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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.
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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