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Valar achieves cold criticality at LANL

November 18, 2025, 3:02PMNuclear News

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.

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