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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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India’s PFBR attains criticality at last
Prime Minister Narendra Modi proclaimed it “a proud moment for India” when on April 6 the 500-MWe, sodium-cooled Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) achieved initial criticality. This milestone, which comes some 22 years after the continually delayed PFBR project began, marks India’s entrance into the second stage of its three-stage nuclear program, which has the ultimate goal of supporting the country’s nuclear power program with its significant thorium reserves.
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
