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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 Integrated Phenomena in Reactor Materials
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|8:00–9:40AM CST|Galerie 5
Session Chair:
Yongfeng Zhang (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Andrew K. Hoffman (n/a)
Track Organizers:
Stu Maloy (PNNL)
Adrian Couet (University of Wisconsin- Madison)
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Rationalizing the Effects of Corrosion, Irradiation and Stresses on the Mechanical Performance of Structural Alloys Used Molten Salt Reactors
8:00–8:40AM CST
Laurent Capolungo (LANL), Xueyang Wu (LANL), Nathan Bieberdorf (Univ. California, Berkeley), Mark Asta (Univ. California, Berkeley), A. Rovinelli (LANL), M. Zecevic (LANL), R. Lebensohn (LANL)
Presented by David Andersson (LANL)
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4D-STEM Strain Mapping of Internal and External Strain-Induced Phase Transformations in Ni-based Alloy 625
8:40–9:00AM CST
Caleb Clement (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Yongwen Song (Penn State), Jim Ciston (LBNL), Colin Ophus (LBNL), Yang Yang (Penn State), Janelle Wharry (Purdue)
Effects of Porosity on Buffer Layer Fracture Mode
9:00–9:20AM CST
A.M. Masri (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Y. Zhang (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Rezwan (Sandia), C. Griesbach (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), R. Thevamaran (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), T. Gerczak (ORNL), W. Jiang (INL)
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