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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine A
Session Chair:
Praveen Thallapally (PNNL)
Alternate Chair:
Junghyun Bae
Session Organizer:
Harish Reddy Gadey
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Multi-Orientation Depth of Field Imaging with Cosmic-Ray Muons
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Jesus J. Valencia (Univ. New Mexico), J. Bacon (LANL), J M. Durham (LANL), E. Guardincerri (LANL), A.A. Hecht (Univ. New Mexico), C.L. Morris (LANL), D. Poulson (LANL)
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Homogeneity Evaluation for Geopolymer Waste Form with Spent Ion-Exchange Resin
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Seokyoung Oh (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Byoungkwan Kim (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Hyun-min Ma (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Wooyong Um (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology)
Impact of Ba on the Immobilization of Selenate Ettringite in Metakaolin-Based Geopolymer Waste Form
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Hyun-min Ma (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Byoungkwan Kim (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Seokyoung Oh (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology), Wooyong Um (Pohang Univ. Science and Technology)
On Demand HCl Production for Chlorination of U from Dissociated NH4Cl Through the Catalytic Removal of Ammonia Vapor
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Collin Andersen (Univ. Utah), Krista Carlson (Univ. Nevada, Reno), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah)
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