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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Troy Munro
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
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Rick Michal (ANS)
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Monte Carlo Simulations of Uranium Carbide Migration in Molten Uranium
William E. Frazier (PNNL), Shenyang Hu (PNNL), Nikhil Deshmukh (PNNL), Jordan F. Corbey (PNNL)
Paper
Sensitivity Analysis for New Hydrogen Migration and Redistribution Model in BISON
Seokbin Seo (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Miles O'Neal (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville)
Oxidation of the SiC Layer of Tristructural-Isotropic Particles in High-Temperature Mixed Gas Atmospheres
Katherine I. Montoya (Univ. of Texas San Antonio), Brian A. Brigham (Univ. of Texas San Antonio), Tyler J. Gerczak (ORNL), Elizabeth S. Sooby (Univ. of Texas San Antonio)
Fabrication of Magnesia-Zirconium Hydride (MgO-ZrHx) Composite Moderators
Caen Ang (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Lance Snead (Stony Brook Univ.), Matthew Scott (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Edward M. Duchnowski (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Nicholas Brown (Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville), Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Microstructure and Thermophysical Properties of Sintered BeO-MgO Composite Moderators
Bin Cheng (Stony Brook Univ.), David J. Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook Univ.), Jason R. Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
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