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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
2022 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference Speaker
Dr. Ammerman has been at Sandia for 34 years working in the area of radioactive material transportation safety. He is the chairperson for the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code committee that is responsible for design rules for radioactive material packages and the vice-chair for the committee responsible for the construction of these packages. He was the technical program chairperson for the PATRAM 2013 and PATRAM 2019 conferences. PATRAM is the triennial international conference on the packaging and transportation of radioactive material. Doug has published over 100 technical articles and reports devoted to the safety of radioactive material transportation, is the lead author on the latest NRC spent fuel transportation risk assessment, and is the technical lead for Sandia’s work in design, analysis, and testing of radioactive material packages. He is the technical leader for Sandia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Grid Modernization Center, holding regular meetings with the senior technical staff and management regarding all aspects of the work being performed
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