American Nuclear Society Material Science and Technology Division

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American Nuclear SocietyMaterial Science and
Technology Division

• Presentation to the
• ANS Board of Directors
• Todd Allen
• University of Wisconsin
• June 8, 2005 San Diego

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MSTD Mission

• Promotion of the development of materials and
  materials technology for application to all
  aspects of the production of nuclear energy and
  related energy sources and to the direct
  applications of radiation to materials

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Executive Committee Structure

• Chair-Todd Allen
• Vice-Chair/Chair Elect-Ron Ballinger
• Secretary Treasurer-Robert Hanrahan
• BOD Liaison-Jim Tulenko
• Executive Committee-15 members (5 per year group,
  three year terms)

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Membership Trends
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Budget
2005 1650 total budget 900 spent to date on
student support
Schumar Scholarship endowment
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Strategic Plan

• Five year plan adopted in Nov 2004
• Tactical plan adopted in Nov 2004 and updated in
  Nov 2005
• Evaluate and revise standard schedule for
  recurring MSTD sponsored sessions
• Develop a new Research in Progress session to
  improve the debate on current hot topics
• Increase MSTD student membership
• Increase MSTD young member (lt35 years old)
  participants on Executive Board
• Update Division Web site, Obtain feedback on
  continuous newsletter project
• Make significant progress toward fully endowed
  Schumar Scholarship

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Succession Planning
New Board Members Arthur Motta-PSU John
Fish-KAPL Scott Simonson-KAPL Rory
Kennedy-INL Ken Geelhood-PNNL
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Communications

• MSTD transitioned to an on-line newsletter
• Members continually add content
• Entire membership periodically reminded
• First issue June 2004. Updated in Aug 2004 and
  after November 2004 meeting.
• Semiannual list of relevant technical meetings

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ANS Position Statements

• None

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Participation with other Societies

• Participation with Other Professional Societies
• Co-sponsor Environmental Degradation Meeting with
  NACE and TMS
• LWR Fuel Performance Conference jointly sponsored
  by ANS, ENS, and AESJ
• Many MSTD members are also members of TMS and
  ASTM. ANS competes with meetings from these
  societies.

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Society Leadership

• MSTD members hold the following positions
• ANS President
• Incoming NPC Vice-Chair

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Non-meeting Publications

• MSTD members publish in
• Journal of Nuclear Materials
• Nuclear Technology
• Nuclear Science and Engineering
• No special issues in 2004

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Professional Development

• MSTD has helped organize and has participated in
  the periodic Atomistic Modeling in Fuels
  workshops
• These workshops are being transitioned to a
  Topical Meeting (Nov 2006)

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Scholarships

• Schumar Scholarship
• Awarded Annually
• Brought Endowment to 40,000 in Nov 2004

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Peer Recognition/Awards

• MSTD Awards Banquet held in Nov 2004
• Outstanding Achievement Awards were presented to
• Arden Bement
• Everett Bloom
• Jack Carpenter
• Gary Was
• Special Achievement Award presented to Ron Klueh
  for his book with Don Harries on the properties
  of irradiated ferritic-martensitic steels.
• Significant Contribution Awards (outstanding
  papers presented at ANS meetings) were presented
  to
• Ji Hyun Kim
• Travis Knight
• Sean McDeavitt
• Literary Awards were presented to
• Todd Allen
• Jeremy Busby
• Bob Odette
• Brian Wirth
• Mishima Award-Steve Herring 2004

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National Meeting Participation

• National Meeting Participation
• Pittsburgh June 2004
• Fuels and Materials Performance
• Reactor Pressure Boundary Penetration Degradation
  (Panel)
• Washington, DC Nov 2004
• Advances in Materials Testing and Analysis
• Development Testing of Fuels for Advanced
  Reactors
• San Diego, June 2005-initiate standard rotation
• Materials for Supercritical Water-cooled Reactors
• Coolant Compatibility in Lead-alloy Cooled
  Systems
• Reno, Nov 2005
• Gas Reactor Fuels
• Fuel Modeling

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Topical Meetings

• Class I
• LWR Fuel Performance Sep 2004
• Class II
• Environmental Degradation-Aug 2005
• Class III
• ICAPP 04 Pittsburgh
• Materials/Corrosion Issues of Supercritical Water
  Reactors (Panel)
• Structural and Materials Modeling and Analysis
• Materials for Space Reactor Concepts
• Fuel Design and Irradiation Issues for Next
  Generation Plants
• Advanced Issues in Welding and Material
• Reno June 2006 Nuclear Fuels and Structural
  Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear
  Reactors
• Albuquerque 2006 Atomistic Modeling in Nuclear
  Fuel Systems

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Division Metrics
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Summary

• Strong focus on technical programming and
  establishing meetings/sessions that are routinely
  attended by the international community
• Standard programming
• New topical meetings
• Engaging young members on executive board
• Adequate performance for all Division Metrics and
  Measures