Nuclear Power and NPSS Richard Kouzes AdCom Retreat & Meeting March 2010

Outline Nuclear Power Fields of Interest Nuclear Power Topics Conference Co-Sponsorship Partner Societies New Technical Committee? Leadership for Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power nuclear power reactors in U.S., ~20% of U.S. electricity (10% in Washington state) 438 nuclear power reactors in world, 45 under construction, in France ~85% of electricity 372 GW electric power produced in 2008 Each power plant is ~1 GW electric

4 Nuclear Power Without 80 Year Extensions Dennis Spurgeon (February 2008) In total, 15 Trillion Kilowatt Hours and 12 Billion Metric tons of avoided CO2 emissions would be lost without license extensions. That total electricity output could provide power to over 70 million households for 20 years.

VNRC Workshop August 21-22, 2006 Technology Demonstration Program

Current NPSS Technical Activities That Apply to Nuclear Power Computer Applications Fusion Technology Plasma Science and Applications Radiation Effects Radiation Instrumentation Particle Accelerator Science and Technology.

Current NPSS Fields of Interest That Apply to Nuclear Power instrumentation for research; detection and measurement of radiation; radiation monitoring and safety equipment; magnetofluid dynamics and thermionics; plasma dynamics; controlled thermonuclear fusion; electron, ion, and plasma sources; laser-plasma interactions; diagnostics; nuclear instrumentation development for reactor systems; effects of radiation on materials, components, and systems; applications of radiation and nuclear energy to other than utility power generation.

Proposed Nuclear Power Fields of Interest What should we be doing in Nuclear Power? Revise our FOI? –Instrumentation & control for nuclear power systems (CANPS) –Detector technology for nuclear power (RITC) –Non-proliferation measurement systems (RITC) –Modeling and simulation for nuclear energy (RITC) –Next generation nuclear power systems (FTC and RITC) –Fusion in the energy context (FTC) –ITER (FTC) –Strategic Planning for a broader U.S. fusion program (FTC) –Predictive simulation of fusion plasmas (PSAC) –Accelerator based waste transmutation, heavy ion fusion, neutral beam injection, materials testing.

Conference Co-Sponsorship NPIC & HMIT 2009 – US (cosponsored) ANIMMA 2009 – France (cosponsored) INREC 2010 – Jordan (not cosponsored) NEET 2010 – China (not cosponsored) NPIC & HMIT 2010 – US (cosponsored) ANIMMA 2011 – Belgium (cosponsored?)

Partnering With Other Societies NPSS and PES show up under Nuclear Power on IEEE Technical Navigator Power & Energy Society (PES) –24,000 individuals engaged in the electric power energy industry –leading provider of scientific information on electric power and energy –Meetings in China, New Orleans, Minneapolis What relationship would be productive? Proposed: Joint support for conferences where there is an overlap.

New Technical Committee Nuclear Power TC for NPSS? Leadership? Membership? Role in NPSS? Conference? Expand current conferences to include nuclear power sessions. Better Name: Nuclear Power or Energy or Applications…?

Leadership for Nuclear Power Possible Sources of Leadership ANIMMA, INREC, NEET, other Committee Richard Kouzes, chairPNNL Leonard J Bond PNNL Ewe Bratzler Peter Clout Vista Controls Lorenzo FabrisOrlando 2009 NSS Chair Christoph Ilgner Dortmund Andy Kadak MIT Gordon Kohse MIT Richard LanzaMIT Patrick Ledu Saclay Jane LehrSNL (NPSS past chair) Jean-Pierre MartinU Montreal John MeredithAgelent (retired) Hutch Neilson PPPL M TillackUCSD Mike Unterweger NIST Craig WoodyBNL (NPSS chair)