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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.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Yongqiang Wang (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Philip L. Cole
Student Assistant:
Mereym Murphy
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Investigating Radiation Effects in Materials using State-of-the-Art Particle Accelerators
1:05–1:25PM EST
Devon Drey (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Eric O'Quinn (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Will Cureton (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Changyong Park (ANL), David Sprouster (State Univ. of New York), Joerg Neuefeind (ORNL), Christina Trautmann (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)
Paper
Application of Particle Accelerators to the Degradation of Materials in the Nuclear Reactor Core Environment
1:25–1:45PM EST
Gary S. Was (Univ. of Michigan)
The coupled effects of irradiation and corrosion on materials
1:45–2:05PM EST
Blas P. Uberuaga (LANL)
Ultra-high temperature ion irradiation effects in nuclear materials
2:05–2:25PM EST
Di Chen (Univ. of Houston)
Effects of Carbon and DPA Rates on Void Nucleation in Self-Ion-Irradiated Pure Iron
2:25–2:45PM EST
Zhihan Hu (TAMU), Lin Shao (TAMU)
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