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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Technical Session|Detection and Analysis
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Tsuyoshi Kohlgruber
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Sensitized 248Cm Circularly Polarized Luminescence Reveals Unique Spectroscopic Signatures
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Appie Peterson (Berkeley Lab), Jospeh A. Adewuyi (Univ. Connecticut), Joshua J. Woods (Berkeley Lab), Rebecca J. Abergel (Berkeley Lab), Gael Ung (Univ. Connecticut)
Paper
Attachment — Cm-248 CPL Presentation
The Curious Case of Pu+: An Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) Investigation of the Energy Dependence of Pu+ Reactions with Small Molecules
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Richard M. Cox (PNNL), Kali M. Melby (PNNL), Amanda D. French (PNNL), Michael J. Rodriguez (PNNL), Micah P. Prange (PNNL), Niranjan Govind (PNNL)
Attachment
Statistical Lessons for Plutonium Signature Identification and Characterization
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Daniel Ries (Sandia), Adah Zhang (Sandia), Madeline Stricklin (LANL), J. Derek Tucker (Sandia)
CE-ICP-MS Investigation of the Gluconate Complexation of Plutonium in Different Oxidation States and of Other Actinides in the Presence of Calcium
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Janik Lohmann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tamara Kutyma (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Alexander Wiebe (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tobias Reich (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz)
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