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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 Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 1
Session Chair:
Tyler Gerczak (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Adrien Couet
Track Organizers:
Andrew Hoffman (n/a)
Stu Maloy (PNNL)
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Thermal Stability and Environmentally-Assisted Cracking of Ferritic-Martensitic Steels in Sodium Reactor Coolant Environments
3:10–3:50PM CST
Julie D. Tucker (Oregon State), Benjamin Adam (Oregon State), Samuel A. Briggs (Oregon State), Caitlin Huotilainen (TerraPower), Adam Koziol (Oregon State), Dustin Mangus (Oregon State), Guillaume Mignot (Oregon State), David J. Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.)
Paper
Long-Term Thermal Ageing Effects in HT9 and Structure-Property Characterization
3:50–4:10PM CST
D. Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.), B. Adam (Oregon State), A. Koziol (Oregon State), L. Rolly (Oregon State), C. Huotilainen (TerraPower), J.D. Tucker (Oregon State)
The Effect of Variable Strain Rate on Environmentally Assisted Cracking of 316L in Molten FLiNaK
4:10–4:30PM CST
Xavier Quintana (Oregon State), Jake Quincey (Oregon State), Julie D. Tucker (Oregon State), Samuel Briggs (Oregon State)
Study on Eutectic Melting and Relocation Behavior of B4C Powder and Stainless Steel Through Radiative Heating
4:30–4:50PM CST
Zeeshan Ahmed (Univ. Tokyo), Marco Pellegrini (Univ. Tokyo), Yamano Hidemasa (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Avadhesh K. Sharma (Univ. Tokyo), Koji Okamoto (Univ. Tokyo)
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