ANS-Nevada

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OFFICERS

CHAIR: Charlotta E. Sanders <Charlotta_Sanders@Notes.ymp.gov>
Senior Nuclear Engineer, Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC, Las Vegas, NV. MS, 1995, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1995; PhD, Nuclear Physics, Royal Institute of Technology. Current responsibilities: performing criticality safety analyses and shielding design for the proposed Yucca Mountain repository. Published over 30 articles/publications. Licensed Professional Engineer in Nuclear Engineering (Nevada).

ANS: Member since 1994. Currently, member of the Executive Committee of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division; Executive Committee member of the Professional Women in ANS (1999 - present) and the ANS 19.1 Standards Committee (1999 - present); Nevada Local Section member.

Member of Women In Nuclear (WIN), and currently serving on the Executive Board of the Las Vegas Valley WIN Chapter.

VICE-CHAIR: Anthony E. Hechanova <hechanova@unlv.nevada.edu>
Research Scientist, Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. B.S. (1986); M.S. (1988), Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis; M.S. (1990); Ph.D. (1995), Nuclear Engineering, MIT. Current responsibilities: Director, HRC Nuclear Science and Technology Division, Director of the UNLV Transmutation Research Program, and Program Manager of the UNLV Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative.

ANS Member since 1986. Currently, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect of the Accelerator Applications Division; Executive Committee member of the Nevada Section. Helped to establish the UNLV Student Section.

Member ASME and HPS.

TREASURER : David Stahl <David_Stahl@notes.ymp.gov>
Dr. Stahl has been active in the ANS for over 25 years and has been named a “Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.” He ihas been active in the Nevada Section for more than 10 years. He has served in many positions including a member of the Board, Treasurer, and Past Chair. He has also been active in developing and running very successful FOCUS Topical Meetings for the Nevada Section. He is currently Treasurer and Acting Chair of the Nevada Section. He is delighted to continue in the role of Treasurer, and he will continue to build and protect the financial health of the Nevada Section.

SECRETARY : Sandra Gogol <>

AT-LARGE MEMBERS of EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (Two):

Steve Curtis <sszjcurtis@att.net>
Steve has been a member of the Environmental Protection Agency radiological program for four years. Steve has been a national response radiological counterterrorism field deployment team leader on the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) and the radiological Consequence Management teams for 15 years. He was instrumental in program management for the DOE modernization effort post 9/11. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering and a Masters degree in Health Physics, both from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Currently, Steve is president of Alphatech, Inc. He is a member of the National Security Technologies, LLC transition management team during their preparations to assume duties for the NTS operations on July 1, 2001.

Stephen Mitchell <>

Roland Parsons <>

Dayton Wittke <>

EX-OFFICIO: Denis E. Beller <beller@egr.unlv.edu>
Ph.D. (fusion and fission reactor physics) from Purdue Univ. (1986); M.S.N.E from Air Force Inst. of Tech. (1981); B.S.Ch.E. from Univ. of Colorado (1976).

Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Coordinator for the new M.S. degree program in Materials and Nuclear Engineering, and Nuclear Engineering Group Leader, Nuclear Science and Technology Division of the Harry Reed Center for Environmental Studies.

Visiting Research Professor, Idaho Accelerator, Physics Department, Idaho State University. Director, national Reactor-Accelerator Coupling Experiments Project (DOE Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative).

A member of the ANS since 1986. Served as a member and Chair of the Public Information Committee, as a member and Chair of the Trinity (N.M.) Section of the ANS. Currently, 2nd Vice President of the Eagle Alliance and Director of Eagle Alliance Action Center of Nevada. An outspoken member of the society that presented ANS testimony during Yucca Mountain hearings and created and conducted the ANS IndyCar Outreach Program. Other public communications effort include co-author of seminal essay in Foreign Affairs, several opinion-editorials in Nevada and elsewhere, radio call-in programs, PBS debates, a dinner-debate for the press in actor Paul Newman’s home that Denis organized and participated in, and several contributions and citations in Sen. Domenici’s new book on nuclear energy. Denis initiated, helped fund, and organize the Senator’s speech and book signing at the Atomic Testing Museum in December 2004.

We also have a number of Subcommittees:

Program Committee: Tanya Sloma, Chair <>

Membership Subcommittee:

Public Information Subcommittee:

Honors and Awards Subcommittee: Anthony Hechanova, Chair hechanova@unlv.nevada.edu

PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS

Paper Review Criteria and Scoring

Questions Contact: Anthony Hechanova