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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Sellafield awards $3.86B in infrastructure contracts to three companies
Sellafield Ltd., the site license company overseeing the decommissioning of the U.K.’s Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, England, announced the award of £2.9 billion (about $3.86 billion) in infrastructure support contracts to the companies of Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and HOCHTIEF (UK) Construction.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Tuesday, December 12, 2023|1:00–2:40PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Luca Capriotti (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Jian Gan (INL)
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Effects of Lanthanides on Phase Distribution in As-Cast Unirradiated U-Pu-Zr Metallic Fuel
1:00–1:20PM CST
M. Mika (Univ. Florida), A. Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Paper
Stability and Diffusion of Lanthanide Fission Products in HCP Zirconium Revealed by Density Functional Theory Calculations
1:20–1:40PM CST
Shehab Shousha (NCSU), Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), Maria Okuniewski (Purdue)
In-situ TEM Studies of Microstructural and Phase Evolution in Metallic Fuel Alloys
1:40–2:00PM CST
Fidelma G. Di Lemma (INL), S. Vajayan (Michigan Tech Univ.), D. Salvato (INL), K.D. Wright (INL), L.R. Hawkins (INL), K.K. Bawane (INL), L. Capriotti (INL), T. Yao (INL)
Localized Composition of Constituent Redistribution Regions in a Neutron Irradiated U-10wt.%Zr Fuel
2:00–2:20PM CST
N. Rodriguez Perez (Purdue), J. Thomas (Purdue), M.A. Okuniewski (Purdue)
Correlating Constituent Redistribution and Fission Gas Bubble Structures in Irradiated U-Zr Fuels
2:20–2:40PM CST
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida), Mitch Mika (Univ. Florida), Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Fei Xu (INL), Tiankai Yao (INL), Luca Capriotti (INL)
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