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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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Strontium: Supply-and-demand success for the DOE’s Isotope Program
The Department of Energy’s Isotope Program (DOE IP) announced last week that it would end its “active standby” capability for strontium-82 production about two decades after beginning production of the isotope for cardiac diagnostic imaging. The DOE IP is celebrating commercialization of the Sr-82 supply chain as “a success story for both industry and the DOE IP.” Now that the Sr-82 market is commercially viable, the DOE IP and its National Isotope Development Center can “reassign those dedicated radioisotope production capacities to other mission needs”—including Sr-89.
Technical Session|Sponsored by ETWDD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Julie Jacobson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Tyler Newitt (INL)
Session Organizer:
Andrew E. Thomas (INL)
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Electrochemical Studies of Actinides in Molten Salt and Aqueous Media in Support of Nuclear Material Management
10:00–10:20AM EST
Bethany Kersten (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Rohan Akolkar (Case Western Reserve Univ.), Christine E. Duval (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Paper
Analysis of Neutronic Parameters Using MCNP 6.2 for the Molten Salt Irradiation Facility at the PULSTAR Reactor
10:20–10:40AM EST
Matthew Schweitzer (NCSU), Ming Liu (NCSU), Austin Wells (NCSU), Nick Poole (NCSU), Nina Colby Fleming (NCSU), Ayman I. Hawari (NCSU)
Heat Transfer Performance of a Wire-Wrapped Sodium Fast Reactor Fuel Rod Simulator
10:40–11:00AM EST
Nicholas J. Thoreson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Mathieu Martin (TerraPower), Mark H. Anderson (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison)
Optical Basicity Determination of Molten Halide Salts
11:00–11:20AM EST
K. Buttice (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), A. Couet (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), R. Gakhar (INL)
Demonstration of Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in Molten Salts
11:20–11:40AM EST
Davis Bryars (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
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