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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Monday, November 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
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Electrode Materials for Uranium Electroanalytical Chemistry in Molten Chloride Salts
3:15–3:35PM EST
Hannah K. Patenaude (LANL), Charles R. Lhermitte (LANL), Kenneth R. Czerwinski (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Cory A. Rusinek (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Marisa J. Monreal (LANL)
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Future Salt Irradiations for Fission and Fusion Systems
3:35–3:55PM EST
Charles Forsberg (MIT)
Excess Criticality Mitigation for Pebble Bed Reactor Fuels by Pebble Displacement and Replacement
3:55–4:15PM EST
Jonathan Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gordon M. Petersen (INL), Robert A. Joseph (INL)
Plasma Bubble Spectroscopy: A Method for Material Quantification of Molten Salts
4:15–4:35PM EST
Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
Na-22 for Safeguarding and Mass Accounting of Molten Salt Systems
4:35–4:55PM EST
Matthew Van Zile (Ohio State), Andrew Kauffman (Ohio State), Kevin Herminghuysen (Ohio State), Shelly Li (Univ. Utah), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah), Praneeth Kandlakunta (Ohio State), Guoping Cao (INL), Lei R. Cao (Ohio State)
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