Awards

Track	Award	Paper	Author(s)	Affiliation	Division Sponsor
Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning	Best Presentation	Improving Confidence in Computational Methods for Helium Transmutation Calculations	Alexander Birmingham, Justin Hamil, and Kevin G. Field	the University of Michigan	Mathematics and Computation Division
Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning	Best Paper	Computational Error Field Validation Experiments on HIDRA	Arnav Goyal, Steven Gula, Nina Mihajlov, and Daniel Edward Andruczyk	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Mathematics and Computation Division
Fuel Cycles, Waste Management, and Decommissioning	Best Poster	Online Processing System for Molten Salt Reactors	Nathan Glaser, David Barnett, and Joseph Francis Specht	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division
Fuel Cycles, Waste Management, and Decommissioning	Best Undergraduate Presentation	Streamlined Analysis of Neutron Emission from Pebble Fuels	Holden Walker, Braden Goddard	Virginia Commonwealth University	Robotics and Remote Systems Division
Fuel Cycles, Waste Management, and Decommissioning	Best Graduate Presentation	Innovative Approaches to Uranium Mining Site Remediation: The Role of Biocrusts	Kaitlin Marry	Oregon State University	Robotics and Remote Systems Division
Fuel Cycles, Waste Management, and Decommissioning	Best Paper	Innovative Approaches to Uranium Mining Site Remediation: The Role of Biocrusts	Kaitlin Marry	Oregon State University	Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division
Fusion and Plasma Physics	Best Presentation	Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates	Adam Rousseau, Mohan Sankaran, Souvik Bhattacharya, and Matthew Confer	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	N/A
Fusion and Plasma Physics	Best Paper	Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates	Adam Rousseau, Mohan Sankaran, Souvik Bhattacharya, and Matthew Confer	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	N/A
Instrumentation, Control Systems, and Cyber Security	Best Presentation	A Comparative Analysis of Students and Trained Operators' Mental Workload in the Testing of Thermal Power Dispatch Concept of Operations	Olugbenga Gideon, Roger Lew, Benjamin K. Barton, and Thomas A. Ulrich	the University of Idaho and the Idaho National Laboratory	Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls Division
Instrumentation, Control Systems, and Cyber Security	Best Paper	Thimble Plug Handling Tool - Senior Design Project	Benjamin Beall Passyn, Sean Robert Wiger, Brett Scalco, Moody Awad, and Jordan Amarchih	Virginia Tech	Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls Division
Isotope Production	Best Presentation	0D Heat Exchange Modelling of Sample Holder for Production of 211-A	James Vulcanoff, Alexander Coxe, Skye Thurston, and Lane B. Carasik	Virginia Commonwealth University	Isotopes and Radiation Division
Isotope Production	Best Paper	Identification of U and Th Surrogates and Their Chemical Characteristics for Chromatographic Separation	Shams Al Azzawi, Braden Goddard, Jessika V. Rojas, and Mahmoud Khatab	Virginia Commonwealth University	Isotopes and Radiation Division
Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards	Best Poster	Generating Gamma-ray Spectra for use in a Machine Learning Model to Differentiate HALEU & HEU	Aristidis Loumis-Demetrakopoulos	Virginia Commonwealth University	Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division
Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards	Best Presentation	Application of a Triple Bubbler Inside Molten Salt for Pyroprocessing Safeguards Purposes	Christopher Gundersen, Ammon N. Williams, and Janine Lambert	Idaho State University and the Idaho National Laboratory	Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division
Nonproliferation, Security, and Safeguards	Best Paper	Spectral Feature Selection Approaches for Weapons Grade Plutonium Classification with GADRAS-DRF	Tanner Heatherly, and Camille Palmer	Oregon State University	Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division
Nuclear Criticality Safety	Best Presentation	Real-Time Neutron Source Localization Using the NoMAD Detector and Random Forest Regression	Natalie Lauren Cannon, Nicholas William Thompson, Jesson D. Hutchinson, Steven R. Biegalski, Anna S. Erickson, and Mark Smith-Nelson	the Georgia Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory	Nuclear Criticality Safety Division
Nuclear Criticality Safety	Best Paper	Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly	Alessandro Ingegno, Daniel J. Siefman, and William J. Zywiec	University of California, Berkeley	Nuclear Criticality Safety Division
Nuclear Education and Advocacy	Best Presentation	Comparing Internal Dosimetric Quantities Used for Management of Occupational Exposures	Aidan Barrett Barker, and Nicole E. Martinez	Clemson University	Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division
Nuclear Education and Advocacy	Best Paper	Recent Growth in the Establishment of ANS Student Sections	John Mobley	the University of Michigan	Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division
Nuclear Fuels and Materials	Best Presentation	Quantifying Amorphous Fractions Using Different Characterization Techniques	Will Gardner, Cale Carlton Overstreet, Maik Lang	the University of Tennessee, Knoxville	Materials Science and Technology Division
Nuclear Fuels and Materials	Best Paper	Effects of Gamma Radiation on Potential Organic Coolants for Nuclear Reactors	Sarah Driscoll, Arunkumar Seshadri, and Koroush Shirvan	Vanderbilt University and MIT	Materials Science and Technology Division
