Student Competition Award Winners

Awards of Excellence

Joshua Dunbar

Fuel Cycle Technologies, Colorado School of Mines

Influence of Di-n-butyl Phosphoric Acid on Cerium Redox and Speciation in Tri-n-butyl Phosphate

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Mario Gonzalez

Spent Fuel Disposition, University of Utah

Reactive Fe anode for electrolytic reduction of solid metal oxide in molten LiCl-Li2O

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Lauren Fortier

Reactor Development and Plant Optimization, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Autonomous Operations for Advanced Reactors Utilizing Supervisory Control

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Jonathan Crozier

Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University

Embedding Neural Thermal Scattering (NeTS) Modules in SERPENT for Higher Fidelity Advanced Reactor Analysis

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​Special Recognition

Tyler Williams

Fuel Cycle Technologies, Brigham Young University

Electrochemical Identification of Metal Chlorides in Eutectic LiCl-KCl Without Prior Knowledge of Analyte Identities

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Mason Fox

Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Reactivity-initiated accidents in two pressurized water reactor high burnup core designs

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Kyra Lawson

Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Development of Two-Step Method for Fast Chloride MSR Neutronics

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Forest Felling

Fuel Cycle Technologies, University of Utah

Application of Cyclic Voltammetry with W Electrodes for Measurement of High CaO Concentration in Molten CaCl2

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Undergraduate Award

Katie Vu

Energy Policy and Social Sciences, University of Michigan

Sentiment analysis of the United States public support of nuclear power on social media using large language models

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Nicolas Fox

Reactor Development and Plant Optimization, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Parametric Study of Quenching Behavior of 316L Stainless Steel and ZIRLO Tubes in Simulated LOCA Reflood Conditions

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Cole Hayne

Flexible Energy Systems, Georgia Southern University

Modeling of a novel elastohydrodynamic seal for sco2 power cycles with experimental verification

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Jonathan Dromey

Fuel Cycle Technologies, University of Utah

Modeling Separation of Actinides from Fission Products in a Zone Refining Process of Metallic Fuel Rods

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Lauren Kohler

Reactor Development and Plant Optimization, North Carolina State University

Bayesian Calibration of Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing in Water

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David Russell

Fuel Cycle Technologies, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Remote Sensing of Nitric Acid and Temperature via Design of Experiments, Chemometrics, and Raman Spectroscopy

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NEUP – Nuclear Energy University Program