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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Educators learn about Oak Ridge’s nuclear career opportunities
Nearly 300 public school teachers, career counselors, and school administrators from 11 middle and high schools in the Oak Ridge region of Tennessee recently attended a nuclear opportunities workshop. The event was held to provide information about careers available for students in the years ahead related to the cleanup mission of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management.
Technical Session|Office of Nuclear Energy Funded Research (NEUP and UNLP Programs)
Saturday, April 5, 2025|9:00–10:20AM MDT|Gran Quivera 1
Session Chair:
Tyler D. Newitt (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Cece Bell
Session Organizer:
Ashley Machado
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Design and Analysis of Gas Sparging Mass Transfer Experiment for Molten Salt Applications
9:00–9:20AM MDT
Andrew Hutsell (Young Members Group), Ryan P. McGuire (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jeremy Lopez (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Experimental Investigation Regarding the Determination of Microbubble Geometry in Molten Salt Sparging Environments
9:20–9:40AM MDT
Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Andrew Hutsella (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Automating Spectroscopic Analysis of Lithium Isotopic Composition with Convolutional Neural Networks
9:40–10:00AM MDT
Jason P. Clifford (NCSU), Lauren A. Kohler (NCSU), Julianna M. White (NCSU), Nusrat Karim (NCSU), Elizabeth Kautz (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
Development of a Graphite Pebble Test Bed for Experimental Validation of Pebble Flow Simulations
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Ethan H. Nicolls (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Ming Fang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sohaib S. Malik (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Angela D. Fulvio (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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