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2014 Winners

Open Competition

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​Advanced Fuels	​
Kale Stephenson First Place University of Michigan Crack Initiation Behavior of Neutron Irradiated Model and Commercial Stainless Steels in High Temperature Water​	Daniel Walter Second Place University of Michigan High Fidelity Simulation of Crud Deposition on a PWR Fuel Cell with Spacer Grids over a 500 Day Depletion Cycle​

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​Energy Policy	​
Timothy Ault First Place Vanderbilt University Potential Synergy: The Thorium Fuel Cycle and Rare Earths Processing​	Matthew Gidden Second Place University of Wisconsin at Madison An Agent-Based Framework for Fuel Cycle Simulation with Recycling​

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Materials Protection, Control, and Accountancy	​
Alexis Kaplan First Place University of Michigan EJ-309 Pulse Shape Discrimination Performance with a High Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Ration and Low Threshold​	Troy Unruh Second Place Idaho State University In-core Flux Sensor Evaluations at the ATR Critical Facility​

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​Nuclear Science and Engineering	​
Andrew Pavlou First Place Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute High Fidelity Simulation on Crud Deposition on a  PWR Fuel Cell with Spacer Grids over a 500 Day Depletion Cycle​	Jonathan Walsh Second Place Massachusetts Institute of Technology Accelerated Sampling of the Free Gas Resonance Elastic Scattering Kernel​

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​Separations and Waste Forms	​
Carter Abney First Place University of Chicago Highly Porous and Stable Metal-organic Frameworks for Uranium Extraction​	T. Gannon Parker Second Place Florida State University Ionothermal and Hydrothermal Flux Syntheses of Five New Uranyl Phosphonates​

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​Used Fuel Disposition	​
Alex Salazar First Place University of California at Berkeley Effect of Temperature on Permeability of Cement Sealant for Deep Borehole Repositories​	Hilary Emerson Second Place Clemson University Geochemical Controls of Iodine Uptake and Transport in Savannah River Site Subsurface Sediments​
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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 20011 R&D Expenditures

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Devin Rappleye University of Utah A Method for Monitoring Depositions at a Solid Cathode in an Electrorefiner for a Two-Species System Using Electrode Potentials​   Danil Smiles University of California at Santa Barbara Synthesis of Uranium-Ligand Multiple Bonds by Cleavage of a Trityl Protecting Group​   Ammon Williams Virginia Commonwealth University Synthesis of Uranium-Lingand Multiple Bonds by Cleavage of a Trityl Protecting Group​	Catherine Riddle University of Nevada at Las Vegas Characterization of Bismuthate Oxidized Americium (V, VI) in Acidic Solution using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy​   Matthew Swenson Boise State University Correlation between the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Irradiated Fe-9Cr ODS​
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Undergraduate Competition

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​ David Harding University of Texas at Austin Improving Inert Matrix Fuel Burnup Using a Linear Model​   Timothy Smith University of Texas at Austin Comparison of Actinide Production in Traveling Wave and Pressurized Water Reactors​	Michael Perlin Oregon State University Options for a Sustainable MOX Fuel Cycle in PWRs for Rapid Utilization of Recycled Plutonium​​