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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nominations open for CNTA awards
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness is accepting nominations for its Fred C. Davison Distinguished Scientist Award and its Nuclear Service Award. Nominations for both awards must be submitted by August 1.
The awards will be presented this fall as part of the CNTA’s annual Edward Teller Lecture event.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Advanced/Novel Materials
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Kevin G. Field (Univ. Michigan)
Track Organizers:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Grace Burke (INL)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
Alternate Chair:
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A Path Forward for Regulatory Acceptance of Combined Ion/Neutron Irradiation Data for Qualification
10:00–10:20AM CST
Stephen Taller (ORNL), Yiren Chen (ANL), Wei-Ying Chen (ANL), Rongjie Song (INL), Andrea Jokisaari (INL)
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Ashby Maps for Nuclear Applications: New Opportunities for Nuclear Materials Design
10:20–10:40AM CST
M.I. Brand (Univ. New South Wales), M. Moschetti (Univ. New South Wales), P. Hosemann (Univ. California, Berkeley), J.J. Kruzic (Univ. New South Wales), E.G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales), B. Gludovatz (Univ. New South Wales), P.A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales)
Design of Experiments for Qualifying Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processed Stainless Steel Components
10:40–11:00AM CST
Holden Hyer (ORNL), Josh Kendall (ORNL), David Collins (ORNL), Amir Ziabari (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL)
Effect of Carbon Concentration on the Creep Resistance and Tensile Properties of Castable Nanostructured Alloys
11:00–11:20AM CST
Emily Proehl (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Ying Yang (ORNL), Lizhen Tan (ORNL), Steven Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Radiation Tolerance of MX-Type Precipitates in Ferritic Martensitic Steels
11:20–11:40AM CST
K.G. Field (Univ. Michigan), T.M.K. Green (Univ. Michigan), K. Sun (Univ. Michigan), Robert Renfrow (Univ. Michigan), T. Graening (ORNL), W. Zhong (ORNL), E. Polselli (Univ. Michigan), L. Tan (ORNL), Y. Yang (ORNL)
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