Poster Session I

Evaluation of Mo-99 Production in HALEU Targets Using Monte Carlo Methods

10:00–10:02AM CDT

Aaron Deaver (NCSU), Scott P. Palmtag (NCSU)

UAV-based Neutron-Gamma Radiation Detector

10:02–10:04AM CDT

Sarabdeep Dhingra (Univ. Michigan), Wyatt Buckbee (Univ. Michigan), Chase Abell (Univ. Michigan), David Breitenmoser (Univ. Michigan), Shaun D. Clarke (Univ. Michigan)

From Impurity to Asset: Security and Safeguards Implications of Isotopic Impurities in HALEU Produced from Reprocessed Uranium

10:04–10:06AM CDT

Eva M. Lisowski (Institute of Science Tokyo), Hiroshi Sagara (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Next-Generation Nuclear Material Accountancy for Advanced Reactor Systems

10:06–10:09AM CDT

Nuvin Bazid (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

Alternative Core Geometries for Pebble Bed Microreactors

10:09–10:10AM CDT

Ava R. Chambers (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Donald L. Doyle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

Evaluation and Optimization of Asymmetric Core Designs in NuScale SMR

10:10–10:11AM CDT

Elora Elbert (Oregon State), Fiorella Espinoza Del Rio (Oregon State), Allie Karsseboom (Oregon State), Kenneth A. Anderson (NuScale Power)

Optimization Study on the Fuel Cycle Length for Small PWR Concepts

10:11–10:12AM CDT

Cody Cline (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

Core Loading Analysis for a Westinghouse PWR

10:12–10:13AM CDT

Emmal Dashti (Penn State), Ulises G. Henriquez (Penn State), John Flaherty (Penn State), William Concannon (Penn State)

Thermal Characteristics Experiments of Tricarbide Fuel Surrogates for use in NTP

10:13–10:14AM CDT

Roman D. Galvan (TAMU), Abraham G. Haggerty (TAMU), Cable Kurwitz (TAMU), Adrian F. Silva (TAMU), Robert Waters (TAMU), Conrad Gerten (TAMU)

​​Exploratory Analysis of the Computational Needs for Designing Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems

10:14–10:17AM CDT

Hannah Lister (Georgia Tech), Antonio Gausditis (Georgia Tech), Connor Halloran (Georgia Tech)

Conceptual Design of a Plutonium-Based Fast Microreactor for Operation on the Lunar Surface

10:17–10:20AM CDT

Andrew Soto (Univ. Michigan), Jacob Walters (Univ. Michigan)

Preconceptual Study of a Hypothesized Deep Space Surface Mission Power Source

10:20–10:23AM CDT

Ethan M. Villarreal (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Blake Coghill (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jackson Place (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Joshua Piper (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

Radioisotope-Based Zero-Boil-Off System for Microgravity Cryogenic Tanks

10:23–10:25AM CDT

Madison Dixon (TAMU), Jake W. Godfrey (TAMU), Alexander Smith (TAMU), Kent Franke (TAMU)

Lessons from NERVA and Materials Constraints in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion

10:25–10:27AM CDT

Alex Rhee (Oregon State)

Characterizing a Radiation Detector for the Conditions of Space

10:27–10:29AM CDT

Shaffer H. Bauer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nathan Melkus (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Derek Park (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jess Rosencrans (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Benchmark of AGN-201M-103 to Validate HALEU Fuel Behavior in Computational Models

10:29–10:31AM CDT

Kyler J. Johnson (Idaho State), Charles J. Milloway (Idaho State), Angela Trejo (Idaho State)

An Evaluation and Comparison of U2Mo and U3Mo Thermal Neutron Scattering Cross Sections

10:31–10:33AM CDT

Cecilia J. Harrison (NCSU), Briana K. Laramee (NCSU), Colby Fleming (TAMU), Ayman I. Hawari (TAMU)

