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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Supreme Court declines to hear case involving St. Louis contamination
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday declined to hear an appeal from General Atomics subsidiary Cotter Corporation and Commonwealth Edison, an Exelon company, in a case over alleged radioactive contamination in the St. Louis, Mo., area, leaving in place an 8th Circuit Court ruling that allows the plaintiffs’ state-law tort claims to proceed under the federal Price-Anderson Act.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Nuclear Fuel Cycles
Wednesday, December 13, 2023|10:00–11:40AM CST|Galerie 6
Session Chair:
Adam Burak (Univ. Michigan)
Alternate Chair:
Sarah C. Finkeldei (Univ. California, Irvine)
Track Organizers:
Jie Lian (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Yong Yang (Univ. Florida)
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High Temperature Structures, Oxidation, and Thermodynamics of Uranium Nitride and Uranium Carbide
10:00–10:40AM CST
Xiaofeng Guo (Washington State), Vitaliy Goncharov (Washington State), Juejing Liu (Washington State), Arjen van Veelen (LANL), Emma Carlsen (Washington State), Sam Karcher (Washington State), John McCloy (Washington State), Hongwu Xu (LANL), Joshua White (LANL)
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Irradiation-Enhanced Diffusion in Advanced Ceramic Nuclear Fuels
10:40–11:20AM CST
M.W.D. Cooper (LANL), A. Schneider (LANL), C. Matthews (LANL), V. Kocevski (LANL), J. Rizk (LANL), D.A. Andersson (LANL)
Contact Angle of Molten Fluoride Salts on Graphite: A Parametric Study
11:20–11:40AM CST
L. Vergari (Univ. California, Berkeley), Z. Falkowski (Univ. California, Berkeley), M. Dennis (Univ. California, Berkeley), R. O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley)
