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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2025)
April 27–30, 2025
Denver, CO|The Westin Denver Downtown
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Technical Session|Sponsored by Fundamental Irradiation Damage
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Khalid Hattar
Alternate Chair:
Flyura Djurabekova (Univ. Helsinki)
Track Organizers:
Steve Zinkle (University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mitra Taheri (Johns Hopkins University)
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Investigating the Low-Energy Recoil Events in GaN
9:30–9:50AM CST
A.S. Hauck (Penn State), B.R. Tuttle (Penn State Behrend), M. Jin (Penn State)
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Investigation of Ion Irradiation Effects on Mineral Analogues of Concrete Aggregates
9:50–10:10AM CST
Zehui Qi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Steven John Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Yann Le Pape (ORNL), Elena Tajuelo Rodriguez (ORNL), Xin Chen (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Arnaud Bouissonnié (Univ. California, Los Angeles), Gaurav Sant (Univ. California, Los Angeles)
Determination of the Radiation Induced Athermal Diffusivity in Uranium Mononitride from an Integrated Approach
10:10–10:30AM CST
A. Schneider (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), J. Rizk (LANL), T. Matthews (LANL), M. Kosmidou (LANL), D. Andersson (LANL)
Cluster Dynamics Simulations of the Full Xenon-Vacancy-Interstitial Phase-Space in Irradiated UO2
10:30–10:50AM CST
S. Blondel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C. Matthews (LANL), M. Cooper (LANL), B. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), D. Andersson (LANL)
Self-Irradiation Effects During Alternative Cooling and Heating of δ-phase 239Pu-Ga Alloys
10:50–11:10AM CST
Alice I. Smith (LANL), F.J. Freibert (LANL), S.C. Vogel (LANL), J. Zhang (LANL), J.E. Siewenie (LANL), S. Richmond (LANL), M. Ramos (LANL)
Modeling Radiolysis Effects in FLiNaK and FLiBe Molten Fluoride Salt
11:10–11:30AM CST
A. Peterkin (MIT), H. Caralp (Brown Univ.), W. Zhou (MIT), M. Short (MIT)
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