American Nuclear Society

Aerospace Nuclear Science and Technology Technical Group

Meeting Minutes

9 June 2002 @ Westin Diplomat Hotel

Attendees

T.K. Larson INEEL 208-526-5775 <tkl@inel.gov>

George Miley U of IL 217-333-3772 <g-miley@uiuc.edu>

Andrew W Prichard PNNL 509-372-4137 <Andrew.Prichard@pul.gov>

Ham Hunter RSSIC-ORNL 865-574-6297 <hunterht@ornl.gov>

Don Williamson Jr. U of Wisc. Mad. 608-265-4573 <williamson@wisc.edu>

Shannon Bragg-Sitton U of Mich. 256-544-6272
<shannon.bragg-sitton@msfc.nasa.gov>

Shawn W Bennett Texas A&M 979-575-6026 <swayne@cedar.tame.edu>

Robert Singleterry NASA Langley 757-864-1437
<r.c.singleterry@larc.nasa.gov>

Andy Klein OSU 541-737-2343 <kleina@engr.orst.edu>

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

Jeffrey Randorf MDA 703-697-6477 <Jeffrey.Randorf@mda.osd.mil>

Item 1 - Meeting started at 10:04 AM. The attendees went around the
table giving introductions.

Item 2 -- Tom Larson stating we had visitors and that, to meet their
schedule, we should listen to then first. The visitors were from the U.
Berkley Student Chapter of ANS. They informed us that the conference,
"Living in a Nuclear Free Zone" is schedule for 2 April through 5 April
2003. The representatives, Lance Kim and Darby Kimball, asked for our
support.

We then skipped to item 11 on the agenda, Old Business.

-   Albuquerque Museum essentially closed -- We will table until Robert
    gets to Albuquerque. Robert will check out if they have a web site
    on this topic.

-   ANS Web Site -- Discussion ensued concerning the content of the
    site, [www.anst.ans.org](http://www.anst.ans.org/), should be a
    technical site. The ANS site should be used to have the meeting
    "stuff". **Action** - Ham will get with the ANS web master (Joe
    "Koblich"). Furthermore, the ANS Public Information website has only
    RTG stuff. We in ANST need to update this. **Action** - AI Ham, and
    Robert, Jeff, will work together to solve.

-   Eric and Dawn Sustainable Development, Student Conference -- Ham was
    asked to help with their brochure material, since he has knowledge
    of web links, etc. The Executive Committee did not believe ANST had
    a prominent role in this activity.

The committee began several topics of discussions not declared
explicitly on the agenda.

First, George Miley -- attended Professional Development session. From
that attendance, he realized ANST needs a public policy statement.
Discuss then moved on to having a point-of-contact for questions
concerning nuclear power applications in space, such as for RTG on deep
space probes. **Action** - Ham volunteered to interact with public
policy. We should have a rapid response contact in our technical group.

Second, Robert stated as a reminder that Harley Thronson, Director of
Technology in NASA Office of Space Science, was speaking from 6-8 PM on
Tuesday. NASA is proposing in their upcoming budget to spent one billion
over 5 years for nuclear technology applications in space. We should all
attend in support of him presentation.

Finally, George suggested a change in ANST meeting times at ANS
conferences. **Action** - Robert and Tom will consider a new meeting
time. Furthermore, the committee discussed the potential for electronic
meetings as well. We then returned to the published agenda sequence.

Item 3 - Minutes from last meeting were approved with proviso that
needed corrections that are identified will be rolled in. The committee
moved on to item 5 while Jeff opened the old minutes file for the Nov
2001 action items.

Item 5- By-laws -- Tom stated he is working this issue.

Item 4 -- Jeff went through the action items. All are either closed, no
longer applicable, or discussed below.

Item 6 - National Program Committee -- Lots of venting on this topic.
There is a lot of work to do. Some of the things discussed, such as...
Do we need two ANST Executive Committee meetings per year? We need to
organize an embedded topical if ANST wanted to become more established
within ANS. ANST needs a space topic for the next annual meeting. When?
The next window is the Winter Meeting of ANS scheduled for the summer of
2003 in San Diego. What can we have sorted out by the winter meeting in
DC? De-confliction with is sorely needed with STAIF. Do not want to have
something in competition with that event. Can we get JPL involved with
us? How? The group thought ANST should do like Fusion group - have a
couple of sessions of good sessions.

Item 7 -- National/ international Topics Meetings First sub-bullet,
International Conference on Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP) --
over 200 papers presented. We got 15 papers out of the 16 expected in
the two sessions. The breakout was 4 and 3 respectively. Thanks to
George for his help on this.

Second sub-bullet - the topical meetings. Tom voiced out loud that we
are really on a waiting to see want NASA will do. It takes time to put
these topics together. **Action** get with Mohamed El-Genk of U of NM on
embedding an ANS activity within STAIF.

Items 8 and 9 - Membership -- ANST needs to hit the people on Robert's
list. We need to generate a brochure with our \$143. **Action** --
Shannon and Andrew get together to discuss ideas for membership. We also
discussed a possible joint topical with the Materials division. Get with
Alan Walter.

Item 10 -- Tom said the report to the Board of Directors of ANS went
well.

Item 12 - New ANST officers were installed. Meeting adjourned just after
1200.