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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|Metallurgy and Materials Science
Thursday, September 12, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Gold Ballroom
Session Chair:
Benoit Oudot
Alternate Chair:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF): Overview and Context
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Timothy Brown (Savannah River Site)
Paper
Natural Recovery in Delta Plutonium Alloys
11:30–11:50AM EDT
Clarissa A. Yablinsky (LANL), Tomas A. Martinez (LANL), Todd P. Martinez (LANL), Zachary S. Levin (LANL)
Evaluation of Mechanically Induced δ to αʹ Phase Transformation in Pu-Ga Alloy
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Jacqueline I. Royer (PNNL), Matthew T. Athon (PNNL), Matthew J. Olszta (PNNL), Dallas D. Reilly (PNNL), Dallin J. Barton (PNNL), Scott H. Swenson (PNNL), Strother J. Cooper (PNNL)
Correlating Microstructure to the Thermal Conductivity of Irradiated U-19Pu-10Zr Fuel
12:10–12:30PM EDT
Allison Probert (Univ. Florida), Ethan Hisle (INL), Mitchell Mika (Univ. Florida), Mary Sevart (Univ. Florida), Matthew Goodson (INL), Rafael Garcia (INL), Luca Capriotti (INL), Cynthia Adkins (INL), Assel Aitkaliyeva (Univ. Florida)