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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Uranium prices rise to highest level in more than two months
Analyst firm Trading Economics posted a uranium futures value of about $82.00 per pound on January 5—the highest futures value in more than two months.
In late October, it had listed a futures price of about $82.30/lb. By late November, the price had fallen to under $76.00/lb.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Jasmine C
Session Chair:
Haiyan Zhao (Univ. Idaho)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State)
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Will Compositionally Complex Carbide Ceramics be Enabling Materials for Nuclear Energy Applications?
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Bai Cui (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Fei Wang (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Lanh Trinh (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Kaustubh Bawane (INL), Zilong Hua (INL), Linu Malakka (INL), Lingfeng He (NCSU), Khalid Hattar (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Luke Wadle (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), Yongfeng Lu (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln)
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Simultaneous Corrosion/Irradiation Testing in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic (LBE) for FeCrAlY and FeNiCrAlNb Alloys
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ertugrul Demir (NCSU), Saikumaran Ayyapan (NCSU), Weiyue Zhou (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT), Djamel Kaoumi (NCSU)
Creep Analysis of Passive Metallic Structures in Nuclear Reactors with Machine Learning
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Ugur Cotul (Purdue Univ.), Gabrielle Carrel (ANL), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
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Fine-Tuned Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Predicting Radiation Damage Tolerance in V-Cr-Ti Alloys
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Myles G. Stapelberg (MIT), James Damewood (MIT), James Xu (MIT), Dennis Whyte (MIT), Michael P. Short (MIT)
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