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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
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
LianGe Zheng (LBNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jenn Frederick (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Simplified Computations of Radionuclide Transport in Complex Fracture Networks in Deep Crystalline Rock
1:00–1:20PM MST
Osvaldo Pensado (Southwest Research Institute), Stuart Stothoff (Southwest Research Institute), Mrityunjai Sharma (Uppsala Univ.), Joel Geier (Clearwater Hardrock Consulting), Auli Niemi (Uppsala Univ.), Chin-Fu Tsang (LLNL)
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Development of Radionuclide Transport Model in the Near Field Considering the Long-Term Evolution of Excavation Damaged Zone
1:20–1:40PM MST
Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI)
Effect of Considering Hydraulic Rock Mass Domain on Nuclide Transport in Fractured Rock
1:40–2:00PM MST
Yong-Min Kim (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI), Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Sung-Hoon Ji (KAERI)
DECOVALEX Task F DOE Crystalline Reference Case Results
2:00–2:20PM MST
Rosie Leone (Sandia), Emily Stein (Sandia), Jeffrey D. Hyman (LANL)
Modeling of Fractured Rock Under Stress for Nuclear Waste Disposal Applications
2:20–2:40PM MST
Teklu Hadgu (Sandia), Yifeng Wang (Sandia)
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