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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 MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Caleb Massey (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Low-Pressure and Fluidized-Bed Chemical Vapor Deposition of PyC and ZrC for Space Nuclear Propulsion
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Eddie Lopez-Honorato (ORNL), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL), Ryan Heldt (ORNL), Grant W. Helmreich (ORNL), Katherine Montoya (ORNL), Peter Doyle (ORNL), William F. Cureton (ORNL), John D. Hunn (ORNL)
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Progress Toward In Situ Tempered, Additively Manufactured Ferritic-Martensitic Steels
1:20–1:40PM PDT
C.R. Lear (LANL), T.J. Lienert (Optomec), S.A. Maloy (PNNL)
Counterfeit Prevention Using Thermal Imaging for Binder-Jet Printed Parts
1:40–2:00PM PDT
James Oti (Univ. Pittsburgh), Ryan Wassel (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jung-Kun Lee (Univ. Pittsburgh), Nikhil Bajaj (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Development of a Hastelloy N-Based ODS Alloy Through Laser Powder-Bed Fusion (LPBF) Additive Manufacturing (AM)
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Ertugrul Demir (NCSU), Fedi Fehri (NCSU), Matt DeJong (NCSU), Sourabh Saptarshi (NCSU), Tim Horn (NCSU), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
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