Upcoming meeting dates:
TBD
September 22, 2016
Nevada Section Technical Meeting
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016, 6pm Networking, 7pm Talk
Location: Santa Fe Hotel/Casino, Feast Buffet, GO DIRECTLY TO THE CONFERENCE ROOM, DO NOT WAIT IN THE BUFFET LINE
Topic: Nuclear Waste Solutions for the United States
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Moltz
Ph.D., Nuclear Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1979)
Cost: $20 for the buffet meal
July 28, 2016
Special Joint Meeting of the NV Local Section and the UNLV Student Section
Date: July 28th, 2016
May 1, 2015
Technical Member Meeting
Date: Friday, May 1, 2015 at 5:30 P.M.
Location: Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Flamingo Blvd. Conference Room 181 (two story building east of the NATM)
Speaker: Evan Sengbusch, Phoenix Nuclear Labs
Topic: Accelerator-Based Neutron Generator to Drive Sub-Critical Medical Isotope Production System
Summary:
Phoenix Nuclear Labs (PNL) is an early stage technology design and manufacturing company that has developed a proprietary neutron generator technology. Over the past eight years, PNL scientists and engineers have designed and built several generations of neutron generators. PNL’s novel gas target neutron generator technology has achieved a D-D fusion neutron yield of 3e11 n/s. This state-of-the-art neutron generator technology is essential for many applications of critical global importance including neutron radiography, medical isotope production, detection of explosives and nuclear material, materials characterization, and others. The production of medical isotopes has been a particularly important objective for PNL. Phoenix Nuclear Labs spun off a new company (SHINE Medical Technologies) to utilize its patented neutron generator technology to produce medical isotopes in 2010. The SHINE system employs an accelerator-driven, low-enriched uranium (LEU) solution in a geometry optimized for high-efficiency isotope production. Neutrons produced by deuterium-tritium fusion reactions in the accelerator target drive fission in the subcritical LEU solution.
January 29, 2015
Technical Member Meeting
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 5:30 P.M.
Location: Desert Research Institute /755 E. Flamingo Blvd., Conference Room 181 (two-story building east of the NATM)
Speaker: Siegfried L. Stockinger, P.E.
Topic: Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition (UFD) Campaign of the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s Storage and Transportation Program
December 11, 2014
Nevada Section Technical Meeting
Date: December 11, 2014
Location: Springs Preserve, Garden Terrace Room / 333 S. Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89107
Topic: U.S. DOE Laboratories and the Remediation of Fukushima Dai-Ichi
Presenter: Mikey Brady Raap, Ph.D., ANS President
Summary:
As we get together again for this year’s society winter dinner, the American Nuclear Society is excited to be able to provide our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Mikey Brady Raap. Dr. Brady Raap is the current ANS President, and a chief engineer with the Nuclear Systems Design, Engineering & Analysis Group within the National Security Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington. She is the recipient of ANS’ Special Recognition Award for Media for her service during the Fukushima Accident, 2011. PNNL provides technical assistance to the Tokyo Electric Power Company for the remediation of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Her presentation will discuss Waste Management, Analytical Labs, Damaged Fuel & Debris Disposition, Grouting and Sealing Technologies, Groundwater Control and Treatment and Community Revitalization.