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Innovations in Nuclear 2023 Winners

2023 Awardees

Open Competition


Fuel Cycle Technologies
Claire Griesbach Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison First Place Microstructural heterogeneity of the buffer layer of TRISO nuclear fuel particles	Kyle Quillin University of Wisconsin-Madison Second Place Microstructural and nanomechanical studies of PVD Cr coatings on SiC for LWR fuel cladding applications


Nucelar Engineering
Adam Dix Purdue University First Place A novel friction factor for wire-wrapped rod bundles	Jonathan Crozier North Carolina State University Second Place Thermal Scattering Law for Structure-Dependent-Doppler Broadening in FLASSH


Reactor Development
Katelyn Wada Boise State University First Place Transient multilayer analytical model of a line heat source probe for in-pile thermal conductivity measurements	Grayson Gall North Carolina State University Second Place Measurement of a radial flow profile with eddy current flow meters and deep neural networks


Spent Fuel Disposition
Jarom Chamberlain University of Utah First Place Development of a scalable method to chlorinate UO2 to UCl3 using ZrCl4	Travis Deason University of South Carolina Second Place Developing Waste Forms for Transuranic Elements:Quaternary Neptunium Fluorides of the Type NaxMNp6F30 (M = Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe,Co, Ni, Al, Ga)

Competition for Graduate Students Attending Minority Serving Institutions or Belonging to an Underserved Community



Ezgi Gursel University of Tennessee, Knoxville Using artificial intelligence to detect human errors in nuclear power plants: A casein operation and maintenance Ilana Szlamkowicz University of Central Florida Transformations and speciation of iodine in the environment as a result of oxidation by manganese minerals Adam Mallette University of Houston The effect of metals on zeolite crystallization kinetics with relevance to nuclear waste glass corrosion	Bethany Kersten Case Western Reserve University Synthesis of americium trichloride via chlorination of americium oxide using zirconium tetrachloride in LiCl–KCl molten salt Theresa Mary Green University of Michigan Effect of N2- and CO2-containing shielding gases on composition modification and carbonitride precipitation in wire arc additive manufactured grade 91 steel

Undergraduate Competition



Kalyn Fuelling University of Michigan Effect of Temperature on the Solubility of Metallic Magnesium in Molten MgCl2-KCl-NaCl