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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
Technical Session|Environmental Chemistry
Tuesday, September 10, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Dawn Montgomery (Clemson Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Influence of Temperature on Plutonium, Thorium, and Uranium Sorption to Iron Oxide Minerals
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Brian A. Powell (Clemson Univ.), Yu Xie (Clemson Univ.), Shanna L. Estes (Clemson Univ.), Salome Kwong-Moses (Clemson Univ.), Connor Parker (ORNL), Fanny M. Coutelot (Clemson Univ.)
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Theoretical Study of Electronic Structure of Pu(III-VI) Aqua Ions Using M4,5-Edge Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering and High-Energy Resolution Spectroscopies
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Harry Ramanantoanina (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Sven Schenk (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Cedric Reitz (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), David Fellhauer (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Ruwini Ekanayake (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Hanna Kaufmann-Heimeshoff (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Xiaobin Zhang (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Tim Prüssmann (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Tonya Vitova (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
An Atomic Scale Computational Approach to Understanding Actinide Incorporation into Goethite (a-FeOOH)
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Corinne Hatton (Univ. Manchester), Louise Natrajan (Univ. Manchester), Samuel Shaw (Univ. Manchester), Nikolas Kaltsoyannis (Univ. Manchester)
Investigation of Geochemical Interactions of Plutonium with Opalinus Clay via TOF-SIMS and rL-SNMS
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Christopher Sirleaf (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Felix Berg (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Markus Breckheimer (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz), Tobias Reich (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz)
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