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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2025)
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 12, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Lincoln East
Session Chair:
Madeline Lockhart (UTK)
Alternate Chair:
Maggie Arno
Session Organizer:
Chris E. Robinson
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Status of the Down-Blending of Irradiated IGR Graphite Fuel in Kazakhstan
3:15–3:35PM EST
K. Bateman (INL), I. Bolshinsky (INL), W. Hintz (INL), E. Batyrbekov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic Kazakhstan), Ye. Koyanbayev (National Nuclear Center of the Republic Kazakhstan), Y. Baklanova (National Nuclear Center of the Republic Kazakhstan), A. Korovikov (National Nuclear Center of the Republic Kazakhstan)
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A Methodology Development for Proliferation Resistance Optimization of Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycle
3:35–3:55PM EST
S. S. Chirayath (ORNL), R. M. Chamberlin (LANL), K. K. Hogue (ORNL), J. M. Osborn (Sandia), S. E. Skutnik (ORNL), L. M. Crabtree (Sandia), N. T. Hubley (LANL), L. G. Evans (ORNL), J. P. Joshi (Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex), M. M. Arno (ORNL), M. Paul (Sandia), T. E. Hanlon (Y-12 Nat'l Security Complex), J. A. Johnson (ORNL)
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X-Ray Imaging and Computed Tomography for Nuclear Waste Classification
3:55–4:15PM EST
Bernadette E. Brezinski (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gomez W. Wright (ORNL), Paul B. Rose (ORNL), Jason P. Hayward (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Hands-On, Heads-Up: Blending Cyber T&E with Data Science-Driven Training in Jupyter Notebooks
4:15–4:35PM EST
Christopher Spirito (INL), Shannon Eggers (INL), Ethan Bauer (INL)
Presented by Ammon Williams (INL)
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