An Engineering and Economic Figure of Merit for Tritium Extractors

10:33–10:35AM CDT

Benjamin J. Li (Univ. California, Berkeley), Guan-yu Su (Univ. California, Berkeley)

Plasma-Assisted Upcycling of Methane to Methanol

10:35–10:37AM CDT

Logan Bailliez (NCSU), Joshua Cervenak (NCSU), Tom Regev (NCSU)

X-Ray Energy Deposition Effects on IFE First Wall

10:37–10:39AM CDT

Zane Eisenberg (TAMU), Carlo Fiorina (TAMU), Valeria Ospina (Focused Energy)

Signal Capture via Plasma Technology

10:39–10:41AM CDT

Daniel Goldman (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Victor Seyfritz (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Reactor-Relevant Evaluation of Tritium Retention Diagnostics in ITER-Scale Devices

10:41–10:43AM CDT

Charalampos Alexander Korfiatis (Florida Int'l Univ.), Jose Cosio (Florida Int'l Univ.), Deidra Hodges (Florida Int'l Univ.), Paulina Ramos (Florida Int'l Univ.), Diana Moreira (Florida Int'l Univ.), Fernando Lanzana Santoro (Florida Int'l Univ.), Jeff Guan (Florida Int'l Univ.), Samantha Blanco (Florida Int'l Univ.)

BUMS-Bonner sphere Unfolding Made Simple Modernized

10:43–10:45AM CDT

Angel Mercado (Georgia Tech), Lianna Arnold (Georgia Tech), Jeremy E. Sweezy (LANL), Scott Schwahn (ORNL), Shaheen A. Dewji (Georgia Tech)

Computational Method for Calculating the Radiative Protective Factor for Armored Vehicles

10:45–10:47AM CDT

Jonathan W. Clements (U.S. Military Academy), Jameson P. Connors (U.S. Military Academy), Travis Ehrenberg (U.S. Military Academy), Paolo Luevano (U.S. Military Academy)

Shutdown Dose Rates of Mobile Nuclear Power Plants

10:47–10:49AM CDT

John S. Gorczynski (U.S. Military Academy), Benjamin H. Nguyen (U.S. Military Academy), Andrew N. Burns (U.S. Military Academy), Lucas S. Adams (U.S. Military Academy), Micah X. Thomson (U.S. Military Academy), Richard L. Calvin (U.S. Military Academy)

Fast Neutron Spectroscopy at the Spallation Neutron Source

10:49–10:51AM CDT

Will Gardner (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katherine Parker-Repsher (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Daniel J. Metcalf (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Thomas Green (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

Underground Airflow Measurements for Exposure Risks at the WIPP Site

10:51–10:53AM CDT

Caedon A. Carrasco (New Mexico State)

Developing a Gemstone Dosimeter for Radiation Detection

10:53–10:55AM CDT

Tania Kumar (TAMU), Rhiya Narayandas (TAMU)

Dose Rate Sensitivity Analysis of the Oak Ridge Subcritical Assembly Using MAVRIC

10:55–10:57AM CDT

Karol Luis Dalumpines (TAMU), Walid A. Metwally (ORNL), Cihangir Celik (ORNL), Alexander Lang (ORNL), Alex Shaw (ORNL)

Material Analysis of Radiation Shielding Concrete using an Iron Aggregate

10:57–10:59AM CDT

Sofia Quader (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Furkan Erdogan (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

NucP&ID: AI-Assisted Nuclear P&IDs Digitization

10:59–11:01AM CDT

Kangda Wei (TAMU), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Jisuk Kim (INL), Brandon Biggs (INL), Zhegang Ma (INL), Steven Prescott (INL), Karen DSouza (INL), Ruihong Huang (TAMU)

ALHPANSO: Open-Source Modeling of (a,n) Source Terms

11:01–11:03AM CDT

Divit Rawal (Univ. California, Berkeley), Anthony Nelson (LLNL), William Zywiec (LLNL), Daniel Siefman (Univ. California, Berkeley)

A Neural Network to Monitor and Analyze Nuclear Energy Sentiment

11:03–11:05AM CDT

Wilson Brown (Purdue Univ.)

