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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Acacia
Session Chair:
Julie Jacobson (NEUP/INL)
Alternate Chair:
Andrew E. Thomas (NEUP)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Low-Temperature Cladding Failure During a R.I.A Transient for High-Burnup Fuels
1:00–1:20PM MST
Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State), William J. Walters (Penn State)
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Fuel Performance Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis Methodology for Aleatoric and Epistemic Sources of Uncertainties
1:20–1:40PM MST
Quentin Faure (NCSU), Gregory Delipei (NCSU), Maria Avramova (NCSU), Kostadin Ivanov (NCSU), Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE)
Swelling Behavior of a Clay-Pellets Mixture Intended for the Isolation of Spent Nuclear Fuel
1:40–2:00PM MST
Abdulvahit Sahin (TAMU), Roa'a AL-Masri (TAMU), Marcelo Sanchez (TAMU), Yongliang Xiong (Sandia), Thomas Dewers (Sandia), Edward N. Matteo (Sandia)
Pelletized Clay Mixtures with Enhanced Thermal Conductivity Intended for the Isolation of High-Level Nuclear Waste
2:00–2:20PM MST
Roa'a AL-Masri (TAMU), Abdulvahit Sahin (TAMU), Marcelo Sanchez (TAMU), Yongliang Xiong (Sandia), Thomas Dewers (Sandia), Edward N. Matteo (Sandia)
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