{"id":75,"date":"2012-10-17T00:16:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T00:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.ans.org\/norcal\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2025-05-27T15:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:46:47","slug":"past-meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/local.ans.org\/norcal\/meetings\/past-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Past ANS NorCal Section Dinner Meeting Speakers and Topics<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Slaybaugh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, Nuclear and Innovating in the Energy Industry, 9\/16<\/a><\/p>\n

Alireza Moharrer, P.E., Professional Project Manager, GSU transformer fires and reliability; A look at the importance of Generator Step-Up transformers, GSUs, 5\/16<\/u><\/p>\n

Dawn Banghart, CHP, Alternate Radiation Safety Officer\/Senior Health Physicist, Stanford University, Doc will I glow in the dark? The Use of Radioisotopes in Cancer Therapy, 3\/16<\/u><\/p>\n

Howard Matis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Detecting Cosmic Rays with the Berkeley Lab Muon Detector, 1\/16<\/u><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Alexander Cannara, Cannara Consulting, Molten Salt and Thorium Nuclear Power (MSR \/ LFTR), 11\/15<\/u><\/p>\n

Jim Hopf, Nuclear Engineer, Contributing Author, ANS Nuclear Cafe, Towards a Level Playing Field – Nuclear Power and Government Policy, 10\/15<\/u><\/p>\n

Max Henrion, Lumina Decision Systems,?Surprises and Black Swans in Energy Forecasts, Past and Future, 4\/15<\/a><\/p>\n

Craig Sawyer & Chuck Boardman, ABWR, ESBWR, and PRISM – Three Generations of General Electric Reactors, 3\/15<\/a><\/p>\n

Bobby Bakshi, Operations Manager, Westinghouse San Jose – Current Projects and Operations, 2\/15<\/a><\/p>\n

Kai Vetter, Professor in Residence, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Radwatch and Radiological Resilience, 1\/15<\/a><\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Slaybaugh, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, PyNE Collection of Nuclear Engineering Computational Tools, 10\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Garrett Baltz, Undergraduate Student, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, Westinghouse Intern Experience, 9\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Susana Reyes, LLNL, Closing the Fusion Fuel Cycle: Tritium Recovery and Processing, 5\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Karl van Bibber, Department Chair, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, 4\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric L. Harvey, Senior Engineer, ERIN Engineering, Nuclear Power Advocacy in California, 2\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

Ian Thompson, Nuclear Physicist, LLNL, The Halo at the Center of the Atom, 1\/14<\/a><\/p>\n

2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Bowermaster, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Electric Transportation: Power Delivery and Utilization, 11\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Thomas Carter, Westinghouse Overview and AP1000 – Plant Projects Update,?10\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Sylvain Costes, LBNL, Breast Tissue DNA Repair After Exposure to Ionizing Radiation, 5\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Adam Bernstein, LLNL, Applied Antineutrino Physics: “The Near-Field and the Far-Field,” 4\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Corradini, ANS President, America’s Energy Challenge: Why the U.S. Needs Nuclear Power, 3\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Alireza Moharrer, ANS NORCAL Section Member,?Utilization of Solar Energy in the United States, 2\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

Gwyneth Cravens, Author of: ?The Power to Save the World.? The Truth about Nuclear Energy,” Getting Past ?Us versus Them,” 1\/13<\/a><\/p>\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Buchholz, LLNL, Exploiting the Carbon-14 Bomb-Pulse with Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, 12\/12<\/p>\n

Susana Reyes, LLNL, The LIFE Project, 11\/12<\/a><\/p>\n

Pete Miller, DOE Assist. Secretary for Nuclear Energy (2010-2012), The Federal Govt. and Nuclear Power, 10\/12<\/p>\n

Kenji Tateiwa, TEPCO, Fukushima Experiences, 7\/12<\/p>\n

Bryce Johnson, ANS NorCal Member, Limits on CO2-induced Global Warming, 5\/12<\/p>\n

Eric Loewen, ANS President, PRISM Liquid Sodium Reactor, 4\/12<\/p>\n

Marjorie Shapiro, UC Berkeley, The Search for the Higgs Boson, 3\/12<\/p>\n

Gayle Sugiyama, LLNL, NARAC Response to Fukushima, 2\/12<\/p>\n

Carolyn Wang,?Combined meeting with Health Physics Society, Fukushima, 1\/12<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jay Zucca, LLNL, Current issues in nonproliferation and arms control, 12\/11<\/p>\n

Susan Fry, Bay Delta Office Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Bay Delta Water, 11\/11<\/p>\n

Siegfried Hecker, Stanford University, North Korean nuclear weapons program, 10\/11<\/p>\n

Mark Bandstra, UCB Nuclear Engineering, Fukushima fallout monitoring at UCB, 9\/11<\/p>\n

Group discussion on nuclear energy outreach, 5\/11<\/p>\n

Lynn Walls, Retired Director of Public Affairs for GE, Wind Energy, 4\/11<\/p>\n

Joe Colvin, ANS National President, 3\/11<\/p>\n

Jim Blink, LLNL, Yucca Mountain, 2\/11<\/p>\n

Les Jardine, L.J. Jardine Services, The Russian Nuclear Power Renaissance, 1\/11<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roger Aines, LLNL, Carbon Sequestration, 12\/10<\/p>\n

David Dearborn, LLNL, Deflection of near-earth asteroids, 11\/10<\/p>\n

Robert Hamm, R&M Technical Enterprises, Industrial Uses of Accelerators, 10\/10<\/p>\n

Tsahi Gozani, Rapiscan Systems, Neutron-based Inspection Technologies, 9\/10<\/p>\n

John Hutson, Fresno Nuclear Group, 5\/10<\/p>\n

Thuy Le, San Jose State Univ., Nuclear Power in Vietnam, 4\/10<\/p>\n

A.J. Simon, LLNL, Energy Systems Modeling, 3\/10<\/p>\n

Tom Sanders, ANS President, Nuclear Energy in the World, 2\/10<\/p>\n

John Conway, PG&E Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, Energy Plans at PG&E, 1\/10<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Corporandi, DOE Livermore Site Office, DOE Nuclear Energy Plans, 12\/09<\/p>\n

Joel Swanson, LLNL, DOE Radiological Emergency Response, 11\/09<\/p>\n

Grant Logan, LBL, Heavy Ion Fusion, 10\/09<\/p>\n

Joe Somsel, Toshiba\/Westinghouse, ABWR Program, 9\/09<\/p>\n

Ed Sayre, Engineering Consultant, The value of spent nuclear fuel, 5\/09<\/p>\n

Chuck DeVore, California State Assemblyman, Nuclear Power in California, 4\/09<\/p>\n

Jane Long, LLNL, Global Energy and Climate Change, 3\/09<\/p>\n

Kevin Gahagan, Mosaic Financial Partners, Financial lessons from 2008, 2\/09<\/p>\n

Jeff Latkowsky, LLNL, The LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy)?Project, 1\/09<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bob Yamamoto, LLNL, Solid State Heat Capacity Laser, 12\/08<\/p>\n

Dan Chivers, LBL, Nuclear Threats and Homeland Security, 11\/08<\/p>\n

Terry Oldberg, Consultant, Information Theory: Maximizing Knowledge, 10\/08<\/p>\n

Chris Nelder, Author and consultant, Peak Oil, 9\/08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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