Theme: "Nuclear Progress!"
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Riviera Hotel
Date: November 7-11, 2010

Click on the ANS Winter Meeting & Technology Expo website and then Preliminary Program under Documents to get the full details of this meeting and exposition (downloadable .pdf file).

Of particular interest to Savannh afficionados is the following technical panel session organized by Jon Stuky, Chairman, N/S Savannah Association, Inc.

Title: Viability and Challenges Associated with Developing Nuclear Powered Commercial Vessels
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 8
Date/Time Nov 9th at 8:30 a.m.

This session is cosponsored (with full responsibility by ANS) by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) M-48 (Nuclear Propulsion) Technical Group.

This session will be an update session on the current and emerging activities and issues associated with the establishment of one or more government or private operators of nuclear power plants in the range of interest for propulsion of a variety of special services requiring high horsepower for speed, ice breaking service, rapid-transit containership, or other services considerations.

Since the U.S. entry as an operator (N.S. Savannah, which operated for 10 years), shipboard nuclear service of a commercial nature has stagnated in the U.S. but has continued as a practice in the Arctic in Russia. Increasingly stringent external factors, including fuel and O and M cost, a need for more speed and larger ship size, concerns for harbor (and perhaps icepack) pollution due to burning diesel fuel, and the attendant price of special fuels have worked together to surface the concept of a fleet of nuclear-powered commercial ships for more thorough analysis.

This session will attempt to define and consolidate the issues associated with current-day development of commercial nuclear power at sea primarily from a U.S. perspective.

Panelists:
• R. Jon Stouky (Consultant)
• Stanley D. Wheatley (California State Univ)
• Jose Femenia (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy)
• George A. Sawyer (Sawyer-Weems, LLC)
• Erhard W. Koehler (USDOT Maritime Administration)
• David Johnson (American Bureau of Shipping)