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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Nuclear fuel cycle reimagined: Powering the next frontiers from nuclear waste
In the fall of 2023, a small Zeno Power team accomplished a major feat: they demonstrated the first strontium-90 heat source in decades—and the first-ever by a commercial company.
Zeno Power worked with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to fabricate and validate this Z1 heat source design at the lab’s Radiochemical Processing Laboratory. The Z1 demonstration heralded renewed interest in developing radioisotope power system (RPS) technology. In early 2025, the heat source was disassembled, and the Sr-90 was returned to the U.S. Department of Energy for continued use.
Panel and Technical Session|Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Friday, April 14, 2023|3:10–4:30PM EDT|Student Union 262B
Session Chair:
Katie Karl (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Jonathan Norman (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Advanced Manufacturing to Investigate SiC Matrix TRISO Crack Propagation in Future Reactors
3:10–3:30PM EDT
Spencer T. Doran (Oregon State), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State)
Paper
Effects of High-Temperature Excursions and Water Quenching on Zr-702
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Victoria Davis (ANL), Caleb T. King (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Christian England (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos E. Castano (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessika V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Gamma Irradiation of Injection Molded Polymers
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Sidney A. Hall-Smith (US Naval Academy), Elizabeth Getto (US Naval Academy), Peter Joyce (US Naval Academy)
High-Throughput Study for Examining Void Swelling Behavior in Ion Irradiated SS304
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Bao-Phong H. Nguyen (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Adrien Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
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