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Innovations in Nuclear 2018 Winners

2018 Awardees

Open Competition 


Advanced Fuels
Stephen Taller First Place University of Michigan Multiple Ion Beam Irradiation for the Study of Radiation Damage in Materials	Kelsa Benensky Second Place University of Tennessee Knoxville Advanced Fuel Forms for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications


Advanced Reactor Systems
April Novak First Place University of California at Berkeley Pronghorn: A Porous Media Thermal-Hydraulics Core Simulator and its Validation with the SANA Experiments	Nolan Goth Second Place Texas A&M University Time-Resolved PIV/PTV Measurements on Interior Subchannels of a Wire-Wrapped 61-pin Hexagonal Fuel Bundle


Energy Policy
Brandon Chrisholm First Place Vanderbilt University Preliminary Risk Assessment of Generalized Molten Salt Reactor Off-Gas System	James Richards Second Place University of Idaho Assessing the Impact of Nuclear Retirements on the US Power Sector


Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy
Steven Czyz First Place Oregon State University A Prototype Detection System for Atmospheric Monitoring of Xenon Radioisotopes	Taylor Ochs Second Place Kansas State University Wearable Detector Device Utilizing Microstructured Semiconductor Neutron Detector Technology


Material Recovery and Waste Form Development
Riki Drout First Place Northwestern University Efficient Capture of Perrhenate and Pertechnetate by a Mesoporous Zr Metal-Organic Framework and Examination of Anion Binding Motifs	Rosendo Borjas Nevarez Second Place University of Nevada at Las Vegas Zirconium Tetrachloride Revisited


Nuclear Science and Engineering
Kathryn Peruski First Place Clemson University Mobility of Aqueous and Colloidal Neptunium Species in Field Lysimeter Experiments	Kurt Dominesey Second Place Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Preliminary Integration of MCNP6 and PROTEUS into the NEAMS Workbench


Used Fuel Disposition
Ezra Coughlin First Place Purdue University Neodymium(III) Complexes Capable of Multi-Electron Redox Chemistry	Jennifer Wacker Second Place Georgetown University Uranium(IV) Chloride Complexes: UCl₆^2- and an Unprecedented U(H₂O)₄Cl₄ Structural Unit

Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2016 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Hunter Andrews
Virginia Commonwealth University
Development of an Experimental Routine for
Electrochemical and Laser-Induced Breakdown S
pectroscopy Composition Measurements of LiCl-KCI
Eutectic Salts

Eric O'Quinn
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Inversion in Mg_1-xNi_xAl₂O₄ Spinel:
New Insight into Local Structure

Daniel Rutstrom
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Investigating New Activators for
Small-Bandgap LaX₃ (X=Br,I) Scintillators

Silvina Di Pietro
Florida International University
Ammonia Gas Treatment for Uranium
Immobilization at DOE Hanford Site

Htoo Paing
Clemson University
Conceptual Demonstration of Ambient Desorption-Optical
Emission Spectroscopy Using a Liquid Sampling-Atmospheric
Pressure Glow Discharge Microplasma Source

Undergraduate Competition

Justin Bresson
Virginia Commonwealth University
Half-life Estimation by Statistical Sampling

Gavin Ridley
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Introduction to Moltres: An Application for
Simulation of Moten Salt Reactors

Stephen King
Texas A&M University
Pressure Drop Measurements in a Versatile
Experimental Facility of Packed Spheres

Frances Zengotita
Florida International University
The Role of Chromohalobacter on Transport of
Lanthanides and Cesium n the Dolomite Mineral
System

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