ANS membership renewal form, or contact the ANS Membership Department at 800/323-3044 or members@ans.org.

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ANS student section approved at

the UAEs University of Sharjah
n June, during the 2014 ANS
Annual Meeting in Reno, Nev.,
the Board of Directors
approved the establishment of
an ANS student section at the
University of Sharjah in the
United Arab Emirates. It is the only
ANS student section outside of the
United States.
Students in the universitys nuclear
engineering program filed a petition to
become an ANS student section on
March 1, 2013. Thankfully, we were
admitted, said Sara Alawabdeh, vice

chair of the section. We are looking

forward to becoming an active member while facilitating effective communication with the Society.
In April 2008, the UAE began an
effort to establish a nuclear power program to address the increasing global
energy demand and climate-related
concerns. The country hopes to supply
25 percent of its electricity needs with
four power reactors by 2020. According to Alawabdeh, the University of
Sharjah is the only institution in the
UAE to offer a bachelors degree in

UOS nuclear engineering students and faculty attended a public forum of the UAEs Federal
Authority for Nuclear Regulation on May 5.

ANS HONORS & AWARDS

LOCAL SECTIONS MERITORIOUS AWARD
This award recognizes ANS local sections for success in areas such as management,
membership growth, public information efforts, meetings, and programs. Nominations
are due by September 1. Additional information is available online at www.ans.org/
honors/va-lsmerit.

UPCOMING DEADLINES
August 1

Landis Public Communication and Education Award, Distinguished

Service Award

August 15

Distinguished Public Service Award

September 1 Local Sections Meritorious Award

December 1 George C. Laurence Pioneering Award, Theos J. Tommy
Thompson Award
Additional information and nomination forms are available on the ANS website at
www.ans.org/honors/, or from ANS headquarters at 708/579-8290.

JULY/AUGUST 2014 ANS NEWS

The ANS University of Sharjah Student

Section logo

nuclear engineering.
The program accepted its first batch
of students in 2012, she said. There
are currently over 70 students in the
program, almost half of whom are
women. It is expected that, at steady
state, the program will have a total of
120140 students, Alawabdeh said.
According to Alawabdeh, the University of Sharjah offers a distinctive
style of teaching that prepares students
for leadership roles in society. As part
of its scholastic mission, she said, the
UOS is more than glad to host the first
ANS student section abroad in order to
prompt the personal, social, academic,
and career growth of all students, as
well as to establish constructive international relations.
The student section officers, in addition to Alawabdeh, are Moutaz Elias,
chair; Shaikha Alshamsi, executive
assistant; Aamirah Ashraf, treasurer;
Mohammed Aljallaf and Anhar AlMamari, event and community service
organizers; and Basant Sherif, media
contact and historian.
Most of the sections members are
nuclear engineering students, but other
engineering fields are represented as
well. ANS member Walid Metwally, an
associate professor at UOS and coordinator of the universitys nuclear and
mechanical engineering programs, is
the faculty advisor for the section.
The students are planning numerous
activities to spread awareness about
the importance of nuclear energy,
including welcome activities for freshmen, a book fair, an Atomic Fall Fest,
a nuclear walk-a-thon, a high school
career day, soccer and badminton tournaments, and seminars presented by
guest speakers from inside and outside
the university. A website is in the
works for the section as well.
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Get to Know Nuclear patch

for Girl Scouts established
NS has developed a Get to
Know Nuclear patch that Girl
Scouts can earn by participating
in a workshop offered by ANS local or
student sections or other groups. The
requirements for earning the patch and
an online toolkit for workshop planners
can be found on the ANS website at
www.ans.org/pi/resources/girlscouts/.
The development of the patch was
funded by ANSs Center for Nuclear
Science and Technology Information
and was accomplished through the collaboration of ANSs outreach manager,
Tracy Coyle, ANS members Natalie
Zaczek and Mary Ann Walsh, and Candice Schmidt, STEM program manager
for the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago
and Northwest Indiana.
What truly resonates with the girls
is that this patch allows them to meet
women nuclear engineers and experts,
Schmidt said. The activities are built to
spark an interest in girls to learn more

about nuclear science and other sciences.

