LNS will present a 2024 Boy Scout Nuclear Science Merit Badge workshop at a date to be determined for Fall 2024. The workshop is held at the River Bend nuclear plant in St.Francisville, LA. Contact LNS at (LouisianaNuclearSociety@gmail.com) or Paul Sicard (psicard@entergy.com) of Entergy and LNS for more information.
1. Support ANS public policy activities on the state and local level.
2. Provide information to the public on the benefits of nuclear science and technology.
3. Facilitate the sharing of information among nuclear professionals on the local level.
4. Create networking opportunities for nuclear professionals on the local level.
5. Promote ANS products, programs, and services, including Society membership.
The American Nuclear Society is celebrating 60 years as the premier society for nuclear professionals. Our individual membership ranks include more than 10,000 engineers, scientists, educators, students, and others with nuclear related interests. Our members hail from more than 1,600 corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies from over 40 different countries. More than 80 industry-leading companies support the ANS as Organization Members.
ANS, a not-for-profit society, provides extensive opportunities for every professional group in the nuclear field to interact effectively via 22 divisions and technical groups, 59 U.S. and 10 non-U.S. local sections, 3 plant branches, and 43 U.S. and 3 non-U.S. student sections
The Society serves as an advocate for individuals and organizations having a stake in nuclear science and technology. Our Washington, D.C. office acts as a technical resource to senior policy and decision makers. ANS produces position papers on nuclear science and technology issues of our times, publishing these in print and on our website.
** November 2023: Dillon Allen, Senior Manager-Advanced Nuclear Development, Entergy: Advanced Nuclear Power (e.g., Small Modular Reactors)
** October 2023: Joe Cleary, Westinghouse: Additive Manufacturing (3-D printing) for Nuclear Fuel
** April 2023: LSU Professor Jeffrey Chancellor on Space Radiation Shielding
** January 2023: ANS National President and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distinguished R&D Staff Member Steven Arndt, "How ANS is Advancing Nuclear Science and Technology and How You Can Help"
** August 2022: Chris Burton, Structural Technologies LLC: "Circulating Water Pipeline Repair"
** April 2022: David Smith, Entergy: "Accident Tolerant Fuel"
** February 2022: ANS National President Steve Nesbit, "Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste Management"
** November 2021: Gale Hauck, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "Working at Barakah"
** October 2021: Professor Robert Hayes, NC State University: "Risk-Informed Performance-Based ALARA"
** July 2021: Rich Hirsch (retired): "The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine"
** January 2021: showing of movie "Juice: How Electricity Explains the World"
** January 2021: ANS National President Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, "Where is the Love? Why isn't Nuclear Energy Embraced as THE Clean Energy Source?"
** September 2020: Gilbane Gold, an engineering ethics case study
** December 2019: Tour of the LSU Water Campus
** October 2019: We are all Stardust: Using Nuclear Physics to Understand Stellar Explosions
Dr.Catherine Deibel
LSU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
** August 2019: Use of Drones at Nuclear Power Plants
Chris Burton, Structural Technologies LLS
** March 2019: Molten Salt Reactor Designs
** February 2019: (Health Physics Society) Medical Events Reporting and Safety Culture in Healthcare
Jennifer Elee, Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality
** September 2018: Engineering Ethics: Engineers and the Organization
** April 2018: NuScale Small Modular Reactor
Rowland Linford
** February 2018: Doses to Members of the Public from I-131 Patient Release
Dr. Nolan Hertel, Georgia Institute of Technology, President-Elect Health Physics Society
Sponsored by Deep South Chapter - Health Physics Society
** January 2018: The Louisiana Public Service Commission
Dr. Craig Greene, LPSC Commissioner, District 2
** November 2017: When Safe & Secure Are Not Enough: Nuclear Communications
Elizabeth Fako, Entergy Corporate Communications
** July 2017: Entergy Hurricane Storm Preparations
Louis Dabdoub III, Entergy Director of Incident Response ("Storm Boss")
** November 2016: Mike the Tiger's Radiography and Cancer Treatment
Dr. Jonas Fontenot, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
| Chair: | Jerrod Ewing | |
| Vice-Chair: | Clint Alday | |
| Secretary: | Greg Svestka | |
| Treasurer: | Paul Sicard * | |
| Exec.Committee: | Jessica Soileau Canning | |
| Exec.Committee: | Remy DeVoe | |
| Exec.Committee: | Rowland Linford | |
| Exec.Committee: | Leo Nadeau | |
| Exec.Committee: | Dean Sandlin |
* Professional Development Coordinator
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