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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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NRC begins special inspection at Hope Creek
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is conducting a special inspection at Hope Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey to investigate the cause of repeated inoperability of one of the plant’s emergency diesel generators, the agency announced in a February 25 news release.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|1:00–2:40PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Zane Wallen (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Jian Gan (INL)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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Bridging Gaps in High Uranium Density Fuels Proposed for Advanced Reactors
1:00–1:40PM CST
Elizabeth S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Paper
Characterization of Defects in Uranium Carbide Using XAS and Neutron Scattering
1:40–2:00PM CST
Arjen van Veelen (LANL), Adrien J. Terricabras (LANL), Scarlett Widgeon Paisner (LANL), Tarik Saleh (LANL), Joshua T. White (LANL)
Understanding Phase Relationships in the Uranium-Carbon-Niobium/Tantalum Systems
2:00–2:20PM CST
Geronimo Robles (LANL), Shane Mann (LANL), Erofili Kardoulaki (LANL), Joshua White (LANL), Najeb Abdul-Jabar (LANL)
Fabrication and Thermophysical Properties of (U,Zr)C; A High Uranium Density Fuel Candidate for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors
2:20–2:40PM CST
E. Kardoulaki (LANL), S. Widgeon Paisner (LANL), D. Byler (LANL), A. Gonzales (LANL), J. Schaeperkoetter (LANL), J. White (LANL), K. McClellan (LANL)
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