It’s time to make plans to attend the American Nuclear Society’s 2012 Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo, this year held in San Diego, Calif., on November 11–15 at the Town and Country Resort & Conference Center.
The theme of the meeting is “Future Nuclear Technologies: Resilience and Flexibility.” In addition to regular technical sessions throughout the week, the meeting will include the embedded topical meeting “Advances in Thermal Hydraulics” (ATH ’12), as well as the “International Meeting on Severe Accident Assessment and Management: Lessons Learned from Fukushima Dai-ichi.”
Some other meeting highlights will include the ANS President’s Reception, professional development workshops, technical sessions, and tours of some of the many attractions of San Diego.
Online registration is open, and more information about the meeting is available at the Winter Meeting 2012 website. We look forward to seeing you in San Diego.
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Be nice if ANS devoted a conference to public nuclear education and the mass media and inherent biases. We shouldn’t have to reply on sheer political muscle to override public votes and fearful attitudes to build a nuclear site. Such attitudes is the well where Arnie and Helen draw their strength — off public ignorance about nuclear power, and it works because we have to fight tooth and nail to keep plants open much less built. Doing local neighborhood nuclear awareness programs are noble efforts but they aren’t going to cut the mustard when the likes of Arnie and Helen are international influences highly recognized by the media. We need Carl Sagan-like nuclear prophets on a similar world stage tackling Arnies head-on and sowing the truth if we’re going to make any real serious gains in wholesale positive public nuclear perceptions. Thorium and Fusion devotees won’t ever see their dreams realized if the non-discriminating public isn’t educated or convinced that _current_ nuclear power isn’t the Darth Vader that the antis and media have cracked it up as. Surely a relevant topic at least worth shoehorning into a conference between coffee breaks!
James Greenidge
Queens NY