Different requirements have been
established for Girl Scout Daisies, Juniors, Cadets, and Seniors. Cadets and
Seniors must fulfill a homework
requirement and attend a workshop
that includes at least five of the following seven topics: Half-Life, Fission vs.
Fusion, Careers, Radiation and Radioactivity, Seeing the Unseen, Modeling an
Atom, and Nuclear Technology Works.
The online toolkit that ANS offers is
similar to a toolkit that is available for
Boy Scout Nuclear Science Merit Badge
workshops. It features a project planning timeline, a sample agenda,
instructions for organizing the activities
that are required to earn the patch,
and sample presentations.
Coyle said, The Get to Know
Nuclear patch not only helps ANS promote the awareness and understanding
of the applications of nuclear science

Brady Raap attends meeting

of ANS Trinity Section
n May 9, then ANS Vice President/ President-Elect Michaele
Brady Raap attended a dinner
meeting of the ANS Trinity Section
where she presented a talk titled U.S.
DOE Laboratories and the Remediation of Fukushima Daiichi and offered
her thoughts about ANSs mission.
A question-and-answer session followed the presentation, and audience
members asked several questions about
the technical aspects of the Fukushima
activities that Brady Raap had
described, according to Bill Flor, incoming vice chair/chair-elect of the section.
The meeting was held at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, N.M., and the 68
attendees were given private access to
the museum both before and after the
presentation and dinner. The museum
made docents available to elaborate on
the exhibits, and several University of
New Mexico students who had presented posters at the 2014 ANS Student

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Conference displayed their posters and

were available to answer questions
about them.
During the meeting, the sections
new board members for 20142015

The two-inch diameter patches are available

for purchase online.

and technology, but it also reflects the

Girl Scout commitment to enhancing
the environmental and STEM [science,
technology, engineering, and math]
education of Girl Scouts.
Groups planning to sponsor a workshop can order patches from the ANS
Store, at www.ans.org/store/i_750082.
Groups must submit an agenda for
their workshop to ensure that they are
meeting the requirement to cover at
least five of the seven topics.

were introduced, as was the ANS UNM

Student Section president for 2014
2015. Also, the recipients of two Trinity
Section scholarships were announced.
During the coming year, the section
plans to offer quarterly dinner meetings, informal networking events, support for student section activities, and
public information and outreach activities, Flor said.

Photographed at the meeting were (from left) scholarship recipient Danielle Redhouse, Brady Raap,
Trinity Section Vice Chair/Chair-Elect John Bliss, UNM Student Section President David Saucier,
and UNM Student Section President-Elect Mario Ortega.

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S
NEW

ANS student section formed at the

University of California at Irvine
uring the 2014 ANS Annual
Meeting, held June 1519 in
Reno, Nev., the ANS Board of
Directors approved a petition
from students at the University
of California at Irvine to establish an ANS student section.
While UC Irvine does not currently
offer a nuclear engineering major, it is
the only university in California to have
an on-campus reactor operated by students, and it is one of two schools in
the state with a TRIGA reactor (UC
Davis is the other), according to Jeremy
Pearson, who as interim copresident
played a key role in organizing the section. The university offers an undergraduate minor and a graduate concentration in nuclear engineering.
Mikael Nilsson, an ANS member and
the faculty advisor for the student section, joined the UC Irvine Chemical
Engineering Department, which oper-

ates the reactor, in 2008. Nilsson specializes in solvent extraction and spent
nuclear fuel recycling, and according to
Pearson, his arrival spurred a flurry of
new interest in nuclear research on
campus. With the interest from professors and students, both graduate and
undergraduate, our nuclear reactor,
our proximity to General Atomics, the
ANS San Diego Section, and the San
Onofre Nuclear Generating Station,
and our universitys strong environmental thrust and a need for more
nuclear representation in California,
the timing felt right to start a student
section, Pearson said.
Interest grew during a series of informal activities, including on-campus
screenings of the documentaries Switch
and Pandoras Promise in the spring of
2013. The first board meeting was held
in October 2013. At a formal kickoff
meeting in January, Nilsson spoke about

