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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Call for 2026 ANS Special Award suggestions
With this year’s awards already presented at the American Nuclear Society Annual Conference in June, the ANS Honors and Awards (H&A) Committee has set its sights on planning for next year’s distinctions. To that end, the H&A Committee is now soliciting suggested topics for the 2026 Special Award.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuels and Actinide Materials
Thursday, December 14, 2023|3:10–4:50PM CST|Galerie 3
Session Chair:
Elizabeth S. Sooby (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Alternate Chair:
Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)
Track Organizers:
Jian Gan (INL)
Michael Tonks (Univ. Florida)
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Thermodynamic Assessment of NaF-KF-UF4 for Molten Salt Reactor Design
3:10–3:30PM CST
L. Voigt (Seaborg Technologies), M. Fache (JRC European Commission), J. Ocadiz Flores (Delft Univ. Technology), L. Ruszczynski (Delft Univ. Technology), J.T.M. Amphlett (Seaborg Technologies), A.L. Smith (Delft Univ. Technology), O. Beneš (JRC European Commission)
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Accelerated Isothermal MiniFuel Irradiations Using Liquid Metal Encapsulation
3:30–3:50PM CST
Zane Wallen (ORNL), Ryan Gallagher (Kairos Power), Kara Godsey (ORNL), Annabelle Le Coq (ORNL), Christian Petrie (ORNL), Caleb Massey (ORNL), Richard Howard (ORNL), Jorge Navarro (ORNL), Jim Nash (ORNL)
Atomic Scale Investigation of the Effect of Americium on the Properties of Nuclear Oxide Fuels
3:50–4:10PM CST
B. Labonne (CEA), C. Gueneau (CEA), M. Bertolus (CEA)
Correlating Atomic Structure with Elastic Properties in Non-Textured Pyrocarbon
4:10–4:30PM CST
Raphaelle David (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Yongfeng Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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