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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
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Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Trump picks former N.Y. congressman for NNSA administrator
Williams
President Trump has selected Brandon Williams to head the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
Williams is a former one-term congressman (R., N.Y.),from 2023 to the beginning of 2025. Prior to political office he served in the U.S. Navy. Williams’s run for office gained attention in 2022 when he defeated fellow navy veteran Francis Conole, a Democrat, but he lost the seat last November to Democrat John Mannion.
“I will be honored to lead the tremendous scientific and engineering talent at NNSA,” Williams said, thanking Trump, according to WSYR-TV in Syracuse, N.Y.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Steven B. Krivit
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Yasuhiro Iwamura
According to the best understanding so far, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) are the result of neutron-based electroweak interactions. They are a class of nuclear reactions that occur at or near room temperature based on Standard Model physics and can occur in condensed matter under mild macrophysical conditions. They differ from nuclear fission or fusion which rely on strong-force interactions. Unlike fission reactions, low-energy nuclear reactions do not produce nuclear chain reactions. Among novel concepts in nuclear energy research, LENRs are unique in that laboratory experiments have demonstrated the generation of net energy. The experimental research demonstrates the production of nuclear-scale heat and changes to atomic numbers and atomic masses of reactants.
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Material Analysis of Anomalous Heat Experiments Using Hydrogen-Filled Nanometallic Composites
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yasuhiro Iwamura (Tohoku Univ.), Takehiko Itoh (Tohoku Univ.), Shinobu Yamauchi (Clean Planet), Tomonori Takahashi (Clean Planet)
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions in Highly Driven Light Water Electrolysis: From Circumstantial Evidence to Unambiguous Nuclear Signatures
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ankit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Raviraj Nehra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Raj Ganesh Pala (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), K.P. Rajeev (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Peculiar Phenomena Observed in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactors
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Bin-Juine Huang (Nat'l Taiwan Normal Univ.), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices), Po-Hsien Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Jong-Fu Yeh (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ming-Li Tso (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ying-Hung Liu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Litu Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ching-Kang Huang (Advanced Thermal Devices), I-Fee Chen (Advanced Thermal Devices), Che-Hao Lin (Advanced Thermal Devices), T.R. Tseng (Mastek Technologies), Fang-Wei Kang (Mastek Technologies), Tan-Feng Tsai (Mastek Technologies), Kuan-Che Lan (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Yi-Tung Chen (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Mou-Yung Liao (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Li Xu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Sih-Li Chen (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Robert William Greenyer (Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project)
Linear Flow Network Analysis of Resonator in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Mou-Yung Liao (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Bin-Juine Huang (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Li Xu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Sih-Li Chen (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices), Kuan-Che Lan (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Yi-Tung Chen (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
Hot Hydrogen Testing of Uranium Nitride Cermet for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Benjamin Larson (Brigham Young Univ.), Jhonathan Rosales (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Brian Taylor (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Jason Reynolds (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Nathan Jerred (INL), Jamelle Williams (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Arne Croell (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Martin Volz (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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