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Student Competition Award Winners

Open Competition

Drew Johnson

First Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Michigan

Quantitative analysis of Localized Stresses in Irradiated Stainless Steels using High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics Modeling

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Troy Eckleberry

Second Place, Advanced Fuels, University of Tennessee

Reactivity Assessment of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Claddings in Modern PWR​

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David Frazer

First Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, University of California at Berkeley

Degradation of HT9 under Simultaneous Ion Beam Irradiation and Liquid Metal Corrosion

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Benjamin Magolan

Second Place, Advanced Reactor Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Multiphase Turbulence Mechanisms Identification from Consistent Analysis of Direct Numerical Simulation Data

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Cody Dennett

First Place, Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bridging the Gap to Mesoscale Radiation  Materials Science with Transient Grating Spectroscopy​​

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Adam Olsen

Second Place (tied), Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, University of Utah

​Quantifying Morphological Features of α-U3O8 with Image Analysis for Nuclear Forensics​

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Adam Weltz

Second Place (tied), Material, Protection, Control and Accountancy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Development of a Modular Directional and  Spectral Neutron Detection System Using  Solid-state Detectors​​

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Mitchell Friend

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

Hafnium(IV) Complexation with Oxalate at Variable Temperatures

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Kevin McCann

Second Place, Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, Colorado School of Mines

Hexavalent Americium Recovery Using Copper(III) Periodate​

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Jason Richards

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

Selective Partitioning of Ruthenium from Nitric Acid Media

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Anna Baldwin

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

Tributyl Phosphate Aggregation in the Presence of Metals: An Assessment Using Diffusion NMR Spectroscopy​

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Dawn Montgomery

First Place, Used Fuel Disposition, Clemson University

The Influence of Citrate and Oxalate on 99TcVII, Cs, NpV and UVI Sorption to a Savannah River Site Soil

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Alexander Creely

Second Place, Used Fuel Disposition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Validation of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of L- and I-Mode Plasmas on Alcator C-Mod​

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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2015 R&D Expenditures

​Adam Burak

University of Utah

Measurement of Solubility of Metalic  Lithium Dissolved in Molten LiCl-Li2O​​

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Alexander Hagen

Purdue University

Detection of Special Nuclear Material in Cargo using Continuous Neutron Interrogation and Tension Metastable Fluid Detectors​

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Caleb Tatebe

Purdue University

[2π+2π] Cycloaddition of Isocyanates to  Uranium(IV) Imido Complexes for the Synthesis of U(IV) K2​-Ureato Compounds​

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Justin Felder

University of South Carolina

Application of a Mild Hydrothermal Method to  the Synthesis of Mixed Transition-metal(II)/Uranium(IV) Fluorides​

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Patrick Skrodzki

Purdue University

Significance of Ambient Conditions in Uranium Absorption and Emission Features of Laser Ablation Plasmas​​

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Undergraduate Competition

Andrew Boria

University of Michigan

137Cs Dosimeter Irradiation Facilities:  Calibration Frequency, Precision, and Accuracy

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Kyle Beyer

University of Michigan

Pulse Shape Discrimination Characterization of Stilbene Detectors with Light Guide Coupling and Silicon Photomultiplier Readout​

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Michael Hua

University of Michigan

Analytic Error Quantification for Generalized  Fast-Neutron Multiplicity Counting Equations​​

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Michael Martin

University of California at Berkeley

Feasibility of a Breed-and-Burn Molten Salt Reactor​

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Sarah Abraham

University of Michigan

An Efficient, Affordable Optically  Stimulated Luminescent (OSL) Annealer​​

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