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2020 Awardees

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Innovations in Nuclear Energy Research & Development Student Competition ​

Open Competition

Rigel Hanbury

Rigel Hanbury

First Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Michigan

Oxide Growth and Dissolution on 316L Stainless Steel During Irradiation in High Temperature Water

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Jacob Gorton

Jacob Gorton

Second Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Reactor Performance and Safety Characteristics of ThN-UN Fuel Concepts in a PWR​

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Samuel McAlpine

Samuel McAlpine

First Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Corrosion of Commercial Alloys in FLiNaK Molten Salt Containing EuF3 and Simulant Fission Product Additives

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Garland Porter

Garland Porter

Second Place, Advanced Reactor System, Texas A&M University

Surface Pressure Measurements in a Model Helical Coil Steam Generator Using Pressure Sensitive Paint​

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Paul Stockett

Paul Stockett

First Place, Energy Policy, Purdue University

Nonproliferation in the New Space Age: Where Do We Stand?

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Lee Maccarone

Lee Maccarone

Second Place, Energy Policy, University of Pittsburgh

Toward a Game-Theoretic Metric for Nuclear Power Plant Security​

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Daniel Rutstrom

Daniel Rutstrom

First Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Europium Concentration Effects on Scintillation Properties of Cs4SrI6:Eu and Cs4CaI6:Eu Single Crystals for Use in Gamma Spectroscopy

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William Steinberger

William Steinberger

Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, University of Pittsburgh

Imaging Special Nuclear Material Using a Handheld Dual Particle Imager​

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James Louis-Jean

James Louis-Jean

First Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Preparation and Characterization of Benzotriazolium Perrhenate

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Julia Knapp

Julia Knapp

Second Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Northwestern University

Single Crystal Structure and Photocatalytic Behavior of Grafted Uranyl on the Zr-Node of a Pyrene-Based Metal-organic Framework​

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Selena Staun

Selena Staun

First Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering​, University of California

Use of 15N NMR Spectroscopy to Probe Covalency in a Thorium Nitride

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Nina Colby Fleming

Nina Colby Fleming

Second Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University

Engineering, North Carolina State University Structure-Dependent Doppler Broadening Using a Generalized Thermal Scattering Law​

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Sydney Holdampf

Sydney Holdampf

First Place, Used Fuel Disposition, Colorado School of Mines

Electrophoretic Separations of Lanthanum and Gadolinium for Used Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

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Samuel Karcher

Samuel Karcher

Second Place, Used Fuel Disposition, Washington State University

Oxidation and Anion Lattice Defect Signatures of Hypostoichiometric Lanthanide-doped UO2​

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2018 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Alexa Hanson

Alexa Hanson

University of Utah

Quantifying Impurity Effects on the Surface  Morphology of α-U3O8​

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Alexander Wheeler

Alexander Wheeler

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Plutonium Diversion Effect on Molten-Salt Reactor Dynamics

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Ember Sikorski

Ember Sikorski

Boise State University

First-principles Comparative Study of UN and Zr Corrosion​

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Mikaela Pyrch

Mikaela Pyrch

University of Iowa

Exploring Crown-Ether Functionalization on the Stabilization of Hexavalent Neptunium​

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Richard Hernandez

Richard Hernandez

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Review of Pool Boiling Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and Heater Rod Design for CHF Experiments in TREAT​

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Undergraduate Competition

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Coral Kazaroff

Georgia Institute of Technology

Economic Benefits of Higher Enriched Assays for 24-Month Cycle Length

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Jack Thiesen

Jack Thiesen

University of Michigan

Preliminary Demonstration of a Method of Radiation Dosimetry using Passive, Integrating LiF:Mg, Ti Thermoluminescent Dosimeters​

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Jordan Noey

Jordan Noey

University of Michigan

The Effects of Radiation and Emitted Light Transport on the Positional Response of 11 cm x 42.5 cam x 5.5 cm Nal(TI) Detectors​

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Kaelee Novich

Kaelee Novich

Boise State University

Synthesis of Boron Carbide Reinforced Aluminum Alloys through Mechanical Stir Casting​

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Kaylee Cunningham

Kaylee Cunningham

University of Florida

Modeling the IFR-1 Metal Fuel Experiment in Bison through the NEAMS Workbench​​

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