Energy Needs Generate New Nuclear Opportunities
Industry leaders meet this week to explore future applications of nuclear technology at the American Nuclear Society’s 2005 Annual Meeting, “The Next 50 years: Creating Opportunities.” Attendees will explore the latest nuclear research, sharing nearly 300 technical papers June 5-9 at the Town & Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
La Grande Park, IL (PRWEB) June 6, 2005 -- Government officials, industry
executives and principal researchers meet this week to explore future
applications of nuclear technology at the American Nuclear Society’s 2005 Annual
Meeting, “The Next 50 years: Creating Opportunities.” Attendees will explore the
latest nuclear research, sharing nearly 300 technical papers June 5-9 at the
Town & Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego, Calif.
“The
nuclear profession has a brighter future today than it has had at anytime over
the last 20 years,” stated Larry Papay, General Chair of the event. “As a
profession, it is unified in its goal to achieve sustainable development goals
and this is apparent at these meetings where we look to work on solutions
together."
At 8:30 a.m., Monday’s Opening Plenary, “The Next 50 Years:
Creating Opportunities,” features welcoming remarks from Papay and ANS President
James Tulenko. The Plenary launches the annual event with key leadership from
the nuclear industry who offer context for the solutions their scientists and
engineers have developed.
Plenary Speakers include:
- Clay Sell
(Deputy Secretary of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy)
- Peter Lyons
(Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
- Admiral John
Grossenbacher (Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory)
- Andrew C.
White (President and CEO, GE Nuclear Energy)
- Richard Meserve (President,
Carnegie Institution of Washington)
- Samuel Ting (Thomas Dudley Cabot
Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The General
Chair’s Special Session on Monday afternoon that will address advanced fuel
cycles beyond Yucca Mountain. On Tuesday afternoon, “Manpower for the Nuclear
Industry…A continuing need,” will be addressed in the President’s Special
Session. The Space Nuclear Conference 2005 takes places concurrently as an
embedded topical meeting. The complete program is available at www.ans.org/meetings/annual/.
Meeting officials with
Mr. Papay, who is a California consultant, include Honorary General Chair
Senator Pete V. Domenici, Assistant General Chair Ken Schultz from General
Atomics, and General Chair Emeritus Loyd Wright of Southern California
Edison.
The American Nuclear Society is a not-for-profit, scientific and
educational organization. ANS has a diverse membership composed of 10,500
engineers, scientists, administrators, and educators who seek to exchange
scientific and technical research, encourage scholarship, and disseminate
information on nuclear science and technology.
For more information:
Laura Hermann
708-579-8224
Note yo media: ANS welcomes the media
to register for complimentary conference badges at www.ans.org/meetings/annual/registration/. Or visit the ANS
Media Center in the Lanai Parlor 1108 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., June
6-8.
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