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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020|2:30–3:30PM EDT
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Session Organizers:
Mr. Peter H. Brenton (MIT Dept of Nuclear Science and Engineering)
Koroush Shirvan (MIT)
Ben Forget (MIT)
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Koroush Shirvan
MIT
Ben Forget
Jacopo Buongiorno
TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Director of Science
Mingda Li
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