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“Life is a roller coaster. It’s best ridden with your hands in the air.”
Craig Piercycpiercy@ans.org
I find myself saying the expression above a lot these days—to my kids, my wife, my friends, and colleagues. Most recently, I said it to the person sitting next to me after the pilot of our plane—bound for Reagan National Airport a day after the collision of AA flight 5342 and a military Blackhawk helicopter—aborted the landing at the last minute.
I am not sure where I picked up this pronouncement, but I find it to be apropos to the topsy-turvy moment where we find ourselves in 2025. In addition to the first U.S. commercial airline crash in 15 years, we are witnessing a new presidential administration in its infancy playing by the Silicon Valley rules of “move fast, break things.” We’ve seen DeepSeek, the low-cost Chinese AI that reportedly uses 50–75 percent less energy than its NVIDIA-powered counterparts, tank Constellation’s market value by more than 20 percent in one late-January trading day.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
Heng Ban
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
Jessie Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Molten Salt Thermal Conductivity Sensor
Peter C. Kasper (Brigham Young University), Troy Munro (Brigham Young University), Kirsten Steele (Brigham Young University), Jace Davis (Brigham Young University), Jay Bettinger (Brigham Young University), Erik Barbosa (Brigham Young University), Aaron Thorum (Brigham Young University), Connor Last (Brigham Young University)
Paper
Data Analytic Methodology for an Optical Fiber Based Gamma Thermometer Array
Tyler Gates (Texas A&M University), Thomas E. Blue (The Ohio State University), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (Texas A&M University), Joshua Jones (The Ohio State University), Anthony Birri (Ohio State University)
Initial Embedding of Function Sensors in Additive Manufactured Silicon Carbide
Christian M. Petrie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Kurt A. Terrani (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Brian C. Jolly (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Dylan Richardson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Adrian Schrell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
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