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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Aalo Atomics discusses the road ahead
Yasir Arafat, president and chief technology officer of Aalo Atomics, participated in the first day of sessions at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC). There, he recapped some of the company’s recent milestones and revealed new details on what lies ahead for Aalo.
His attendance at the event coincided with a number of announcements in the past two weeks. Those announcements covered new contracts with Global Nuclear Fuel and Baker Hughes, the release of a new strategic roadmap, the completion of fuel enrichment by Urenco USA, and a new approval from the Department of Energy.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Noble
Session Chair:
Michael Nole (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chven Mitchell (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Impact of Inventory Changes on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Performance Assessment
10:00–10:20AM MST
Seth King (Sandia), James Bethune (Sandia), Sarah Brunell (Sandia), Dwayne Kicker (Sandia), Sungtae Kim (Sandia)
Paper
Moving from 2D to 3D Flow Modeling for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Performance Assessment
10:20–10:40AM MST
Tara LaForce (Sandia), Seth King (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia)
A Next-Generation Transport Simulator for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Performance Assessment
10:40–11:00AM MST
Jennifer M. Frederick (Sandia), Michael A. Nole (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia)
Modeling Geologic Waste Repository Systems Below Residual Saturation
11:00–11:20AM MST
Matthew Paul (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia), Michael Nole (Sandia)
Newton Trust Region Methods for Nuclear Waste Repository Porous Media Flow Simulations
11:20–11:40AM MST
Heeho Park (Sandia)
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