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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Valar achieves cold criticality at LANL
Valar Atomics has announced that its Nova Core achieved zero-power criticality on November 17 at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) at the Nevada National Security Site.
Technical Session|Sponsored by OPD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|San Simeon A
Session Chair:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Crook (MCR Performance Solutions)
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Microreactor Deployment for Rapid Power Supply in Emergency/Natural Disaster Situations
Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical), Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical)
Paper
Assessment of Moving Packed Bed Heat Exchangers to Dispatch Process Heat from Micro-Reactors
Zayed Ahmed (Kansas State), Hitesh Bindra (Kansas State)
Presented by T-Ying Lin (Kansas State)
Scaling Siting Criteria and Alternative Licensing Pathways for Micro-Reactors
Edward J. Garcia (MIT), Lucy Nester (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Opportunities for Advanced Mobile Reactors in Times of Disaster and War
Aaron Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
Locational Variance in Nuclear Micro-Reactor Performance Under Microgrid Conditions
Ryan Dailey (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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