Meetings

October 9, 2025 | "Virgil Summer: From $9 Billion Loss to America's Next Nuclear Success - With Mindsight Over Hindsight"

Summary: A discussion of the factors involved in the original project failure, an update of the current state of efforts and required actions to restore it to a national success story and template for the future...

September 25, 2025 | "Hot Labs, Cold War, and South Carolina's Best Kept Secret: Preserving the SRS Legacy"

Summary: Susie Ferrara is the Cold War Historic Preservation Program Manager for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC at the Savannah River Site (SRS). She has the responsibility for the preservation, Management, and treatment of National Register of Historic Places-eligible historic properties, equipment, archival records, and documents within the SRS Cold War Heritage tourism and outreach...

June 20, 2025 | Play Ball with ANS SR and Augusta GreenJackets

by James Deaton | May 30, 2025

The ANS Savannah River group will have exclusive access to the Lawn Ace Lounge. The Lawn Ace Lounge offers the perfect view of SRP Park and is where ANS SR had its nights in 2022, 2023, and 2024. The open-air suite is located on the SRP Park main concourse...

June 12, 2025 | ANS-SR Technical Meeting

by James Deaton | May 29, 2025

During the 1970s, the Savannah River Site (SRS) H-Canyon operated an electrolytic dissolver to dissolve stainless steel and zirconium research reactor fuel. In 2016, SRS received stainless steel clad Fast Critical Assembly plutonium fuel from Japan...

May 2025 | ITER Fusion Fuel Cycle Exhaust Development Process | Robert Allgood

by James Deaton | Apr 24, 2025

ITER Fusion Fuel Cycle Exhaust Development Process Speaker: Robert Allgood Manager of US ITER’s Tokamak Exhaust Processing System, Savannah River National Laboratory You are invited to the May 2025 Technical Presentation & Dinner. Details are as...

May 2025 | Annual PicNuke

by James Deaton | Apr 3, 2025

Tell your friends, tell your colleagues, and bring the whole family! We will provide the hot dogs, burgers, buns, water, ice tea and soft drinks; BUT bring a side dish or dessert to share. Lawn games and chairs are encouraged. Come network and celebrate with...

March 2025 | Plant Vogtle Tour

by James Deaton | Mar 5, 2025

Come see first-hand the nation’s top clean energy producer (Plant Vogtle surpassed the Palo Verde Plant in Arizona in 2024 with the startup of Unit 4). We will start and end at the Vogtle Energy Education Center and drive out to areas on the site where tour...

February 2025 | Lisa M. Marshall, President, American Nuclear Society

by James Deaton | Jan 15, 2025

Speaker: Lisa M. Marshall, President, American Nuclear SocietyExtension Assistant Professor | Director of Outreach, Retention & Engagement, North Carolina State University Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Venue: Electric Eats Bar & Grille, 140 Laurens...

January 2025 | Nuclear Fuel: Meeting the Challenge | Susan Hoxie-Key, Member, Board of Directors, enCore Energy Corporation

by James Deaton | Jan 1, 2025

Speaker: Susan Hoxie-Key, Member, Board of Directors, enCore Energy Corporation Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Venue: Newberry Hall, 117 Newberry Street SW, Aiken, SC 29801; Phone: 803.641.7087 Time: 6:00 PM Social/6:40 PM Buffet Dinner/7:15 PM...

December 2024 | Holiday Celebration

by James Deaton | Dec 15, 2024
Venue: The Larder, Hammond’s Ferry, North Augusta, SC (89 Crystal Lake Dr, North Augusta, SC 29841 – Phone: (803) 599-5149 Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM Heavy hors d’oeuvres platters featuring mouth-watering fare from the LarderFried...


November 2024 | Second Annual ANS-SR Nuclear Trivia Night

by James Deaton | Nov 1, 2024

The Second Annual ANS-SR Nuclear Trivia Night this upcoming Thursday, November 7th! The event takes place at Café Scientifique (203 Laurens St SW, Aiken, SC). Doors/dinner begin at 6:00 PM, with the trivia beginning around 6:30 and lasting 60-90 minutes. The cost is...


June 2024 | ANS SR Night at SRP Park

by James Deaton | May 1, 2024

Date & Time: Friday, June 7, 2024, 7:05 PM Game vs. Myrtle Beach Pelicans Location: SRP Park, Railroad Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina. The ANS Savannah River group will have exclusive access to the Lawn Ace Lounge. The Lawn Ace Lounge offers the...


April 2024 | 4th Annual PicNuke - ANS-SR Networking BBQ

by James Deaton | Apr 11, 2024

Tell your friends, tell your colleagues, and bring the whole family! We will provide the hot dogs, burgers, buns, water, ice tea and soft drinks; BUT bring a side dish or dessert to share. Lawn games and chairs are encouraged. Come network and celebrate with...


January 2024 | Dinner Meeting Features Catherine Ramsey, SRNL

by James Deaton | Jan 12, 2024

an important aspect of nuclear and radioactive material management at DOE facilities is accountability. This point and related subject areas were discussed by Cathy Ramsey, Senior Engineer at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Nuclear Materials Management...


November 2023 | ANS SR Turns 60 This Month!

by James Deaton | Nov 7, 2023

ANS SR Turns 60 this month! We received our charter as a local section of ANS dated November 21, 1963. Speaker: ANS President Kenneth S. Petersen On Wednesday, November 29, 2023 the local section of ANS gathered at Newberry Hall to hear Kenneth Peterson discuss the...

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