Early in my year as ANS vice president/president-elect, I was determined to try to find a project that the entire ANS community could rally behind and could be completed during my year as ANS president. I was looking for something that would provide community-identified focus areas for future activities and that would mobilize, energize, and inspire ANS members during that year and in the years ahead. The idea for the Nuclear Grand Challenges (NGCs) project originated from a National Academy of Engineering presentation, "Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century," that I observed in the spring of 2016. While two of the NAE's 14 Grand Challenges involved nuclear technologies (namely, "Provide energy from fusion" and "Prevent nuclear terror"), it seemed to me that the nuclear community could come up with a set of more focused Grand Challenges that could make nuclear energy and its associated technologies more attractive in the coming years.
展开▼
