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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Discovering, Making, and Testing New Materials: SRNL’s Center For Hierarchical Waste Form Materials
Savannah River National Laboratory researchers are building on the laboratory’s legacy of using cutting-edge science to effectively immobilize nuclear waste in innovative ways. As part of the Center for Hierarchical Waste Form Materials, SRNL is leveraging its depth of experience in radiological waste management to explore new frontiers in the industry.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FED
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Room 8
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clement A. Simon
Alternate Chair:
Paul W. Humrickhouse
Session Organizer:
Thomas Fuerst
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Benchmark interatomic potentials for fusion materials applications
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Mianzhen Mo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Umang Agarwal (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Mungo Frost (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Edna R. Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Fuhao Ji (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Benjamin Ofori-Okai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Silvia Pandolfi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Matthew Ricks (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Alexander Reid (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Eric Sung (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Peihao Sun (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xiaozhe Shen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Katie Wootten (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xijie Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen), Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University of Duisburg-Essen), Yongqiang Wang (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Peter Hosemann (University of California, Berkeley), Weicheng Zhong (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Erki Metsanurk (Uppsala University), Artur Tamm (University of Tartu), Alfredo A. Correa (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Paper
Decay-Activation Analysis of Reduced Activation Ferritic Martensitic Steel In Fusion Reactors
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Ishita Trivedi (Idaho National Laboratory), Nicolas E. Woolstenhulme (Idaho National Laboratory), Hanns Gietl (Idaho National Laboratory), Michael Moorehead (Idaho National Laboratory), Alexander L. Swearingen (Idaho National Laboratory), Katie Hawkins (Idaho National Laboratory), Tommy Holschuh (Idaho National Laboratory), Michael Reichenberger (Idaho National Laboratory), Kevin Tsai (Idaho National Laboratory)
Silicon-Based Chemical Vapor Deposition Coatings as Tritium Permeation Barriers
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Thomas Fuerst (Idaho National Laboratory), Chase N. Taylor (Idaho National Laboratory), Masashi Shimada (Idaho National Laboratory)
Tritium Breeding Blanket Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Ross F. Radel (SHINE Technologies, LLC), Lucas Jacobson (SHINE Technologies), Mark Gilbert (UK Atomic Energy Authority), Rob Bamber (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
Demonstration of Proton-Boron Fusion in a Helicon-Assisted Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Device
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Erik P. Ziehm (University of Illinois), Rohan Puri (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), George H. Miley (University of Illinois)
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