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  Aalo Atomics achieves criticality on July 4
  Executive Order 14301 set an ambitious goal for at least three test reactors to achieve criticality by July 4. Two private companies participating in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program—Antares and Valar Atomics—reached this stage earlier in June, and Deployable Energy—participating in the DOE's Nuclear Energy Launch Pad—became the third last week.
  In the last few weeks, reports indicated that Aalo would be next, reaching criticality at Idaho National Laboratory with a low-enriched uranium–fueled, sodium-cooled reactor on or near the target date set forth by President Trump’s EO 14301. In the early hours of July 4, Aalo’s critical test reactor—a full-scale zero-power version of its planned 10-MWe Aalo-X—did just that, becoming the fourth DOE-authorized reactor to hit the milestone.
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ANS Chicago and Michigan-Ohio Section Event

Students of Nuclear Science

February 15, 2024|6:00–7:00PM (7:00–8:00PM EST)

Available to All Users

The ANS Chicago and Michigan-Ohio Sections invite you to hear presentations from advanced-degree students within their sections. Featured presentations and speakers include:

Fault Tree Analysis of an Innovative Thermal Power Dispatch System for Nuclear Power Plants
Vinicius Zanardo Rodrigues, PhD Candidate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Ohio State University

A Radical New Approach to Etching Plasma Diagnostics: Measuring Fluorine Radicals
Jeremy Mettler, MSc Candidate, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Development of Tapered Specimens for Accelerated Ion Irradiation Creep Testing of 316SS
Mackenzie Warwick, PhD Candidate, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, The University of Michigan