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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Waste Management 2024: The symposia at 50
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Waste Management Symposia’s Waste Management Conference, held March 10–14 in Phoenix, Ariz. The event has grown significantly since the first Waste Management Conference in 1974, which attracted about 200 attendees. This year’s conference saw a record attendance of around 3,300 people from more than 20 different countries and boasted 235 technical sessions and 89 exhibitors.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|9:30–11:30AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
William F. Cureton (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Track Organizers:
Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
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Internal Restructuring of TRISO Fuel Layers During Irradiation
9:30–9:50AM CST
T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), C. Griesbach (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), D. Schappel (ORNL), J.D. Arregui-Mena (ORNL), R. Thevamaran (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
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Modeling of TRISO Coating Layer Fracture due to Buffer Debonding
9:50–10:10AM CST
Wen Jiang (NCSU), William F. Skerjanc (INL)
Micro-Mechanical Response of SiC-OPyC Layers in TRISO Fuel Particles
10:10–10:30AM CST
Katherine Montoya (ORNL), Erik Herbert (ORNL), Danny Schappel (ORNL), Tyler Gerczak (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Andrew Nelson (ORNL)
Thermomechanical Evaluation of Fracture Methods on TRISO Fuel Behavior
10:30–10:50AM CST
R.T. Sweet (INL), G. Singh (INL), J.A. Hirschhorn (INL), W. Jiang (INL)
Finite-Element-Based Thermomechanical Property Correlations for TRISO Fuels
10:50–11:10AM CST
Sam Heflin (LANL), Dan Kotlyar (Georgia Tech), Vedant Mehta (LANL), Holly Trellue (LANL)
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Anisotropy of Pyrocarbon Layers in Irradiated TRISO Fuel
11:10–11:30AM CST
W.F. Cureton (ORNL), T.J. Gerczak (ORNL), G.W. Helmreich (ORNL), D.J. Skitt (ORNL), J.D. Hunn (ORNL)
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