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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Aalo Atomics discusses the road ahead
Arafat
Yasir Arafat, president and chief technology officer of Aalo Atomics, participated in the first day of sessions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC). There, he recapped some of the company’s recent milestones and revealed new details on what lies ahead for Aalo.
His attendance at the event coincided with a number of announcements in the past two weeks. Those announcements covered new contracts with Global Nuclear Fuel and Baker Hughes, the release of a new strategic roadmap, the completion of fuel enrichment by Urenco USA, and a new approval from the Department of Energy.
19th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2025)
Technical Session|Sponsored by NISD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|10:00–11:45AM CDT|Northwestern/Ohio State
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Humberstone
Alternate Chair:
Rawan Mustafa
Session Organizer:
David Grabaskas
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MELCOR Model Development for BlueCRAB and FATE Microreactor Code Comparisons
10:00–10:20AM CDT
Manit D. Shah (ORNL), Alex J. Huning (ORNL)
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Progress on Advancement in Modeling and Testing of the Simplified Radionuclide Transport (SRT) Source Term Analysis Code
10:20–10:40AM CDT
Tyler Starkus (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL), Dong H. Kam (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL)
Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of a Generation IV Pebble Bed Reactor Using MELCOR 2.2
10:40–11:00AM CDT
Matthew D. Eklund (INL), Bob Wolfgang (X-energy), Brian Mays (X-energy), Paolo Balestra (INL), Lise Charlot (INL), Julia Sharma (X-energy), Kyle G. Metzroth (X-energy), Diego Mandelli (INL)
FATE Model for General Facility Safety and Source Terms
11:00–11:20AM CDT
Kayla Watanabe (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Christian Renk (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Jose P. Gutierrez (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Nicholas Ray (Fauske and Associates LLC.), James Scobel (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Sung Jin Lee (Fauske & Associates, LLC), Matthew Kennedy (Fauske and Associates LLC.), Martin G. Plys (Fauske & Associates, LLC)
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