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Organized to promote the advancement of knowledge in the use of nuclear science and technologies in the aerospace application. Specialized nuclear-based technologies and applications are needed to advance the state-of-the-art in aerospace design, engineering and operations to explore planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond, plus enhance the safety of air travel, especially high speed air travel. Areas of interest will include but are not limited to the creation of nuclear-based power and propulsion systems, multifunctional materials to protect humans and electronic components from atmospheric, space, and nuclear power system radiation, human factor strategies for the safety and reliable operation of nuclear power and propulsion plants by non-specialized personnel and more.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Michael Tonks (University of Florida)
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Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Assessment of Local Thermal Conductivity and Microstructure of Ultra-Low Burnup U-20 wt% Pu- 10 wt% Zr Alloy
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Cynthia Adkins (INL), Ethan Hisle (INL), Daniele Salvato (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida), Tiankai Yao (INL)
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Comparison of Porosity Distribution in U-Zr and U-Pu-Zr
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Mitch Mika (Univ. Florida), Luca Capriotti (INL), Tiankai Yao (INL), Fei Xu (INL), Karen Wright (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Advances in Metallic Fuel Database Development and Data Qualification
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Kun Mo (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL), Yinbin Miao (ANL), Dandan Zhang (ANL), Jason L. Schulthess (INL), Douglas L. Porter (INL), Abdellatif Yacout (ANL)
Pulsed Neutron Characterization of Irradiated Fuels at LANSCE
2:00–2:20PM PDT
S.C. Vogel (LANL), James R. Angell (INL), T. Balke (Purdue Univ.), C.A. Bouman (Purdue Univ.), F. Cappia (INL), D.T. Carver (LANL), L. Capriotti (INL), A.E. Craft (INL), J. Harp (ORNL), P. Hoseman (Univ. California, Berkeley), E.J. Larson (LANL), A.M. Long (LANL), A.S. Losko (Technical Univ. Munich), K.J. McClellan (LANL), B.E. Wohlberg (LANL)
Integral Experimental Investigations of Radioisotope Evaporation in Molten Lead for the Mechanistic Source Term Evaluation of Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor
2:20–2:40PM PDT
Malak Bani-Melhem (Univ. New Mexico), Michael Trombetta (Univ. New Mexico), Shuprio Ghosh (Univ. New Mexico), Jared Justice (Univ. New Mexico), Sung J. Lee (Fauske & Assoc.), Michael Epstein (Fauske & Assoc.), Emre Tatli (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Paolo Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Osman Anderoglu (Univ. New Mexico)
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