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Walter Williams

Walter Williams

First Place, Advanced Fuels, Purdue University

In Situ Neutron Diffraction Study of Crystallographic Evolution and Thermal Expansion Coefficients in U-22.5 at %Zr During Annealing

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Steven Jepeal

Steven Jepeal

Second Place, Advanced Fuels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Intermediate Energy Proton Irradiation: Rapid, High-Fidelity Materials Testing for Fusion and Fission Energy Systems​

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Naiki Kaffezakis

Naiki Kaffezakis

First Place, Advanced Reactor Systems,  Georgia Institute of Technology

High Temperature Ultra-Small Modular Reactor: Pre-Conceptual Design

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Bodhi Biswas

Bodhi Biswas

Second Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Study of Terbulence-Induced Refraction of Lower Hybrid Waves using Synthetic Scrape-Off Layer Filaments​

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Matthew Durbin

Matthew Durbin

First Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, Penn State University

K-Nearest Neighbors Regressions for the Discrimination of Gamma Rays and Neutrons in Organic Scintillators

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Jacob Blevins

Jacob Blevins

Second Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, North Carolina State University

Enabling Ga2O3's Neutron Detection Capability with Boron Doping and Conversion Layer​

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Devon Drey

Devon Drey

Frist Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Disorder in Ho2Ti2-xZrxO7: Pyrochlore to Defect Fluorite SOlid Solution Series

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Hope Lackey

Hope Lackey

Second Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Washington State University

Reimagining pH Measurement: Utilizing Raman Spectroscopy for Enhanced Accuracy in Phosphoric Acid Systems​

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Gabriela Picayo

Gabriela Picayo

First Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

Characterization of the ALSEP Process at Equilibrium: Speciation and Stoichiometry of the Extracted Complex

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Osvaldo Ordonez

Osvaldo Ordonez

Second Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara

Synthesis and Characterization of Two Uranyl-Aryl “Ate" Complexes​

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Logan Breton

Logan Breton

First Place, Used Fuel Disposition, University of South Carolina

Facile Oxide to Chalcogenide Conversion for Actinides Using the Born-Chalcogen Mixture Method

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Jordan Stanberry

Jordan Stanberry

Second Place, Used Fuel Disposition, University of Central Florida

Oxidative Dissolution of TcO2 by Mn(III) Minerals under Anaerobic Conditions: Implications on Technetium-99 Remediation​

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2019 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Ashwin Rao

Ashwin Rao

Air Force Institute of Technology

Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques to Optimize the Analysis of Plutonium Surrogate Material via a Portable LIBS Device​

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Dimitris Killinger

Dimitris Killinger

Virginia Commonwealth University

Investigation of W, Ag, and Pt Quasi-Reference Electrode Stability in Molten NaCl-CaCl2 with Ce(0)/Ce(III) as an Internal Reference Redox Reaction​

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Edward Duchnowski

Edward Duchnowski

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Reactor Performance and Safety Characteristics of  Two-Phase Composite Moderator Concepts for Modular  High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors​

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James Foster

James Foster

Clemson University

Functionalized Polymer Thin Films for Plutonium Capture and Isotopic Screening from Aqueous Sources​

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Robert Kile

Robert Kile

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Transformational Challenge Reactor Analysis To Inform Preconceptual Core Design Decisions: Sensitivity study of Transient Analysis in a Hydride-Moderated Microreactor​

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Undergraduate Competition

Ashley Raster

Ashley Raster

Missouri University of Science and Technology

High Temperature Lead Cooled Fast Reactor for Advanced Drilling​

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Kaityn Barr

Kaitlyn Barr

University of Michigan

Verification of MPACT and VERA-CS for the APR1400 Benchmark

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Matthew Weiss

Matthew Weiss

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Effect of Natural Gamma Background Radiation on Portal Monitor Radioisotope Unmixing​

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Mete Bayrak

Mete Bayrak

University of Texas at Austin

An Online Neutron Activation Analysis Database (NAADB)

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Victoria Davis

Victoria Davis

Coastal Carolina University

Detecting Ionizing Radiation in Space with Memristor Device

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