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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Ukrainian nuclear innovator competition winners announced
For the second consecutive year, the Ukrainian Nuclear Society (UkrNS) held its Nuclear Innovators competition, was organized in partnership with ANS and other leading institutions in the nuclear sector worldwide. The two winners were announced on May 7.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Monday, December 11, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Pierre-Clement A. Simon (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Jian Gan (INL)
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Fracture Behavior Analysis of UO2 Nuclear Fuel Using a Ball-on-Ring Biaxial Flexure Test
3:10–3:30PM CST
Adrianna E. Lupercio (Boise State), Cayden Doyle (Boise State), Andrew T. Nelson (ORNL), Brian J. Jaques (Boise State)
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An Empirical Model for Fractional High Burnup Structure in UO2 Fuel
3:30–3:50PM CST
W.C. Brinkley (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), N. Capps (ORNL), B.D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
The Transient Behavior of the Porous UO2 Pellets with Submicron Grain Size Under LOCA and RIA Thermal Shock Testing
3:50–4:10PM CST
Dong Zhao (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Andre Broussard (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Kevin Yan (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Heng Ban (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Multiphysics and Multiscale Modeling of High Burnup UO2
4:10–4:30PM CST
Karim Ahmed (TAMU)
Analysis of Future Fuel/Cladding Systems for Light Water Reactor Use
4:30–4:50PM CST
Inez Beverly Solomon (Univ. Manchester), Joel Turner (Univ. Manchester), Robert Harrision (Univ. Manchester)
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