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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 MSTD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|3:15–5:00PM CDT|Room 7
Session Chair:
Annabelle Le Coq
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Designing the Vendor Irradiation Graphite Experiment in the Advanced Test Reactor
3:15–3:35PM CDT
Grant L. Hawkes (Idaho National Laboratory), Michael Fanning (Idaho National Laboratory), Angelica M. Cruz (Idaho National Laboratory)
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Yttrium Hydride Neutron Irradiations in the High Flux Isotope Reactor
3:35–3:55PM CDT
Adrian Schrell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Caitlin A. Kohnert (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Kory Linton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Annabelle Le Coq (Materials Science & Technology Division), Mahmut N. Cinbiz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ROADRUNNER: a MiniFuel Experiment to Collect Irradiation Performance Data on Uranium Nitride Specimens using the High Flux Isotope Reactor
3:55–4:15PM CDT
Annabelle Le Coq (Materials Science & Technology Division), Denise Adorno Lopes (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Adrian Schrell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Grant W. Helmreich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Peter Doyle (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Joshua T. White (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Nathan Capps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Jason M. Harp (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kory Linton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas San Antonio)
Exploration of 232Th Fast Fission Products using Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors for Future Fission-Fusion Fragment Rocket Application
4:15–4:35PM CDT
Sandeep Puri (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and AstronomyTexas Tech University), Noah D'Amico (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Cuikun Lin (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Ian D. Jones (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Andrew K. Gillespie (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University), Bo Zhao (College of Arts and Sciences Microscopy, Texas Tech University), Ryan Weed (Positron Dynamics), Robert Duncan (Center for Emerging Energy Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University)
Advanced Characterization of Irradiated Ga2O3: Unveiling Vacancy Defects through Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
4:35–4:55PM CDT
Shams Noor (North Carolina State University), Ming Liu (North Carolina State University), Lucia Rebeca Gomez Hurtado (North Carolina State University), Ayman I. Hawari (North Carolina State University), Ge Yang (North Carolina State University)
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