Nuclear Technology in Society and Policy	Best Presentation	The Price of Tomorrow: Making Sense of SMRs vs. Solar Economics	Daniel Rodriguez, Supathorn Phongikaroon, Oleg Korenok, and Ruben Glover	Virginia Commonwealth University	N/A
Nuclear Technology in Society and Policy	Best Paper	The Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosions	Matthew Stephen Cox, and Rhys Harold Davis	Oregon State University	N/A
Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability	Best Poster	Senior Design: A Carbon-Capture Assisted Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor for U.S. Deployment	Sam McDonald, Nitika Purohit, and Krystian Szeliga	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Nuclear Installations Safety Division
Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability	Best Undergraduate Presentation	Testing Coupling of the TRANSFORM Library to Julia	Bailey Emerson-Betti, Scott Greenwood, Vineet Kumar	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Operations and Power Division
Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability	Best Graduate Presentation	McSLAP Coupling to SIMULATE5 and PRESTO-2 for the Calculation of Dryout Safety Limits	Pierluigi Tagliabue, Giorgio Malavasi	ETH Zurich and Axpo Power AG	Operations and Power Division
Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability	Best Paper	Qualification of SIMULATE-5K for Stability Analysis of BWRs	Giovanni Ronchi, and Abdelhamid Dokhane	ETH Zurich and Axpo Power AG	Nuclear Installations Safety Division
Radiation Detection and Imaging	Best Presentation	3D Compton Imaging and Multisource Identification of Radioisotopes for an Integrated CZT Detector and Robot	Jacob T. Cooper, Bella Greenman, Joseph Brown, and Kaixin Xue	the University of Michigan	N/A
Radiation Detection and Imaging	Best Paper	Additive Manufacturing and Characterization of Polyvinyl Toluene Radiation Detectors	Andrzej Jakub Korlacki, Professor Peter Joyce, LCDR Joseph Latta, and Professor Megan Mohadjer Beromi	the United States Naval Academy	N/A
Radiation Protection and Medical Physics	Best Presentation	MCNP6.3-computed Neutron DCC in ICRP145 MRCPs	Ursula Skiff Wise, and Stephen McHale	the United States Naval Academy	Accelerator Applications Division
Radiation Protection and Medical Physics	Best Paper	Non-Destructive Analysis of a Commercial Rubber-Based Shielding Composite	Nuvin Bazid, Furkan Erdogan, Carlos Blank, Jessika V. Rojas, and Braden Goddard	Virginia Commonwealth University	Accelerator Applications Division
Reactor Physics	Best Presentation	Fuel Characterization of a Novel MSR Design	Mickey Bresnahan, and Andrew Hummel	the Georgia Institute of Technology	Reactor Physics Division
Reactor Physics	Best Paper	High Flux Isotope Reactor Analyses Using Modeling and Simulation For Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Conversion	Madison Gohlke, and Carol Sizemore	Texas A&M University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Reactor Physics Division
Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion	Best Presentation	Do Low Radioactivity Space Nuclear Systems Need a Complete Safety Analysis Review?	Ana Laura Villicaña	Georgetown University	Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology Division
Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion	Best Paper	Do Low Radioactivity Space Nuclear Systems Need a Complete Safety Analysis Review?	Ana Laura Villicaña	Georgetown University	Aerospace Nuclear Science & Technology Division
Thermal Hydraulics	Best Poster	Shrike: Minor Loss Analysis to Support Validation of Computational Models	Floren Rubio, Griffen Latimer, and Elora Elbert	Oregon State University and Kairos Power	Thermal Hydraulics Division
Thermal Hydraulics	Best Presentation	CFD Analyses of the Flow Mixing and Stratification in Pool Type SFR	Keenan Robert Kresl-Hotz, Mohamed S. El-Genk, and Timothy M. Schriener	the University of New Mexico	Thermal Hydraulics Division
Thermal Hydraulics	Best Presentation	High-Fidelity Simulation of Buoyancy-Driven Flows and Conjugate Heat Transfer in Fusion Reactor Systems Using the Spectral Element Method	Logan Joseph Hiland, Tri Nguyen, and Elia Merzari	Pennsylvania State University, University of Leeds, and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Agency	Thermal Hydraulics Division
Thermal Hydraulics	Best Paper	Simulations of External Flow Around Twisted Elliptical Tubes for Above Unity Prandtl Numbers and Low to Moderate Reynolds Numbers	Sierra Tutwiler, Dillon R. Shaver, and Lane B. Carasik	Virginia Commonwealth University	Thermal Hydraulics Division
Overall	Overall Best Undergraduate Presentation	Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Boron Nitride Films on Arbitrary Substrates	Adam Rousseau, Mohan Sankaran, Souvik Bhattacharya, and Matthew Confer	the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	N/A
Overall	Overall Best Graduate Presentation	Improving Confidence in Computational Methods for Helium Transmutation Calculations	Alexander Birmingham, Justin Hamil, and Kevin G. Field	the University of Michigan	N/A
Overall	Overall Best Paper	Simulated Pulsed Neutron Experiments of the Inherently Safe Subcritical Assembly	Alessandro Ingegno, Daniel J. Siefman, and William J. Zywiec	the University of California, Berkeley	N/A
Overall	Overall Best Poster	Innovative Moderator Concepts for Thermal-Spectrum Molten Salt Reactors	Carly Ellen Evans, Ethan Zagotta, and Joaquin Quezada	the University of Michigan	N/A

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