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Education, Training & Workforce Development
The Education, Training & Workforce Development Division provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the exchange of views and information on matters related to education, training and workforce development in nuclear and radiological science, engineering, and technology. Industry leaders, education and training professionals, and interested students work together through Society-sponsored meetings and publications, to enrich their professional development, to educate the general public, and to advance nuclear and radiological science and engineering.
Meeting Spotlight
2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
Standards Program
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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 Advanced/Novel Materials
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Janelle P. Wharry (Purdue Univeristy)
Track Organizers:
Kevin Field (Univ. Michigan)
Benjamin Sutton (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI))
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Effects of Ti and Si Additions on Precipitate Number Density and Radiation Resistance of Additively Manufactured Oxide Dispersion Strengthened FeCrAl
3:10–3:30PM CST
T. Siggillino (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), T.C. Austin (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), S.J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), C.P. Massey (ORNL)
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Hydrogen Embrittlement of Zircaloy-4 Fabricated by Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing
3:30–3:50PM CST
Y. Yan (ORNL), C.P. Massey (ORNL), B.E. Garrison (ORNL), S.A. Taller (ORNL), A.T. Nelson (ORNL)
Investigating the Structure-Property-Performance Relations of Cr Coatings for Zr Alloys
3:50–4:10PM CST
B.I. Aronson (Penn State), L.M. Erich (Penn State), M.J. Ammendola (Penn State), J. Hannon (Penn State), W.R. Tannehill (Penn State), M. Burton (Purdue), J.A. Reiss (Penn State), C.M. DeSalle (Penn State), P. Fourspring (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), B. Ensor (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), J. Clobes (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), K. Jenkins (Naval Nuclear Laboratory), D.E. Wolfe (Penn State)
Miniature Scale Creep Tests on Fuel Cladding Alloys Using a Novel Test System
4:10–4:30PM CST
L.M.A. Lima (NCSU), T. Hassan (NCSU), J. Eapen (NCSU), K.L. Murty (NCSU)
Effect of Neutron Irradiation and Heat Treatment on Hydrothermal and High-Temperature Corrosion Behavior of Additively Manufactured SiC Fibers
4:30–4:50PM CST
P. Cervenka (MIT), A. Seshadri (MIT), J. Pegna (Free Form Fiber), S. Harrison (Free Form Fiber), K. Shirvan (MIT)
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