Join us in Indianapolis for the American Nuclear Society (ANS) annual conference. The theme for the meeting is “Failure is not an Option.”
Executive session “Merits and Viability of Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles: A Discussion with the National Academies” will be chaired by Dr. John Mattingly, Professor and University Faculty Scholar at NC State’s Nuclear Engineering. The session will discuss the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report – its main points and the ANS response. Panelists will include Paul Dickman (Argonne National Lab), John Kessler (J. Kessler and Associates), Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton), Edwin Lyman (Union of Concerned Scientists), Steve Nesbit (LMNT Consulting) and Craig Hansen (Cadence, Inc). This session will take place on Monday, June 12 at 1 pm ET.
Dr. Mattingly leads the RADIANS research team, which involves graduate and undergraduate students and post-doctoral scholars. Their projects apply modeling and simulation to analyze nuclear radiation measurements for nuclear security applications, including arms control, safeguards, nonproliferation, counterterrorism, emergency response, and forensics. Mattingly was also the chief scientist for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development $25 million funded Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities (CNEC). Seven partner universities and four national laboratories were tasked to develop the next generation of leaders with practical experience in technical fields relevant to nuclear nonproliferation.
Before joining NC State, John worked for 15 years at two national laboratories, Oak Ridge, and Sandia. He conducted experiments with Category I (weapons-usable) special nuclear material (SNM), nuclear weapons components, and fully-assembled nuclear weapons at nearly all of the facilities in the US Nuclear Weapons Complex, and at international facilities including UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) facilities in Aldermaston and Burghfield, UK, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique (CEA) Valduc facility, and the Russian Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) facility in Sarov, Russia.