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2016 Awardees

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Open Competition

Elizabeth Getto

Elizabeth Getto

First Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Michigan

Effect of Irradiation Mode on the Microstructure of Self-Ion Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Alloys

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Michael Reichenberger

Michael Reichenberger

Second Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Advances in the Development and Testing of Micro-Pocket Fission Detectors​

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Marc Paff

Marc Paff

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

Organic Liquid Scintillation Detectors for ON-The-Fly Neutron/Gamma Alarming and Radionuclide Identification in A Pedestrian Radiation Portal Monitor

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Marc Ruch

Second Place, ​Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy, University of Michigan

Pulse Shape Discrimination Performance of Stilbene Coupled to Low-Noise Silicon Photomultipliers​

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Marek Piechowicz

Marek Piechowicz

First Place, ​Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, University of Chicago

Form Development, University of Chicago Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of a Bifunctional Chelator with Ultrahigh Capacity for Uranium Uptake from Seawater Stimulant​

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Charles Cao

Charles Cao

Second Place, ​Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Rutgers University

Form Development, Rutgers University A Novel Approach towards Synthesis of Apatite Based Ceramic Waste Forms for Immobilization of Radioactive Iodine (129I)

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Daniel Mast

First Place, ​Nuclear Science and Engineering, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Equation of State for Technetium from X-Ray Diffraction and First-Principle Calculations​​

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Jaron Senecal

Jaron Senecal

Second Place, ​Nuclear Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic University

A Modified Tightly Couple Method for Reactor Transient Simulations​

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Rachel Pope

Rachel Pope

First Place, Used Fuel Dispose, Clemson University

Evaluation of Bentonite Engineered Barrier Performance Under Repository Conditions: Diffusion of Np(V) Through Montmorillonite

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2014 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Bradley Childs

Bradley Childs​​

University of Nevada at Las Vegas

The Nature of the Volatile Ternetium Species Formed During Vitrification of ​Borosilicate Glass​

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John Kiernicki

John Kiernicki

Purdue University​​ ​​

Reductive Silylation of Cp*UO2(MesPDIMe) ​ Promoted by Lewis Bases​

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Mario Gonzalez

Mario Gonzalez

University of Utah

Application of a One-Dimensional Transient Electrorefiner Model to Predict Partitioning of Plutonium from Curium in a Pyrochemical Spent Fuel Treatment Process

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Michael Servis

Michael Servis

Colorado School of Mines

A Molecular Dynamics Study of Tributyl Phosphate and Diamyl Amyl Phosphonate Self-Aggregation in Dodecane and Octane​

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Nicholas Luciano

Nicholas Luciano

University of Tennessee

Modeling and Simulation of an Operational VVER-1000 Benchmark with NESTLE​

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Undergraduate Competition

Hunter Andrews

​Hunter Andrews

Virginia Commonwealth University

Measurement and Analysis of Exchange Current Density of Lanthanides in LiCl-KCI Eutectic Salt​

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Hi Vo

Hi Vo

University of California at Berkeley

Small-Scale Mechanical Testing on Proton Beam-Irradiated 304 SS From Room Temperature to Reactor Operation Temperature​

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Jason Becker

Jason Becker

Purdue University

A Comparative Study of Single-pulse and Double-pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy with Uranium-containing Samples​

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