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ANS Local Sections Committee Business & Workshop Meeting Sunday, June 15 th , 2014 Reno, Nevada ANS LSC at Reno, Nevada, June 2014 LSC June 2013 8:00-8:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks Safety Message Introductions Around the

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ANS Local Sections Committee

Business & Workshop Meeting Sunday, June 15th, 2014 Reno, Nevada

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LSC June 2013 8:00-8:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

  • Safety Message
  • Introductions Around the Room (Section Chairs, LS

Committee, HQ, Guests)

  • What we plan to cover today
  • A View from the LS Chair

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Local Section Committee 8:15-8:35

Term ends June of: Local Section Member 2015 Tinh Tran, Chair 2015 Shikha Prasad, Vice Chair 2016 Sama Bilbao y Leon 2016 Heather J.M. Chichester 2015 Mark Reed 2017 Luc G.G. Van Den Durpel 2015 Christopher R. Britton 2016 Michael J. Hope 2015 Edward “Ted” L. Quinn 2016 Natalie Zaczek

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What we plan to cover today

  • Hello
  • Business Meeting
  • Active & Revitalization Sections
  • Snapshots
  • Presentations
  • News from HQ
  • Info share from today’s meeting with ANS

President

  • Around the Nation

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A View from the Local Section Chair

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View

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Our Positives Our AFI’s Snapshot conf. calls at 6-weeks Streamlined Admin. Process (e.g. Annual Report) Snapshot LS e-Newsletter Complete the move to SBR Streamlined Website and updates to Ashley Tax Exemption 501(c)3 Timely responding to LS Inquires Incorporation Revitalizing Develop LS Ops Manual Dissolved dormant Sections Communications (e.g. LL, Speakers)

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Business Meeting 8:10-8:45

1. Verify Quorum 2. Old Business

  • a. Transition to SBR
  • 3. New Business
  • a. Progress of Ohio Section merging with Michigan

Section.

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Business Meeting 8:10-8:45

Transition to Standard Bylaws & Rules

BRC Reviewing

1. Northern California 2. Louisiana 3. Carlsbad 4. Columbia Not Received 1. Colorado 2. Florida 3. Central Illinois 4. Piedmont Carolinas 5. Nevada

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Business Meeting 8:10-8:45

Ohio and Michigan Local Section has been approved by the LCS and will be going to the BOD on Thursday for approval. Michigan’s Plans for the Future

  • Webinars
  • Holding elections including Ohio Members

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Welcome to the Workshop 8:35-8:50

  • 1. Welcome Revitalizing Puget Sound (Seattle)
  • 2. Notes on our six week snapshot conf. calls

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Presentations 8:55-9:50

  • Harsh Desai
  • Remarks from Congressional Fellow
  • Ray Klan
  • Hosting Topical Meetings
  • Rizwan Uddin
  • University of Illinois NPRE
  • Roger Mayes
  • Idaho Section Activities
  • Eric Harvey
  • Northern California Update
  • Ashley Jiminian & Tracy Coyle
  • LS Archive and Outreach Materials

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Harsh Desai Congressional Fellow

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Topical Meetings

By Ray Klann

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ANS Fellow Rizwan Uddin University of Illinois

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Idaho Section Activities

By Roger Mayes ANS Idaho Section Chair

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Membership Information

  • Current Chair, Roger Mayes, Ph.D.
  • New Chair in July, Cathy Riddle, Ph.D.
  • Chartered in 1957 (first met at White Elephant Supper Club

in Idaho Falls)

  • 500+ members, including Lifetime members
  • ~150 on “active” email list
  • Many Idaho National Lab (INL) members and many in ANS

leadership roles

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IANS Characteristics

INL influence – members, leaders, speakers Strong balance sheet - Topical Meetings Dinner meetings, 30-100 attend

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Topical Meeting Sponsor

  • Mathematics and Computation 2013, May

in Sun Valley, Idaho

  • Global 2013, Sep-Oct, in Salt Lake City
  • PSA 2015, Probabilistic Safety

Assessment and Analysis, will be April 2015 in Sun Valley

  • Top Fuel 2016? Possibly Salt Lake City?

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Simpson speech well-attended

  • Congressman Mike Simpson, April 17, “A

strategy to move forward on nuclear energy and used fuel management”

  • About 100 attended

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Other recent speakers

  • NRC Commissioner William Magwood
  • Dr. Kevan Weaver of TerraPower on their plans

for the Traveling Wave Reactor

  • Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, University of Idaho (in Idaho

Falls) about his time in Japan after the Fukushima accident.

