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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Panel and Technical Session|Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Friday, April 14, 2023|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Student Union 262B
Session Chair:
Jonathan Norman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Hari Naicker (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Wetting Behavior of Molten Fluoride Salts on Graphite
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Lorenzo Vergari (UC-Berkeley), Zachary A. Falkowski (UC-Berkeley), Xin H. Ooi (CalTech), Raluca O. Scarlat (UC-Berkeley)
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Application of Microcantilever Bending Tests to Local Fracture Toughness Determination in W-Ni-Fe Ductile-Phase Toughened Tungsten
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Ana V. Garcia Caraveo (Oregon State), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State), Ramprashad Prabhakaran (PNNL), Haag IV J. V. (PNNL), Wahyu Setyawan (PNNL)
Microstructural Characterization and Oxidation Testing of Arc-Melted Mini UB2 Ingots
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Jesus U. Facundo (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Katherine I. Montoya (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Thomas C. Kirtley (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Elizabeth S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Study of Fuel Cladding Chemical Interaction (FCCI) in HT9 Cladded Metallic Fuels
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Arnold Pradhan (Univ. Idaho)
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