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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|Panel|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM MST|Copperwood
Session Chair:
James Cole (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Benjamin Martin (Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex)
Session Organizers:
Kermit A. Bunde
John A. Miller
This panel session is for sharing tools, lessons learned, challenges and associated with the management of and regulatory oversight for NCS programs. This panel builds on the discussions in previous sessions of lesson learned and training and qualification. However, it looks to share the perspective from more of a programmatic aspect as compared to a floor application level. The session will touch on oversight practices, conduct, and reporting. Panelists from industry and regulatory bodies will present.
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