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Oklo’s Isotope Test Reactor achieves criticality
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor became the fifth Department of Energy–authorized reactor to achieve criticality under the agency’s authorization process, it was announced earlier today.
Criticality was reached at 9:19 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday at the company’s Groves facility in Lockhart, Texas, according to the DOE.
Technical Session|Sponsored by IRD|Cosponsored by THD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Lincolnshire 1/2
Session Chair:
Walid Mohamed (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Kyle Anderson (ANL)
Track Organizer:
Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
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Progress Toward the Low Enrichment Uranium Fuel Conversion of the MIT Research Reactor
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), V. Mascolino (ANL), S. Yang (ANL), K. Anderson (ANL), A. S. Hebden (ANL), E. Wilson (ANL)
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Flow Testing for Hydraulic Performance Evaluation of USHPRR LEU Conversion
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Guanyi Wang (ANL), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Aaron Weiss (Oregon State), Alexander Westerberg (Oregon State), Andrew Hebden (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Wade Marcum (Oregon State), Erik Wilson (ANL)
Estimating Heat Generation and Energy Deposition in Low-Enriched Uranium Foil Targets
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Kyoung Lee (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Nolan Goth (ORNL), Jim Nash (ORNL)
Preliminary Comparison of Depletion Solver Methods for MITR-II Fuel Management Codes
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Emilio Ahuactzin-Garcia (MIT), Kyle E. Anderson (ANL), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Lin-Wen Hu (MIT), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)
A Progress Update on the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) LEU Conversion to a Monolithic Alloy of U 10Mo under NNSA's USHPRR Project
2:20–2:40PM CDT
Maria Pinilla (Univ. Missouri Research Reactor), Valerio Mascolino (ANL), Austin J. Schnieders (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Caleb Braun (Univ. Missouri Research Reactor), Cezary Bojanowski (ANL), Firat Cetinbas (ANL), Guanyi Wang (ANL), Dhongik S. Yoon (ANL), David Jaluvka (ANL), Earl Feldman (ANL), John A. Stillman (ANL), Andrew Hebden (ANL), Walid Mohamed (ANL), Erik H. Wilson (ANL)