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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Aalo Atomics discusses the road ahead
Arafat
Yasir Arafat, president and chief technology officer of Aalo Atomics, participated in the first day of sessions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC). There, he recapped some of the company’s recent milestones and revealed new details on what lies ahead for Aalo.
His attendance at the event coincided with a number of announcements in the past two weeks. Those announcements covered new contracts with Global Nuclear Fuel and Baker Hughes, the release of a new strategic roadmap, the completion of fuel enrichment by Urenco USA, and a new approval from the Department of Energy.
Technical Session|Radioisotope Power Systems
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|10:00–11:40AM CDT|Salon EF (Marriott)
Session Chair:
Lauren Clayman (NASA Glenn Research Center)
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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Advancements in Lifetime Testing, Reliability and Manufacturability of SiGe Unicouples Prepared with SPS Materials for GPHS-RTG Applications
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Jonathan Pierce (Johns Hopkins APL), Richard Ung (Johns Hopkins APL), Jake Ballard (Johns Hopkins APL), Tim Holgate (Johns Hopkins APL), Rasdip Singh (Soal Technologies), Mousumi Mitra (Univ. Virginia), Scott Misture (Alfred Univ.), Joseph Poon (Univ. Virginia), Timothy Erickson (Johns Hopkins APL), Paul Ostdiek (Johns Hopkins APL), Rama Venkatasubramanian (Johns Hopkins APL)
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Technology Demonstrator of an Americium-Fuelled Radioisotope Stirling Generator
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Hannah Sargeant (Univ. Leicester), Salvatore Oriti (NASA Glenn Research Center), Kris Bell (Univ. Leicester), Rob Tute (Univ. Leicester), Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester), Ernestina Wozniak (NASA Glenn Research Center), Matthew Stang (NASA Glenn Research Center), Ronald Leibach (NASA Glenn Research Center), Tony Crawford (Univ. Leicester), Alessandra Barco (Univ. Leicester), Emily Jane Watkinson (Univ. Leicester), Richard Ambrosi (Univ. Leicester)
Industrial Manufacturing Process of AmO2 Powder from a Pu Solution: Separation, Conversion and Calcination
10:50–11:15AM CDT
T. Prevost (Orano), G. Kauric (Orano), C. Brachon (Orano)
A Methodology and Demonstration for Preliminary Tier Determination Analyses
11:15–11:40AM CDT
Daniel J. Clayton (Sandia)
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