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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|Nuclear Criticality Safety
Friday, April 4, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Mirage/Thunderbird
Session Chair:
Matthew J. Lazaric
Alternate Chair:
Yuliia Trujillo
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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LLNL Criticality Safety Handbook Project
9:00–9:20AM MDT
David A. Cerny (Univ. California, Berkeley), Alan Yamanaka (LLNL)
Paper
Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Alessandro Ingegno (Univ. California, Berkeley), Daniel J. Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley), William J. Zywiec (LLNL)
Explicit Modeling of B4C in Neutron Absorber Plates
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Eirena M. Klemes (NCSU)
Real-Time Neutron Source Localization Using the NoMAD Detector and Random Forest Regression
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Natalie L. Cannon (Georgia Tech), Nicholas W. Thompson (LANL), Jesson D. Hutchinson (LANL), Steven R. Biegalski (Georgia Tech), Anna S. Erickson (Georgia Tech), Mark Smith-Nelson (LANL)
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