AI-Assisted Development of a System Thermal-Hydraulics Evaluation Model (Digital Twin) for an Advanced Sodium-Cooled SMR

11:05–11:07AM CDT

Joseph Polinski (NCSU), Chase V. Maier (NCSU), Killian Woods (NCSU)

Automated Parametric Studies for Reactor Designs Using Modular Python Scripts

11:07–11:09AM CDT

Mason S. Walls (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)

Graph Neural Network Super-Resolution of P-Coarsened CFD Simulations

11:09–11:11AM CDT

Vasil Ivakimov (Penn State), Guilherme Gottems (Penn State), Luiz C. Aldeia Machado (Penn State), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Mahmoud Q. Yaseen (Penn State), Dillon R. Shaver (ANL), Haomin Yuan (ANL), Jun Fang (ANL), Paul Fischer (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State), Ricardo Balin (ANL), Filippo Simini (ANL), Bethany Lusch (ANL), Venkatram Vishwanath (ANL), Ramesh Balakrishnan (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)

Continuous Optimization to Maximize Tritium Production for an Infinite Homogenous System

11:11–11:13AM CDT

Trevor A. Wakeland (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Andrew M. Holcomb (ORNL), Vladimir Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)

AI-Augmented Radiation Field Reconstruction via Minimal Drone Exploration

11:13–11:15AM CDT

Daniel Taheri (TAMU)

Clustering Algorithm for Particle Identification

11:15–11:17AM CDT

Munso Bwalya (Virginia State), Thomas Redpath (Virginia State)

Modelling and Experimental Validation of High-Fidelity Gamma Detectors in OpenMC

11:17–11:19AM CDT

Haider Nazir (Univ. Texas, Austin), Amanda L. Lund (ANL), Shayan Shahbazi (ANL), Derek Haas (Univ. Texas, Austin)

Automated Validation of OpenSn Using ICSBEP Concentric-Sphere Criticality Benchmarks

11:19–11:21AM CDT

Roger W. Wszolek (TAMU), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU)

Government Shutdowns and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Consequences and Solutions

11:21–11:23AM CDT

Rhys H. Davis (Oregon State)

RAD-AI: Embedded AI for Real-Time Radiation Safety Guidance

11:23–11:25AM CDT

Maxwell Mamishev (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

How Perceived Risk and Benefits from Nuclear Power Plants Translate into Support Across Demographics, Ideology, and Region in Illinois

11:25–11:28AM CDT

Matthew E. Salek (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jake Mitstifer (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), William R. Roy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Recruitment Strategies for Nuclear Engineering Education in High Schools

11:28–11:31AM CDT

Edwina B. Sesay (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Patience Obasi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)

Project R.A.D.I.U.S Senior Design Summary

11:31–11:33AM CDT

Alexa K. Strong (Oregon State), Ian Colvin (Oregon State), Elizabeth Falls (Oregon State), Kate Greene (Oregon State)

Effect of Boronization on Alloy 709 Wettability in Molten Salt Environments

11:33–11:36AM CDT

Brij B. Bhagat (Virginia Tech), Amanda S. Leong (Virginia Tech)

Evaluation of Potential Uses of LLMs to Assist in the Compilation of Reactor Data Sets based on Open Literature Resources

11:36–11:37AM CDT

Michael Parnell (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)

Open-Source Discrete Ordinates (SN) Code OpenSn for Fusion Design

11:37–11:57AM CDT

Anthony Kitamura (TAMU)

The Properties of Molybdenum as Encapsulation for Thulium Oxide in Nuclear Batteries

11:57–11:59AM CDT

Sean Smith (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brandon Shaver (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Caen Ang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)