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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Standards Program
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood (PNNL)
Alternate Chairs:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Current Status of Regulatory Fuel Research Progress in Korea
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yongsik Yang (KAERI), JangSoo Oh (KAERI), Jaeyong Kim (KAERI), Changhwan Shin (KAERI), Ju Yeop Park (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Taewan Kim (Incheon Nat'l Univ.)
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Quantitative Insights into the Fluidization of Surrogate Particle Fuel Forms
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Bryan Conry (ORNL), Ryan Heldt (ORNL), Eddie Lopez-Honorato (ORNL), Elvis Dominguez-Ontiveros (ORNL), Tyler Gerczak (ORNL)
Incorporating a Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Process into Nuclear Fuel and Materials Development for Advanced Reactors
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Sai Zhang (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Peng Xu (INL)
Numerical Analysis of Fluidized Bed Chemical Vapor Deposition of Pyrolytic Carbon for Tristructural-Isotropic (TRISO) Fuel Particles
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Flavio Dal Forno Chuahy (ORNL), Oluwafemi Oyedeji (ORNL), Eddie Lopez-Honorato (ORNL), Charles Finney (ORNL)
Development of TRISO Particle Fuel Performance Analysis Code TRIPLE
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Jongho Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Youho Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Thermophysical Properties of a (U,Zr)C Solid Solution Fuel for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
4:55–5:05PM PDT
J. Schaeperkoetter (LANL), S. Widgeon Paisner (LANL), D. Byler (LANL), A. Gonzales (LANL), J. White (LANL), B. Taylor (Marshall Space Flight Center), J. Rosales (Marshall Space Flight Center), K. McClellan (LANL), E. Kardoulaki (LANL)
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