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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Valar achieves cold criticality at LANL
Valar Atomics has announced that its Nova Core achieved zero-power criticality on November 17 at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) at the Nevada National Security Site.
Technical Session|Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards
Saturday, April 6, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Leonhard Building Room 102
Session Chair:
Aaron P. Fjeldsted (Penn State University)
Alternate Chair:
Chris Balbier (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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A History of Nuclear Treaties and Verification Methods
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State)
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Nuclear Wargaming
10:35–10:55AM EDT
David Darlington (U.S. Military Academy), Tyler Erwin (U.S. Military Academy), Erick Lara (U.S. Military Academy), Michael O'Connor (U.S. Military Academy)
Laser-Driven X-Ray Source Array Design for Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Roberto E. Lopez (U.S. Military Academy), Owen X. Koster (U.S. Military Academy), Joshua Santina (U.S. Military Academy), Ryan A. Brockington (U.S. Military Academy)
Predicting Compositions of Mixed-Type Simulated Nuclear Explosions from Fallout Activity Using Inverse Gaussian Process Regressor Modeling
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Ryan M. Mott (NCSU)
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