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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|2:40–4:00PM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Shane M. Evans
Alternate Chair:
Jared Justice
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Plasma-Assisted Electrochemical Degradation of GenX
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Piper R. Fernau (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Feray Buyuktopcu (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Xiao Su (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mohan Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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First Results on Resistivity Probe Measuring Hydrogen Concentration in the Actively Pumped Open-surface Lithium LOop (APOLLO)
3:00–3:20PM MDT
Riley Trendler (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Dan O. O'Dea (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Braden T. Moore (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Peter Buxton (Tokamak Energy Ltd.), Konstantin Moshkunov (Tokamak Energy Ltd.), David N. Ruzic (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Advanced Simulation for First Wall Materials in Inertial Fusion Reactors
3:20–3:40PM MDT
Matthieu Dagousset (Young Members Group), Shobhit Brijesh (Univ. California, Berkeley), Jay Darji (Univ. California, Berkeley), Max Monange (EX-Fusion America), Alexander Fikri (EX-Fusion America)
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