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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|Fusion and Plasma Physics
Friday, April 4, 2025|1:10–2:30PM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Alternate Chair:
Jared Justice
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Solver for Liquid Metal Flow Channel Simulations
1:10–1:30PM MDT
Brandon Partee (Tennessee State), Yuqiao Fan (ORNL)
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Channel Width Analysis for Blanket Design In Fusion Reactors
1:30–1:50PM MDT
Jazzmarya K. Hamilton (Tennessee State), Monica Gehrig (ORNL)
Effects of Gas Feed on Plasma-Liquid Electrolysis for Nitrogen Fixation
1:50–2:10PM MDT
Emily Gillmore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Brandon Kamiyama (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ali Eslamisaray (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates
2:10–2:30PM MDT
Adam Rousseau (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mohan Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Souvik Bhattacharya (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Matthew Confer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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