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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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State legislation: Illinois bill aims to lift state’s remaining nuclear moratorium
A bill that would fully repeal the state’s entire moratorium on new nuclear projects survived a key deadline in the Illinois General Assembly last week.
To stay afloat in the spring legislative session, bills needed to be assigned to committee by March 21, and state Sen. Sue Rezin’s Senate Bill 1527 now sits with the Senate’s Energy and Public Utilities committee for review.
Technical Session|Office of Nuclear Energy Funded Research (NEUP and UNLP Programs)
Saturday, April 5, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Tyler D. Newitt (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Cece Bell
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Design and Analysis of Gas Sparging Mass Transfer Experiment for Molten Salt Applications
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Andrew Hutsell (Young Members Group), Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jeremy Lopez (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Paper
Experimental Investigation Regarding the Determination of Microbubble Geometry in Molten Salt Sparging Environments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Andrew Hutsella (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Automating Spectroscopic Analysis of Lithium Isotopic Composition with Convolutional Neural Networks
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Julianna M. White (NCSU), Nusrat Karim (NCSU), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Development of a Graphite Pebble Test Bed for Experimental Validation of Pebble Flow Simulations
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Ethan H. Nicolls (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ming Fang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sohaib S. Malik (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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