Advances in Non-Metallics

Thermomechanical Properties of Ultrahigh-Temperature Ceramics from First Principles: Influence of Electron-Vibration Couplings, Neutron Irradiation, and Compositional Disorder

10:00–10:20AM MDT

Michele Simoncelli (Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University)

Targeted Irradiations for Evaluating SiC/SiC Cladding Performance

10:20–10:40AM MDT

Christian M. Petrie (ORNL), Nicholas G. Russell (ORNL), Daniel Hott (ORNL), Peter Doyle (ORNL), David Chandler (ORNL), Jose D. Arregui-Mena (ORNL), Sean Gonderman (General Atomics), Christian P. Deck (General Atomics), Takaaki Koyanagi (ORNL)

Development of Compositionally Complex Carbides as Structural Materials for Fission and Fusion Energy

10:40–11:00AM MDT

Bai Cui (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln)

Correlation of Global Stoichiometry, Crystal Chemistry, and Phase Morphology in UC/UC₂ Kernels Produced by Carbothermic Reduction

11:00–11:20AM MDT

Denise Adorno Lopes (ORNL), Katherine I. Montoya (ORNL), Bekah Petrosky (ORNL), James M. Kurley III, William F. Cureton, Eddie Lopez Honorato (ORNL), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL), Ryan Heldt

Metal hydride neutron moderators for advanced nuclear applications

11:20–11:40AM MDT

Thomas P. Davis (Oxford Sigma), Joe Pollard (Oxford Sigma)