Nuclear Medicine Radiates Hope For Patients
By Emma Meyers As a fourth year nursing student working in Chicago area hospitals, I deal with nuclear medicine quite often. The term “nuclear medicine” can sound disconcerting, but when you are...
View ArticleThe Mother of Radiation: Marie Curie
By Kaitlyn Butler The start of Marie Curie’s story isn’t like most of the other scientists that had made a name for themselves throughout history, mostly because she was a grown woman by the start of...
View ArticleListen: ANS Member Dr. Christopher Morrison on Space Radiation & More
ANS member Dr. Christopher Morrison was a recent guest on The Space Show. Dr. Morrison covered space radiation, lifetime radiation limitations, legal limits, rodent GCR and radiation experimentation,...
View ArticleEBR-1 in Photos
by Will Davis December 20, 1951 marks an important date in the history of nuclear power; it’s the date on which the first useful electric power was generated by atomic fission. While the now-famous...
View ArticleLooking Back: A Brief History of CONTE
By Dr. Jane LeClair The accident that occurred at Three Mile Island on March 28, 1979, brought about many changes to the nuclear industry. Among the changes was the industry stopping to reflect on...
View Article2019 – A Wish List in Nuclear Energy
by Will Davis Welcome to 2019! I hope everyone who took a break enjoyed it. For those who didn’t, why didn’t you? Initially, I had thoughts of trying to separate from social media and news to a...
View ArticlePresident Signs Pro-Nuclear Legislation
By Dr. James Conca Two bipartisan pieces of legislation modernizing America’s nuclear future have recently become law. It’s still a long way from pushing nuclear builds the way we need to address a...
View ArticleAre the Tides Turning for Advanced U.S. Nuclear?
By Doug Hardtmayer Welcome to the New Year! Even though I am on the road, there is just so much happening lately in nuclear I could not pass up the opportunity to talk about it! This episode of...
View ArticleANS Friday Nuclear Matinee 2/1: Vogtle Timeline Update
Our latest ANS Nuclear Cafe Matinee film is the latest video update by Southern Company on the progress of the Vogtle nuclear plant expansion. This video runs just over seven minutes and brings you...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear is an Emerging Technology for the Space Economy
By Dr. Christopher Morrison Nuclear energy has played a key supporting role in historic missions to Mars, Pluto, and across the Solar System for the last 50 years. On January 1 2019, the...
View ArticleShow Engineering Love During EWeek, February 17-23
By Janice Lindegard Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, Engineers Week (EWeek), is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by...
View ArticleNew Year, New Committee, Diversity and Inclusion in ANS
By Dr. Lane Carasik As I write this, I’m excited to know the future of the American Nuclear Society will involve the activities and efforts of the newly formed Diversity and Inclusion in ANS (DIA)...
View ArticleHonoring Dr. Leona Woods – #Herstory
By Rita Patel During March’s Women’s History Month, I honor Leona Woods by telling #herstory. American Physicist Dr. Leona Woods is best known for her work on the now famous Manhattan Project and...
View ArticleBe the change you want to see in the world
By Dr. Matthew Jasica and Alyse Huffman What does it mean to be a leader? That question is at the heart of the Young Professionals Congress 2019 (YPC19). YPC19 is a one-day event, organized by the ANS...
View ArticleExperimental Breeder Reactor I: A retrospective
By Will Searight In the not-so-distant 20th century past, our planet was in an uncertain new-world order. The second of two major wars had dramatically reshaped the landscape of the world’s nations. It...
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