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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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.
General Chair:
Jason Jeffries (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Program Chair:
Kiel Holliday (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Local Organizing Committee:
Jason Jeffries (LLNL)
Kiel Holliday (LLNL)
Tien Roehling (LLNL)
Emily Moore (LLNL)
Program Committee:
Thomas Albrecht-Schoenzart (Col. School of Mines)
Allen Dalton (NNSA/HQ)
Dallas Reilly (PNNL)
Gauthier Deblonde (LLNL)
Paul Roussel (AWE)
Scott Donald (LLNL)
Tarik Saleh (LANL)
Krzysztof Gofryk (INL)
Moritz Schmidt (HZDR)
Matthew Higginson (AWE)
David Shuh (LBNL)
Amy Hixon (Notre Dame)
Vijay Varsani (AWE)
Nina Huittinen (Univ. of Berlin)
Richard Wilson (ANL)
Rudy Konings (JRC)
Ping Yang (LANL)
Alexander Landa (LLNL)
Mavrik Zavarin (LLNL)
Boris Maiorov (LANL)
International Advisory Committee:
Scott Bazley (AWE)
Yoshinori Haga (JAEA)
Herve Bernard (CEA)
Ladislav Havela (Charles Univ., Prague)
Kerri Blobaum (LLNL)
Siegfried Hecker (Stanford Univ.)
Roberto Caciuffo (JRC)
Gerry Lander (ILL)
Herve Chollet (CEA)
Scott McCall (LLNL)
David Clark (LANL)
Sarah Nelson (NNSA/HQ)
Rodney Ewing (Stanford Univ.)
Alistair Parkes (AWE)
Thomas Fanghanel (JRC)
Franz Freibert (LANL)
Gerrit van der Laan (Diamon Light Source)
Philippe Gilbaud (CEA)
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