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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The progress so far: An update on the Reactor Pilot Program
It has been about three months since the Department of Energy named 10 companies for its new Reactor Pilot Program, which maps out how the DOE would meet the goal announced by executive order in May of having three reactors achieve criticality by July 4, 2026.
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3:15–5:00PM PDT
Panel|Palos Verdes A/B
Session Chair: Dillon R. Shaver|Alternate Chair: Lander Ibarra
Redondo
Session Organizer: W. David Pointer
Manhattan
Session Chair: Lane B. Carasik|Alternate Chair: Vivek Rao
10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
Session Chair: Igor A. Bolotnov|Alternate Chair: Arsen Iskhakov
Palos Verdes A/B
Session Chair: Emilian Popov|Alternate Chairs: Emilian Popov, Robert Martin
Session Chair: Nadish Saini|Alternate Chair: Yue Jin
1:00–2:45PM PDT
Session Chair: Ralph Wiser|Alternate Chair: Dillon R. Shaver
Session Chair: Piyush Sabharwall|Alternate Chair: W. David Pointer
Session Chair: Subash Sharma|Alternate Chair: Trevor Howard
Session Chair: Elia Merzari|Alternate Chair: Yassin A. Hassan
Session Chair: Lander Ibarra|Alternate Chair: Milos Atz
Session Chair: Xu Wu|Alternate Chair: Jun Fang
Session Chair: Subash L. Sharma|Alternate Chair: Nithin Panicker
San Simeon B
Session Chair: Bao-Wen Yang|Alternate Chair: Jun Liao
Session Chair: Minghui Chen|Alternate Chair: Qiuping Lv
Session Chair: SuJong Yoon|Alternate Chair: Vittorio Badalassi
Session Chair: Juliana P. Duarte|Alternate Chair: Kyung Mo Kim
Session Chair: Nolan Goth|Alternate Chair: Sheng Zhang
Session Chair: SuJong Yoon|Alternate Chair: Wei Ding
Session Chair: Guanyi Wang
Session Chair: Nolan Goth|Alternate Chair: Franklin Curtis
Session Chair: Trevor Kent Howard|Alternate Chair: Robert K. Salko
Panel|San Simeon B
Session Chair: Xingang Zhao|Alternate Chair: Yang Liu
