Minutes of Summer Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Division
Executive Meeting in Milwaukee WI Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1000-1200, 17
June 2001

Note Taker -- Jeffrey Randorf

Attendees:

Tom Larson, INEEL, tkl@inel.gov, 208-526-5775

Bob Singleterry, NASA, r.c.singleterry@larc.nasa.gov, 757-864-1437

Mari Groshner, BWX Technologies, mariastar@adelphia.net, 804-522-6092

Donald McEligot, INEEL, dm6@inel.gov, 208-526-2881

Jeffrey Randorf, BMDO, jeffrey.randorf@bmdo.osd.mil, 703-697-6477

Andrew Prichard, PNNL, andrew.prichard@pnl.gov, 509-372-4137

Ham Hunter, ORNL, hunterht@ornl.gov, 865-574-6297

Bojan Petrovic, Westinghouse, PetrovB@westinghouse.com, 412-256-1295

Ken Chidester, LANL, kchidester@lanl.gov, 505-667-2358

George Miley, UI, g-miley@uiuc.edu, 217-333-3772

Started at 1000 (Informally, due to room change)

o Two outstanding issues

We informally started the meeting with two outstanding issues - the next
meeting time and the next balloting. We stated Sundays were a good time.
Robert talked about the need for a new round of officer ballots (we had
done the last via e-mail).

o The minutes of the last meeting were accepted.

o By-Laws

Another topic discussed were the By-Laws, which were to be a likely
priority for this group. Bill Cochran was a draftee of the minutes. The
Criticality Division was in the process of rewriting their By-Laws.
There was discussion concerning the use of another division's By-Laws as
a go-by, Thermohydraulics. Singleterry mentioned that writing a set of
By-Laws was a cut-n-paste operation off the ANS web site. Alenka
Brown-Vanhosen was currently working on the by-laws.

o Reno 8G session

We had eight papers for the sessions. A deadline for submission was 26
June. We were all encouraged to get submissions in.

o Seeing the PDC

Dr. Singleterry was to see Don Hoffman of the Professional Division
Committee (PDC) on Tuesday. There was a discussion of the 2002
presentation to the Board of Directors.

o Recap of the Elections

We swung back to the ballot dicussion above. Based on the last Board of
Directors Meeting, this group needs to elect officers. E-mail ballots
were sent out. The names were submitted to Sharon Kerrick. We received
50 ballots. There was discussion on how to access the list server.

o Old papers and Presentations

Ham Hunter stated we would be treated as a division within ANS based on
his information. There were discussions about presentations being placed
on a server, hosted by Hunter's Oak Ridge group. A URL was mentioned,
presentations.ans.org.

\*\* Bob Larson Formally started the Meeting \*\*

Nine Distinct Items Discussed

1)  Website - Larson and Singleterry were to get with Headquarters'
    Informtion Technology folks and inquire about placing space-related
    nuclear materials on a web site.

2)  More on the By-laws -- Larson and Brown-Vanhosen were to get
    together in 1.5 months to work on the by-laws. A draft set was to be
    ready and sent out by August 1, sent out via e-mail. They were to
    confirm with Sharon Kerrick on some specifics.

3)  Session Topics -- Larson then moved on the topics for the Hollywood
    FL meeting. This had to do with National Program Committee needing
    the session topics. The taxonomy he explained was "Theme -- Track --
    Session". The initial set offered to the group was Deep Space,
    Historical, Manufacturing, Propulsion, and Fluidics. The final set
    with group consensus was Lessons Learned, Fluid/Thermal,
    Re-vitalization, Launch Approval, and Space Applications. There was
    talk of rounding up some invited papers.

4)  STAIF -- Next, Singleterry mentioned an issue with the Space
    Technology Applications International Forum (STAIF). Should this ANS
    group help STAIF? A name mentioned was Mary Braggs of ANS HQ. The
    thought was to establish a Topical/Embedded Subject meeting between
    the two. Or should it be a completely ANS venue? There were
    headquarters issues with going with STAIF that Mary would need to be
    consulted on. Singleterry was to report out at the next meeting.

5)  ICE -- A group known as ICE, an international group associated with
    energy conversion, was interested in our participation in one of
    their meetings. There was talk of starting some sort of subcommittee
    within this group to interact with ICE. The thought was we should
    have some level of involvement with them. Singleterry and Larson
    were to get with Mary Braggs on this one. Until by-laws at finished,
    this issue was to be set aside.

6)  Space.com -- The talk moved to getting the word out bout this group.
    Randorf mentioned we could have a presence or article on Space.Com,
    a web site focused on space related topics. He was to discover what
    is would take to get posted.

7)  Articles -- There was talk of getting all the space-related
    materials on a web site. Randorf mentioned he knew the Redstone
    Scientific Information Center (RSIC) had de-classified some Nerva
    documents. He also offered to troll for sources at the Ballistic
    Missile Defense Organization and the to find space nuclear
    information.

8)  Visitors Center -- There was talk about a visitors center dosplay on
    space nuclear power. The display was or is to be at New Mexico.
    Prichard was to contact Ron Lipinski about this topic.

9)  Term Limits -- There was talk of term limits. We talk about having
    multiple terms lengths.

The meeting ended with Larson reviewing all the items discussed with
seven action items.

-   Larson and Singleterry would get with HQIT

-   Larson and Alenka would get together

-   Singleterry to report an the STAIF issue

-   Larson and Singleterry would talk with Mary Braggs on the ICE topic

-   Randorf would explore the space.com route for public awareness

-   Randorf would search for nuclear topic at RSIC and BMDO

-   Prichard would talk with Lipinski about the display