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Scout Merit Badge, October

  • During National Nuclear Science Week
  • 100 attended (~100 more inquired)
  • Positive feedback – will do again!
  • Irradiated burgers for dinner

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HS Essay Contest - SMRs

  • Jason Hale, Idaho Falls; Sienna White, Boise
  • Dr. Eric Loewen spoke on GE’s PRISM Reactor

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  • Misc. Activities/Support
  • Student sections at ISU and USU
  • Pandora’s Promise – Idaho Falls and Boise (for

Legislators and LINE Commission)

  • Smoke Detectors – 650 last year (>4000 total)
  • 42nd semi-annual highway cleanup
  • Opening reception for Nuclear and Emerging

Technologies for Space (NETS) 2014

  • Crowd-funded rad monitoring at Woods Hole
  • Modeling Experimentation Validation (MeV)

School, Idaho Falls, July 2014

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Advancements of the Northern California (NorCal) Local Section

By Eric Harvey ANS NorCal Section Chair

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  • New Website

− Dinner Meeting RSVPs − Past Speaker Content

  • Updated Rules and Bylaws for 2014
  • Continuing Activities:

− Regular Dinner Meetings − Public Outreach − Scholarship

Presentation Outline

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  • Website is hosted on ANS servers

local.ans.org\norcal

  • Wordpress backed using Pagelines theme (Version 1.2.8)
  • Dinner Meeting RSVPs

− Fillable form with information database

  • Past Speaker Content

New Website

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  • Addressed ANS National reviewer’s comments (Reed Johnson)
  • Implemented the suggested two-column format
  • Gained NorCal Section approval of the 2014 Revision and

adopted by affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the Executive Committee

Updated Rules and Bylaws for 2014

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  • Regular Dinner Meetings - increased participation from local

universities, notably U.C. Berkeley. Reasons for results?

− Topics with direct ties to industry and timely/current topics − Heavily subsidized meals for students − Current U.C. ANS student chair provides “nudging” for meetings − Students represent almost 50% of chapter attendance

  • Public Outreach

− Sponsor Teacher Workshop for Science Educators http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/News/HTW

  • Scholarship

− $1000 scholarship for graduating high school seniors

Continuing Activities

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Local Section Merger Ohio and Michigan

Rebecca Steinman EC member, Past Chair

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Overview

Michigan Section

  • ~7 dinner meetings per year; plus some separate plant branch

activities

  • Numerous outreach activities
  • 2 local section funded scholarships
  • Already approved as a 501(c)(3) organization

Ohio Section

  • Unused funds ~$18k
  • Almost no activities in past 5 years
  • Looking to see their funding go to an appropriate use

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Overview, cont’d

Rich Denning approached Past Chair Rod Johnson about merger; discussion points included

  • Transfer of OH funds and their use; impact on IRS reporting
  • Membership (MI has a fee, OH did not)

Michigan Section agreed to

  • Add all Ohio members to Michigan email distribution list; all Ohio

members annual fee waived 1st year

  • Will attempt to have at least 1, if not more, meetings in Ohio each year
  • Made arrangements to start recording dinner presentations to be

shared with members unable to attend the meetings in person

  • Added an extra position to the EC for a former Ohio member; similar to

the positions for a student and plant-branch representatives

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Outstanding Activities

  • Formally notify existing Ohio members of the merger
  • Discuss possible renaming of Local Section (maybe Great Lakes Section)

and implications on 501(c)(3) status

  • Update Rules and Bylaws to include Ohio as part of the section territory

(Summer)

  • Roll out updated web site (July-initial; September-final)
  • Include former Ohio Section volunteer(s) on the summer EC election ballot

(July)

  • Include Ohio members in the fall membership drive (September)
  • Start posting monthly meetings to members only portion of web site (starting

in September or October)

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Outreach Materials

By Tracy Coyle Outreach Manager

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Templates Available to Local Sections

  • Agenda
  • Letterhead
  • Memo
  • Minutes
  • Report

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ANS President Meeting 11:00-11:10

  • Tinh Tran
  • Debrief from ANS President 8:00 am Meeting on June 15th

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Around the Nation- Highlights from Sections 11:10-11:50

  • Successful practices or Lessons Learned in the area of:

Membership Recruitment & Growth Outreach activity Meeting management Best meeting topic Best meeting speaker Fun things (e.g. Nuclear Trivia Night)

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Open to Feedback from Section Chairs 11:45-11:50

  • How are we doing for you?
  • How was this Workshop?

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Conclude 12:00

  • Adjourn from Reno

Next Meeting in Anaheim, California November 2014

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