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2022 Awardees

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Alejandro Figueroa

Alejandro Figueroa

First Place, Advanced Fuels, Purdue University

An Iterative Estimation Approach to Simultaneously De-Curtain and De-Noise FIB Damaged Nuclear Fuel Microstructures

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Neal Gaffin

Neal Gaffin

Second Place, Advances Fuels, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

University of Tennessee at Knoxville Consolidation Behavior of Mo30W Alloy Using Spark Plasma Sintering​​

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Matthew Krecicki

Matthew Krecicki

First Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology

Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of Solid Fueled Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors Part I: Development and Verification

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Timothy Kiefer

Timothy Kiefer

Second Place, Advanced Reactor, Systems, North Carolina State University

Control Rod Modeling in Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors​

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Hannah Patenaude

Hannah Patenaude

First Place, Energy Policy, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Topical Analysis of Nuclear Experts' Perceptions of Publics, Nuclear Energy, and Sustainable Futures

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Megan Harkema

Megan Harkema

Second Place, Energy Policy, Vanderbilt University

The Dynamic Nature of Risk in DOE Facilities in the Surveillance and Maintenance Program- with Observations for Risk Communications​

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Nathan Giha

Nathan Giha

First Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, University of Michigan

Organic Glass Scintillator Bars with Dual-Ended Readout

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Emily Kwapis

Emily Kwapis

Second Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, University of Florida

Tracking of Individual TRISO-fueled Pebbles through the Application of X-ray Imagining and Depp Metric Learning​

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Sylvia Hanna

Sylvia Hanna

First Place,​ Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Northwestern University

Discovery of Spontaneous De-Interpenetration through Charged Point-Point Repulsions

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Bethany Kersten

Bethany Kersten

Second Place, ​Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Case Western Reserve University

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Electrochemical Reprocessing of Fuel Takes Center Stage​

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Juila Knapp

Julia Knapp

First Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Electron Transitions in a Ce(III)- Catecholate Metal-Organic Framework

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Peter Kowal

Peter Kowal

Second Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A Programmatic Metamodel-Driven Modeling Paradigm for MCNP​

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2020 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Alexandre Solomon

Alexandre Solomon

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Transformations to Amorphous and X-Type Phases in Swift Heavy Ion-Irradiated Ln2O3 and Mn2O3​

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Bryant Kanies

Bryant Kanies

North Carolina State University

Thermoluminescence and Optically Stimulated Luminescence Response of AI2O3  Coatings Deposited  by Mist-Chemical Vapor Deposition​

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Harry Jang

University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Synthetic Diversity in the Preparation of Metallic Uranium

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Tanner Hall

Tanner Hall

University of Utah

Computational and Experimental Optimization of 135Xe Production in Calibration Sources

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Tyler Williams

Tyler Williams

Brigham Young University

Review- Concentration Measurements in Molten Chloride Salts Using Electrochemical Methods​

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Undergraduate Competition

Aiden Sable

Aiden Sable

University of Michigan

Realistic Implementation of Radiation Physics for a Virtual Reality Game Programmed in Unity for an Oculus Quest​

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Andrew Kent

Andrew Kent

University of Michigan

Data Security Considerations for Networked and Remote Stations in a Radiation and Weather Monitoring System​

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Caleb King

Caleb King

Virginia Commonwealth University

The Benefits of Chromium-Coated Zircaloy as Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel Cladding:  An Overview​

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Loris Jautakas

Loris Jautakas

University of Michigan

Comparison of Different Simple Circuit Designs for a Raspberry Pi Based and Cell Phone Controlled Geiger-Mueller Radiation Detection System​

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Thomas Kennings

Thomas Kennings

University of Michigan

Radon-222 Charcoal Canister Steady State Model Calibrations Performed in a Highly Controlled Environmental Chamber and a Natural Indoor Environment

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