his research, and ANS past president

Ted Quinn and other members of the
San Diego Section presented a donation
of $750 on behalf of the section.
Since then, numerous meetings with
invited speakers have been held, and
Pearson says several more high-profile
speakers have expressed an interest in
visiting UC Irvine and giving presentations. The student section has developed statements on policy issues, and
has organized a tour of General Atomics fusion reactor.
The sections officers for fall 2014
are Kara Phillips, president, Cameron
Wong, treasurer, Ethan Boado, secretary/membership, and Eric Severini,
webmaster/newsletter editor. The student section is responsible for organizing the student program and activities
at the upcoming ANS Winter Meeting
in Anaheim, and Pearson and Phillips
are cochairing that effort.

Brady Raap visits

ANS Virginia Section
n May 15, then ANS Vice
President/President-Elect
Michaele Brady Raap attended
a meeting of the ANS Virginia Section where she spoke about what the
Department of Energys national laboratories are doing to help with the
remediation of the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear site in Japan. Brady Raap also
spoke about her goals as ANS president.
The audience was captivated by her
presentation, which included a lot of
before-and-after photos of the Fukushima site, said section chair Brian Vitiello. The audience was also very interested in the various strategies being
used to deal with groundwater intrusion at the site.
Following her presentation, Brady
Raap met briefly with several section
members, including newly elected ANS
Vice President/President-Elect Eugene
Grecheck, to discuss how the Virginia
Section and ANS can foster the development of nuclear science and technology in Virginia.

JULY/AUGUST 2014 ANS NEWS

NINE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

attended a May 13 meeting of Florida governor Rick Scott and his cabinet where the final
state-level site selection determination for two new AP1000 reactors at the Turkey Point site
was made. The studentsLucianne Behar, Logan Blohm, Joseph Cashwell, Hernan Godoy,
Jitesh Kuntawala, Madison Martin, Patrick Moo, Jonathan Rosales, and Nicolas Silvawho are
all members of the ANS UF Student Section, offered testimony as a group in favor of the reactors, according to Jerry Paul, an ANS member and director of the Energy Information Center.
They were very effective, said Paul, who helped organize the students attendance at the hearing. In fact, they somewhat stole the show. I counted six times when another speaker (including
the governor) made reference to them. The UF students were joined for this photo by Attorney
General Pam Bondi (third from left), Governor Scott (center), Agriculture Commissioner Adam
Putnam (second from right), and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater (far right). The governor
and his cabinet voted unanimously to approve the site selection for the reactors. Florida Power &
Light Company hopes to begin generating electricity from the first new reactor in mid-2022.

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New Generation, New Ideas, New Nuclear

n March, the ANS Young
Members Group announced a
contest to come up with a slogan to describe the YMG and
to convey its objective of supporting the integration of
young professionals into ANS and representing their needs.
The winning slogan, New Generation, New Ideas, New Nuclear,
received 46 percent of the vote in an
online poll against nine other finalists,
including the runner up, Keeping the
Next Generation Critical, which
received 21 percent of the vote, Fusing the energy of young professionals
with the power of ANS, and ANS
Young Members Group: Join for
enrichment!
When asked why the YMG decided
it needed a slogan, past YMG chair
Gale Hauck said, YMG is often fighting to reach a disappearing demographic of ANS. Student members
graduate, get lost in the Society, dont
know we exist, and end up leaving the
Society. Other young members join
ANS as professionals and spend
months or years trying to get more
involved before they discover YMG
and the resources we can provide. We
felt that a catchy slogan could help
raise awareness of YMG and help
young members find us, which in turn
will let us help them to find their place
in ANS. Plus, its a fun way for our
members to participate and get

NEW MEMBERS
The ANS members and student members
listed below joined the Society in April and
May 2014.

