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Innovations in Nuclear 2017 Winners

2017 Awardees

Open Competition


Advanced Fuels
Drew Johnson First Place University of Michigan Quantitative analysis of Localized Stresses in Irradiated Stainless Steels using High Resolution Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics Modeling	Troy Eckleberry Second Place University of Tennessee Reactivity Assessment of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Claddings in Modern PWR


Advanced Reactor Systems
David Frazer First Place University of California at Berkeley Degradation of HT9 under Simultaneous Ion Beam Irradiation and Liquid Metal Corrosion	Benjamin Magolan Second Place Massachusetts Institute of Technology Multiphase Turbulence Mechanisms Identification from Consistent Analysis of Direct Numerical Simulation Data

Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy

Cody Dennett
First Place
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bridging the Gap to Mesoscale Radiation
Materials Science with Transient Grating Spectroscopy

Adam Olsen
Second Place (tied)
University of Utah
Quantifying Morphological Features of α-U₃O₈
with Image Analysis for Nuclear Forensics

Adam Weltz
Second Place (tied)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Development of a Modular Directional and
Spectral Neutron Detection System Using
Solid-state Detectors


Material Recovery and Waste Form Development
Mitchell Friend Frist Place Washington State University Hafnium(IV) Complexation with Oxalate at Variable Temperatures	Kevin McCann Second Place Colorado School of Mines Hexavalent Americium Recovery Using Copper(III) Periodate


Nuclear Science and Engineering
Jason Richards First Place University of Nevada at Las Vegas Selective Partitioning of Ruthenium from Nitric Acid Media	Anna Baldwin Second Place Colorado School of Mines Tributyl Phosphate Aggregation in the Presence of Metals: An Assessment Using Diffusion NMR Spectroscopy


Used Fuel Disposition
Dawn Montgomery First Place Clemson University The Influence of Citrate and Oxalate on ⁹⁹Tc^VII, Cs, Np^V and U^VI Sorption to a Savannah River Site Soil	Alexander Creely Second Place Massachusetts Institute of Technology Validation of Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Simulations of L- and I-Mode Plasmas on Alcator C-Mod

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

Alexander Hagen
Purdue University
Detection of Special Nuclear Material in Cargo
using Continuous Neutron Interrogation and
Tension Metastable Fluid Detectors

Caleb Tatebe
Purdue University
[2π+2π] Cycloaddition of Isocyanates to
Uranium(IV) Imido Complexes for the Synthesis of
U(IV) _K²-Ureato Compounds

Justin Felder
University of South Carolina
Application of a Mild Hydrothermal Method to
the Synthesis of Mixed Transition-metal(II)/Uranium(IV) Fluorides

Patrick Skrodzki
Purdue University
Significance of Ambient Conditions in Uranium
Absorption and Emission Features of Laser Ablation Plasmas

Undergraduate Competition

Sarah Abraham
University of Michigan
An Efficient, Affordable Optically
Stimulated Luminescent (OSL) Annealer

Andrew Boria
University of Michigan
¹³⁷Cs Dosimeter Irradiation Facilities:
Calibration Frequency, Precision, and Accuracy

Michael Martin
University of California at Berkeley
Feasibility of a Breed-and-Burn
Molten Salt Reactor

Kyle Beyer
University of Michigan
Pulse Shape Discrimination Characterization of
Stilbene Detectors with Light Guide Coupling and
Silicon Photomultiplier Readout

Michael Hua
University of Michigan
Analytic Error Quantification for Generalized
Fast-Neutron Multiplicity Counting Equations