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Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Oklo now trading on NYSE
After completing its business combination with AltC Acquisition Corp, Oklo Inc. began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol OKLO this past Friday, May 10.
The company is aiming to provide clean, reliable, affordable nuclear energy to customers across the artificial intelligence, data center, energy, defense, and industrial markets. Sam Altman, chairman of Oklo since 2015 and former chief executive of AltC, called the first day on the NYSE a milestone for the entire team.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Jian Gan (INL)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Alternate Chair:
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High-Resolution TEM Characterization of Neutron-Irradiated U-10Mo Fuel in the Low Temperature and Low Burnup Regime
10:00–10:20AM CST
Sukanya Majumder (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (Purdue), T.K. Yao (INL), Kaustubh K. Bawane (INL), Cameron Howard (INL), Kourtney D. Wright (INL), Laura Hawkins (INL), Brandon D. Miller (INL), Jonova Thomas (Purdue), Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), Maria A. Okuniewski (Purdue)
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Lower Length Scale Fuel Performance Modeling of U-Mo Fuel
10:20–10:40AM CST
Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), ATM Jahid Hasan (NCSU), Shenyang Hu (PNNL), Sourabh Kadambi (INL), Linu Malakkal (INL), Zhi-Gang Mei (ANL), Maria Okuniewski (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (ANL), Shipeng Shu (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Accelerated Fuel Qualification Using in situ Neutron Diffraction
10:40–11:00AM CST
E.G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales), J.H. Stansby (Univ. New South Wales), V.K. Peterson (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), D. Adorno Lopes (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), P.A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales), J. Bevitt (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), A. Paradowska (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), E.S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), J.T. White (LANL), P. Olsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Advancing Thermo-Physical Property Characterization Techniques and Methods for Irradiated Nuclear Fuels
11:00–11:20AM CST
T. R. Pavlov (INL)
Fission Accelerated Steady-State Testing Irradiations and Post Irradiation Examination
11:20–11:40AM CST
S. Patnaik (INL), G.L. Beausoleil (INL), L. Capriotti (INL)
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