A
Adams, Scott R., James Fisher Technologies
Anderson, Christopher J., U.S. Army
Anderson, Robert W., U.S. Department of
Energy
Ardila, Antonio F., Los Alamos National
Laboratory

B
Bai, Xianming, Idaho National Laboratory
Bailey, Scott A., NuScale Power
Baldwin, Charles, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory

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be cool, right?
The new slogan was announced on
June 16 at a YMG meeting held during
the ANS Annual Meeting in Reno, Nev.
The author of the winning slogan,
Lenka Kollar, was in attendance and
will be selecting a nuclear-themed print
by Megan Lee Studio as her prize.

engaged.
Were still determining different
ways the slogan will be put to use, she
said, but I think the contest announcement told the appropriate story: Imagine your words on television! Billboards! In lights! Or maybe just on
websites and tee shirts. That would still

THE ANS VCU STUDENT SECTION HELD ITS THIRD BOY SCOUT MERIT BADGE
workshop on April 12. Forty-four Boy Scoutsthe highest attendance yet for a Virginia Commonwealth Universitysponsored Boy Scout workshopspent the day in pursuit of a Nuclear Science
Merit Badge, learning about atoms, radiation, and atomic energy, participating in laboratory
experiments, and touring VCUs Nuclear Simulator Lab. The success of the event was apparent
from the enthusiasm of the Scouts, as well as thank-you letters we received from the parents after
the workshop, said Enerel Munkhzul, student section president. In fact, a few of the Scouts
attended the workshop for the second time. The student section plans to make the workshop an
annual spring event and to eventually add a nuclear science workshop for Girl Scouts in the fall.

Bhave, Ramesh, Oak Ridge National

Laboratory
Britt, Jack V., URENCO USA
Burgin, David S., PSEG Nuclear

C
Carisse, Katarzyna, Ontario Power
Generation (Canada)
Cavalieri, Rodney, AREVA Inc.
Chernatynskiy, Aleksandr, University of
Florida
Clarity, Justin B., Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
Cleary, Sam, recent graduate
Cognata, Allen M., recent graduate
Conning, Bruce E., AREVA NP Canada
Crockett, Heather C., U.S. Department of
Energy

D
Devanathan, Ram, Battelle
DeVries, Gilbert A., Exelon Nuclear
Diggans, Brad R., Rolls-Royce
DiMascio, Philip M., recent graduate
Duckworth, Robert C., Oak Ridge National
Laboratory

E
Eberstein, Igor J., NASA

F
Farias, Jesus R., Electric Power Research
Institute
Farmer, Mitchell T., Argonne National
Laboratory
Fei, Tingzhou, Argonne National Laboratory
Ford, Michael J., U.S. Navy
Fox, William A., III, Generation mPower
Fritz, Oliver, Schott AG (Germany)

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G
Genovese, Regina, PPL Susquehanna
Goter, Thomas P., Bechtel Marine
Propulsion Corp.
Greencorn, Nancy M., Atomic Energy of
Canada Limited

H
Hahn, Kevin A., U.S. Department of Energy
Hu, Xunxiang, University of Tennessee
Knoxville

J
Johansen, Peter, Idaho Department of
Environmental Quality
Jurek, Shane, PPL Susquehanna

K
Kershaw, Keith, CERN (Switzerland)
Kikura, Hiroshige, Tokyo Institute of
Technology (Japan)
Kiltie, John S., Rolls-Royce (U.K.)
Kim, Jungho, University of Maryland
Kliefoth, A. Bernhard, III, M.D.
Koyanagi, Takaaki, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory

L
Lee, Byeonghee, Korea Atomic Energy
Research Institute
Lee, Chi-Szu, Atomic Energy Council
(Taiwan)
Littles, Robert L., PPL Susquehanna

M
Marshall, Margaret, Idaho National
Laboratory
May, Kevin P., Brasfield & Gorrie LLC
McClain, Karmen B., consultant
McCrory, Fredrick M., Sandia National
Laboratories

STUDENT MEMBERS
Air Force Institute of Technology
McIntee, Nicholas J.

