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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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Argonne scientists use AI to detect hidden defects in stainless steel
Imagine you’re constructing a bridge or designing an airplane, and everything appears flawless on the outside. However, microscopic flaws beneath the surface could weaken the entire structure over time.
These hidden defects can be difficult to detect with traditional inspection methods, but a new technology developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is changing that. Using artificial intelligence and advanced imaging techniques, researchers have developed a method to reveal these tiny flaws before they become critical problems.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MSTD
Tuesday, November 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM EST|Canaveral 2
Session Chair:
Stephen Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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Optimizing the ATF-2Ramp Power Profile
10:00–10:20AM EST
Travis Labossiere-Hickman (INL), Brian Durtschi (INL), David Kamerman (INL)
Paper
A Data-Driven Framework for Modeling Strength Surface in Complete Theory of Phase-Field Fracture
10:20–10:40AM EST
K.M. Zaheen Nasir (NCSU), Wen Jiang (NCSU)
Segmentation of Microscopic Defects in Pulsed Infrared Thermography Images of Metals
10:40–11:00AM EST
Jordan Stone (Univ. Texas, San Antonio), Xin Zhang (ANL), Alexander Heifetz (ANL)
Primary Damage Cascade Simulations in Tungsten Using the Allegro Machine Learning Interatomic Potential
11:00–11:20AM EST
Danna Jia (MIT), Myles Stapelberg (MIT), Michael Short (MIT)
Creep Analysis of Piping Component Structures in Nuclear Reactors with Machine Learning
11:20–11:40AM EST
Ugur Cotul (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.)
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