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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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The current status of heat pipe R&D
Idaho National Laboratory under the Department of Energy–sponsored Microreactor Program recently conducted a comprehensive phenomena identification and ranking table (PIRT) exercise aimed at advancing heat pipe technology for microreactor applications.
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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