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Materials in Nuclear Energy Systems (MiNES 2023)
December 10–14, 2023
New Orleans, LA|New Orleans Marriott
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DOE prepares for transition of Savannah River Site management
Personnel from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management and the National Nuclear Security Administration recently gathered to discuss plans for the upcoming transfer of landlord responsibility for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ANSTD
Friday, December 3, 2021|10:00–11:45AM EST |Columbia 1
Session Chair:
Jeffrey C. King (Colorado School of Mines)
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Alternate Chair:
Richard Howard (INL)
Student Assistant:
Caitlin Martin
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Geant4 Modeling of Energy and Charge Deposition in Satellites Solar Cells
10:05–10:25AM EST
Youssef Abouhussien (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Gennady Miloshevsky (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Chargeable Atomic Batteries: Commercial Radioisotope Power Systems for Challenging Terrestrial and Space Applications
10:25–10:45AM EST
C. G. Morrison (USNC - Tech), D. J. Turkoglu (USNC-Tech), S. Yue (USNC-Tech)
Fusion Power Balance of VIPER Pulsed Fusion Rocket
10:45–11:05AM EST
Rohan Puri (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), George H. Miley (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Erik P. Ziehm (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Raul Patino (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Raad Najam (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Modelling Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Startup Transients
11:05–11:25AM EST
Noah Higgins (INL), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Stefano Terlizzi (INL), Ching-Sheng Lin (INL), Vincent Laboure (INL), Mark DeHart (INL)
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