Mei, Zhigang, Argonne National Laboratory

Meyer, Matthew R., U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission
Mitchell, Lana, Alion Science and
Technology Corp.
Mizuno, Hiroshi, Varian Medical Systems
Mo, Kun, Argonne National Laboratory
Moore, Samuel C., AREVA Inc.
Morton, Trenton, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

N
Nycz, Andrzej, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory

O
Oduwole, Adefisayo, Morehouse School of
Medicine

P
Parkison, Adam J., Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Peterson, Celeste C., Duke Energy
Prince, Rose, University of Michigan

R
Renzi, Vincent, Engineering Planning and
Management
Richards, Andrew, U.S. Department of
Energy

S
Saleh, Tarik, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Sanchez, Luis M., United Controls
International
Schlegel, Joshua P., Missouri University of
Science and Technology
Serrano, David A., U.S. Navy
Shih, Lifang, Excelsior College
Smalldridge, Bradley A., Day & Zimmermann
Smith, Michael S., AREVA Federal Services

Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Su, Guanyu

Boise State University

Dolph, Corey K.

Missouri University of Science and

Technology
Akyurek, Tayfun

Cape Fear Community College

Baker, Ammon M.

North Carolina State University

Annamareddy, Venkata A.

Chattanooga State Community

College
Teeters, Colby L.

Oregon State University

Franco, Daniel A.
Halsted, Joshua K.

City College of New York

Zia, Wahab

Pennsylvania State University

Cinbiz, Mahmut N.
Couet, Adrien
Gomez, Ana J.
Topbasi, Cem

Drexel University
Fuhrer, Eyal M.
Garvin, Ryan P.
Idaho State University
Hoffman, Andrew K.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology
Lee, Haneol
Venneri, Paolo F.

Pima Community College

Mason, Gary
Purdue University
Ludwig, Cailyn B.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Noll, William B.

JULY/AUGUST 2014 ANS NEWS

Souccar, Karim, Zachry Nuclear Engineering

Storr, Greg J., ANSTO (Australia)
Sullivan, Joseph C., Constellation Energy
Szczyglowska, Maria E., Rolls-Royce (U.K.)

T
Tasker, Jet E., Intellectual Ventures
Thomas, Andrew E., Idaho National
Laboratory
Tolbert, J. J., FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Co.
Torralbo, Jose R., Nuclenor S.A. (Spain)
Tremblay, Joseph R., Atomic Energy of
Canada Limited
Tripp, Christopher S., U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
Tschaepe, Lee P., Wolf Creek Nuclear
Operating Corp.

U
Uhran, Mark L., UT-Battelle

V
van den Broek, J. J., NRG (Netherlands)

W
Walter, Otto J., American Nuclear Insurers
Weisenberg, Kerry, Atomic Energy of
Canada Limited
Wood, Christopher F., Progressive
Engineering

Y
Yang, Yeh-Shien, Taiwan Power Company

Z
Zhang, Yongfeng, Idaho National Laboratory

Texas A&M University

Ghaddar, Tarek H.
Pate, Michal J.
Stratton, Charles D.
Sweeney, David J.
Tsinghua University (China)
Gao, Lijun
University of ColoradoDenver
Marshall, Analise M.
University of Florida
Silva, Nicolas
University of Idaho
Skavdahl, Isaac
University of IllinoisUrbanaChampaign
Liu, Xiang
Miao, Yinbin
Mouche, Peter A.
Zhong, Weicheng
University of Missouri
Campbell, Shawn
Mason, Paul

University of New Mexico

Cowen, Benjamin J.
Toleman, Nathan F.
University of South Carolina
Nguyen, Khai V.
University of TennesseeKnoxville
Clark, Daniel W.
Hackelton, Jonathan
Harris, David M.
Harvey, Richard D.
Jones, Elizabeth L.
Palomares, Raul I.
Pope, Thomas C.
Tsai, Pi-En
Wellington, Tracey-Ann
Welz, Zachary A.
University of TexasArlington
Frnka, John G.
University of WisconsinMadison
Kalra, Arjun K.

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