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2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
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Don’t get boxed in: Entergy CNO Kimberly Cook-Nelson shares her journey
Kimberly Cook-Nelson
For Kimberly Cook-Nelson, the path to the nuclear industry started with a couple of refrigerator boxes and cellophane paper. Her sixth-grade science project was inspired by her father, who worked at Seabrook power station in New Hampshire as a nuclear operator.
“I had two big refrigerator boxes I taped together. I cut the ‘primary operating system’ and the ‘secondary system’ out of them. Then I used different colored cellophane paper to show the pressurized water system versus the steam versus the cold cooling water,” Cook-Nelson said. “My dad got me those little replica pellets that I could pass out to people as they were going by at my science fair.”
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Mark Gilbert (UK Atomic Energy Agency)
Alternate Chair:
Leigh Winfrey
Session Organizer:
Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL)
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High Yield Neutron Source for Near-Term Fusion Material Testing
Ross F. Radel (Phoenix), Preston Barrows (SHINE Technologies), Tye Gribb (SHINE Technologies), Lucas Jacobson (SHINE Technologies)
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Use of LANSCE Spallation Neutrons to Drive a Fusion Prototypic Neutron Source
Eric J. Pitcher (LANL), Yuri K. Batygin (LANL), Stuart A. Maloy (LANL), Eric R. Olivas (LANL), Keith A. Woloshun (LANL)
Advanced Synchrotron Characterization Techniques for Fusion Materials Science
David Sprouster (Stony Brook Univ.), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook Univ.), Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Takaaki Koyanagi (ORNL), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL)
Analytical Electron Microscopy, Atom Probe, and Machine Learning for Transmutation Characterization
Chad M. Parish (ORNL), Philip D. Edmondson (ORNL)
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