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Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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NRC staff: “We’ve already made progress”—Part 2
It’s been a busy eight months, Mike King told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a recent hearing on the immediate and projected impacts of new federal legislation aimed at supporting the nation’s current nuclear energy renaissance.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Friday, December 3, 2021|8:00–9:45AM EST |Columbia 11
Session Chair:
Katie Mummah (Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Trevor Casper
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Scale-Up of the Zeolite-4A Occlusion Process for Radioactive Electrorefiner Salts
8:05–8:25AM EST
Claire Decker (Univ. of Utah), Allison Harward (Univ. of Utah), Guy Fredrickson (INL), Tae-Sic Yoo (INL), Jerry Howard (Univ. of Nevada, Reno), Michael Simpson (Univ. of Utah), Krista Carlson (Univ. of Nevada, Reno)
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A Method of Testing Methyl Iodide Adsorption onto Exchanged Silver Mordenite
8:25–8:45AM EST
Heinrik Goettsche (Univ. of Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
Adsorption of Radioactive Iodine Using Nanocarbon-Coated Ceramic Substrate
8:45–9:05AM EST
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. of Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho)
On Hydriding Uranium-Surrogate Aluminides
9:05–9:25AM EST
Collin T. Andersen (Univ. of Utah), Prabhat K. Tripathy (INL), Michael F. Simpson (Univ. of Utah)
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