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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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GAO: Staffing problems continue to plague DOE-EM
A report by the Government Accountability Office has shown that the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management continues to face significant staffing shortages since the GAO first reported on the problem in 2024. This includes a shortage in workers considered critical to carrying out the office’s mission of cleaning up radioactive waste from decades of nuclear weapons production and research.
Technical Session|Condensed Matter Physics
Wednesday, September 11, 2024|4:20–5:40PM EDT|Gold Ballroom
Session Chair:
Eric D. Bauer
Alternate Chair:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Changes in Stiffness and Internal Friction of d-PuGa due to Aging and Annealing
4:20–4:40PM EDT
Boris Maiorov (LANL), C.A. Mizzi (LANL), T.T.J. Munroe (LANL), F.F. Balakirev (LANL), M.L. Hayne (LANL), M.J. Gibbs (LANL)
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Spin-Orbital-Polarized Density Functional Theory Approach to the Materials Physics of Pu Metal and its Alloy: Application
4:40–5:00PM EDT
Kyoung E. Kweon (LLNL), Per Soderlind (LLNL), Babak Sadigh (LLNL)
On the use of Strictly Localized Basis Orbitals for the Description of Elemental Plutonium, Plutonium-Gallium Alloys, and Plutonium Oxides
5:00–5:20PM EDT
Raymond Atta-Fynn (LANL), Sarah C. Hernandez (LANL), Roxanne M. Tutchton (LANL)
