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Reactor Physics
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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 FCWMD
Monday, November 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EST|Fairchild East/West
Session Chair:
Amanda Leong
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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)
Paper
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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