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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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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 Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Jian Gan (INL)
Track Organizers:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Alternate Chair:
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High-Resolution TEM Characterization of Neutron-Irradiated U-10Mo Fuel in the Low Temperature and Low Burnup Regime
10:00–10:20AM CST
Sukanya Majumder (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (Purdue), T.K. Yao (INL), Kaustubh K. Bawane (INL), Cameron Howard (INL), Kourtney D. Wright (INL), Laura Hawkins (INL), Brandon D. Miller (INL), Jonova Thomas (Purdue), Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), Maria A. Okuniewski (Purdue)
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Lower Length Scale Fuel Performance Modeling of U-Mo Fuel
10:20–10:40AM CST
Benjamin Beeler (NCSU), ATM Jahid Hasan (NCSU), Shenyang Hu (PNNL), Sourabh Kadambi (INL), Linu Malakkal (INL), Zhi-Gang Mei (ANL), Maria Okuniewski (Purdue), Gyuchul Park (ANL), Shipeng Shu (ANL), Bei Ye (ANL), Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Accelerated Fuel Qualification Using in situ Neutron Diffraction
10:40–11:00AM CST
E.G. Obbard (Univ. New South Wales), J.H. Stansby (Univ. New South Wales), V.K. Peterson (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), D. Adorno Lopes (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), P.A. Burr (Univ. New South Wales), J. Bevitt (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), A. Paradowska (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation), E.S. Sooby (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), J.T. White (LANL), P. Olsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Advancing Thermo-Physical Property Characterization Techniques and Methods for Irradiated Nuclear Fuels
11:00–11:20AM CST
T. R. Pavlov (INL)
Fission Accelerated Steady-State Testing Irradiations and Post Irradiation Examination
11:20–11:40AM CST
S. Patnaik (INL), G.L. Beausoleil (INL), L. Capriotti (INL)
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