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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Radfest at Argonne kicks off ANS Annual Conference
The day before the 2025 ANS Annual Conference officially began in Chicago, the air was abuzz with the crackle of Geiger counters at Argonne National Laboratory in neighboring Lemont, Ill., where about 100 visitors from across the country attended an outreach and education event hosted by the American Nuclear Society.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Monday, November 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Canaveral 2
Session Chair:
Michael Tonks (University of Florida)
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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UZrCN Formation via Arc Melting -- A Novel Synthesis Study
1:00–1:20PM EST
David Sanches (INL), James Zillinger (INL), Sarah Hamilton (INL)
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Molten Salt Synthesis of Transition Metal and Lanthanide Nitride Surrogates for Actinide Nitride Fuels
1:20–1:40PM EST
Victoria Augustine (Oregon State), Devin McGlamery (Oregon State), Esteban Espinoza (Oregon State), Alexander Chemey (Oregon State)
Molten Salt Synthesis of Functional Carbide Materials
1:40–2:00PM EST
Devin McGlamery (Oregon State), Victoria Augustine (Oregon State), Esteban Espinoza (Oregon State), Alexander Chemey (Oregon State)
RoM Thermal Property Development for NTP Advanced Carbides in Bison
2:00–2:20PM EST
Jeremy D. Smith (Univ. Florida), Jhonathan Rosales (Marshall Space Flight Center), Michael R. Tonks (Univ. Florida)
Method for Estimating Uranium Mass in High-Level Radioactive Debris Using Gamma Spectroscopy
2:20–2:40PM EST
Dagistan Sahin (NIST Center for Neutron Research), H. Heather Chen-Mayer (NIST), Bryan Remley (NIST Center for Neutron Research), Osman S. Celikten (Univ. Maryland), Anil Gurgen (Univ. Maryland)
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