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2026 Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Valar achieves cold criticality at LANL
Valar Atomics has announced that its Nova Core achieved zero-power criticality on November 17 at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) at the Nevada National Security Site.
Educational Session|Panel|Workforce Development/Challenges
Tuesday, August 9, 2022|1:30–3:00PM EDT|Calusa 8-9
Track Organizer:
Bruce Hennigan (Constellation)
Knowledge Manager:
John Mobley IV (Iowa State University)
A sharing of change management and learnings following changes occurring with revisions to NUREG 1021 R12 and ACAD 10-001 R2 primarily affecting the Initial Licensed Operator Program timelines and content throughout the industry. This along with NRC changes that levelized the regional exam schedules has resulted in significant utility process and program changes for hiring, onboarding and qualifying licensed operators.
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