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LANL’s ZiaCore microreactor reaches criticality
Last week, Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that its ZiaCore microreactor was brought to zero-power criticality at high temperatures in April through May of this year during four weeks of experiments on the Deimos testbed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC).
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by RPD
Monday, June 16, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
John H. Jackson
Alternate Chair:
Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
Session Organizer:
The MARVEL reactor is trailblazing a path towards advanced reactor demonstration. As a Department of Energy sponsored effort, the project is keen to share lessons learned with the wider community to enable rapid follow-on developments in the commercial sector. To this end, this panel will offer broad perspectives on key insights gained during its rapid development cycle. Panelists will cover lessons learned relating to project management, cost/schedule, fabrication of critical components, and prototype testing.
INL
Josh Marteny
Creative Engineers, Inc.
Carlo Parisi
Raymond Clark