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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
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|Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
Friday, April 4, 2025|10:30–11:50AM MDT|Santa Ana AB
Session Chair:
Mekiel Olguin
Alternate Chair:
Liam Pohlmann
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Development of SAM-OpenModelica Coupled Simulation for Co-Nuclear Concept Modeling
10:30–10:50AM MDT
Yifan Mao (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Travis Mui (ANL), Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL)
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Improving Confidence in Computational Methods for Helium Transmutation Calculations
10:50–11:10AM MDT
Alexander Birmingham (Univ. Michigan), Justin Hamil (Univ. Michigan), Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Benchmarking Project Peacock Against the ICSBEP Benchmarks and MCNP
11:10–11:30AM MDT
William Madsen (Brigham Young Univ.), William C. Dawn (Studsvik), Charles A. Wemple (Studsvik)
Convolutional Neural Networks Applied to theTemperature Reconstruction of Fuel Rods.
11:30–11:50AM MDT
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Victor Coppo Leite (INL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Lise Charlot (INL), Roberto Ponciroli (ANL), Lander Ibarra (ANL), Arthur T. Motta (Penn State)
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