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Student Competition Award Winners

Open Competition

William Cureton

Second Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Grain Size Effects on Irradiated CeO2, ThO2, and UO2​

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Kelly McCary

First Place, Advanced Fuels, Ohio State University

Response of Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors to High-Temperature Step Transients

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Vedant Mehta

First Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Institute of Technology Core Analysis of Spectral Shift Operated SmAHTR

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Peter Doyle

Second Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Modeling the Impact of Radiation-enhanced Diffusion on Implanted Ion Profiles​

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John Peterson

First Place, Energy Policy, University of Idaho

An Overview of Methodologies for Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessments Conducted in Nuclear Power Plants

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Keoni Sanny

Second Place, Energy Policy, Ohio State University

Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment with PyCARSHOO: The Case of the Emergency Power Supply of a Nuclear Power Plant​

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Allison Lim

First Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, Colorado School of Mines

Plastic Scintillators with Efficient Light Output and Pulse Shape Discrimination Produced via Photoinitiated Polymerization

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Neil Taylor

Second Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, Ohio State University

Isotopic Concentration of Uranium from Alpha Spectrum of Electrodeposited Source on 4H-SiC Detector at 500° C​

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Kristen Pace

First Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, University of South Carolina

Na2(UO2)(BO3): An All-Uranium(V) Borate Synthesized under Mild Hydrothermal Conditions

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Bonnie Klamm

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

Experimental and Theoretical Comparison of Transition-Metal and Actinide Tetravalent Schiff Base Coordination Complexes​

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Erin Bertelsen

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

Microcolumn Lanthanide Separation Using Bis-(2-ethylhexyl) Phosphoric Acid Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials

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Sylvia Hanna

Second Place, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Guest-Dependent Single-Crystal Phase Transitions in a Two-Dimensional Uranyl-Based Metal-Organic Framework​

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Christian Juillerat

First Place, Used Fuel Disposition, University of South Carolina

Overstepping Lowenstein's Rule- a Route to Unique Aluminophosphate Frameworks with 3D Salt-Inclusion and Ion Exchange Properties

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Megan Hoover

Second Place, Used Fuel Disposition, Clemson University

Quantum-mechanical Modeling of Divalent Cation Incorporation into Uranium Dioxide​

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2017 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Alexander Chemey

Florida State University

Electronic, Magnetic, and Theoretical  Characterization of (NH4)4UF8, a Simple Molecular Uranium(IV) Fluoride

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Chao Zhang

University of Utah

Electrochemical Measurement of High Concentrations of UCl3 and GdCl3 in Molten LiCl-KCl Eutectic

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Cole Manring

North Carolina State University

Assessment of Thermal Neutron Scattering in a Heavy Paraffinic Molecular Material​

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Colby Sorrell

North Carolina State University

TREAT M2 Experiment Modeling for  Transient Benchmark Analysis​​

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David Dan

Florida State University

Origin of Selectivity of a Triazinyl Ligand for Americium(III) over Neodymium(III)​

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Undergraduate Competition

Benjamin Laramee

North Carolina State University

Load-Following Capabilities of the BWRX-300

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Daine Danielson

University of California at Davis

Directionally Accelerated Detection of a Second, Unknown Reactor with Antineutrinos for Mid-Field  Nonproliferation Monitoring​

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James Seekamp

University of Michigan

Design of an Extremely Sensitive Large Volume Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Environmental Sample Screening​

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James Zillinger

University of Idaho

Investigation of Production Parameter Effects on Spark Plasma Sintered Molybdenum Cermet Wafers for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications​​

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Travis Smith

University of Tennessee Knoxville

Temporal Fluctuations in Indoor Background Gamma Radiation Using Nal(TI)​

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Kevin Liu

University of Michigan

Calibration and Statistical Performance of Al2O3∶C Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeters with and without Annealing using a 137Cs Source

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