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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Technical Session|Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards
Saturday, April 5, 2025|1:40–3:00PM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Alternate Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Spectral Feature Selection Approaches for Weapons Grade Plutonium Classification with GADRAS-DRF
1:40–2:00PM MDT
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State), Camille Palmer (Oregon State)
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Improvements in Line Broadening for Simulating Microcalorimetric Gamma Spectroscopy
2:00–2:20PM MDT
James T. Cahill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Patience Obasi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Feynman-Y Measurements of Cm-244 and Cf-252 Sources with Organic Scintillators
2:20–2:40PM MDT
Oscar P. Stennes (Univ. Michigan), Flynn B. Darby (Univ. Michigan), Juliann R. Lamproe (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan), Sara A. Pozzi (Univ. Michigan)
Modeling of Scintillation and Semiconductor Detectors for Nonproliferation Applications
2:40–3:00PM MDT
Tyrell B. Simmons (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Aristidis Loumis (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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