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Innovations in Nuclear 2019 Winners

2019 Winners

Open Competition


Advanced Fuels
Kelly McCary First Place Ohio State University Response of Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors to High-Temperature Step Transients	William Cureton Second Place University of Tennessee at Knoxville Grain Size Effects on Irradiated CeO₂, ThO₂, and UO₂


Advanced Reactor Systems
Vedant Mehta First Place Georgia Institute of Technology Core Analysis of Spectral Shift Operated SmAHTR	Peter Doyle Second Place University of Tennessee at Knoxville Modeling the Impact of Radiation-enhanced Diffusion on Implanted Ion Profiles


Energy Policy
John Peterson First Place University of Idaho An Overview of Methodologies for Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessments Conducted in Nuclear Power Plants	Keoni Sanny Second Place Ohio State University Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment with PyCARSHOO: The Case of the Emergency Power Supply of a Nuclear Power Plant


Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy
Allison Lim First Place Colorado School of Mines Plastic Scintillators with Efficient Light Output and Pulse Shape Discrimination Produced via Photoinitiated Polymerization	Neil Taylor Second Place Ohio State University Isotopic Concentration of Uranium from Alpha Spectrum of Electrodeposited Source on 4H-SiC Detector at 500° C


Material Recovery and Waste Form Development
Kristen Pace First Place University of South Carolina Na₂(UO₂)(BO₃): An All-Uranium(V) Borate Synthesized under Mild Hydrothermal Conditions	Bonnie Klamm Second Place Florida State University Experimental and Theoretical Comparison of Transition-Metal and Actinide Tetravalent Schiff Base Coordination Complexes


Nuclear Science and Engineering
Erin Bertelsen First Place Colorado School of Mines Microcolumn Lanthanide Separation Using Bis-(2-ethylhexyl) Phosphoric Acid Functionalized Ordered Mesoporous Carbon Materials	Sylvia Hanna Second Place Northwestern University Guest-Dependent Single-Crystal Phase Transitions in a Two-Dimensional Uranyl-Based Metal-Organic Framework


Used Fuel Disposition
Christian Juillerat First Place University of South Carolina Overstepping Lowenstein's Rule- a Route to Unique Aluminophosphate Frameworks with 3D Salt-Inclusion and Ion Exchange Properties	Megan Hoover Second Place Clemson University Quantum-mechanical Modeling of Divalent Cation Incorporation into Uranium Dioxide

Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2017 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Alexander Chemey
Florida State University
Electronic, Magnetic, and Theoretical
Characterization of (NH₄)₄UF₈, a Simple Molecular
Uranium(IV) Fluoride

Cole Manring
North Carolina State University
Assessment of Thermal Neutron Scattering
in a Heavy Paraffinic Molecular Material

Chao Zhang
University of Utah
Electrochemical Measurement of High Concentrations
of UCl₃ and GdCl₃ in Molten LiCl-KCl Eutectic

David Dan
Florida State University
Origin of Selectivity of a Triazinyl Ligand for Americium(III)
over Neodymium(III)

Colby Sorrell
North Carolina State University
TREAT M2 Experiment Modeling for
Transient Benchmark Analysis

Undergraduate Competition

Daine Danielson
University of California at Davis
Directionally Accelerated Detection of a Second,
Unknown Reactor with Antineutrinos for Mid-Field
Nonproliferation Monitoring

Kevin Liu
University of Michigan
Calibration and Statistical Performance of Al₂O₃∶C
Optically Stimulated Luminescent Dosimeters with
and without Annealing using a ¹³⁷Cs Source

Travis Smith
University of Tennessee Knoxville
Temporal Fluctuations in Indoor Background
Gamma Radiation Using Nal(TI)

Benjamin Laramee
North Carolina State University
Load-Following Capabilities of the BWRX-300

James Seekamp
University of Michigan
Design of an Extremely Sensitive Large Volume
Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Environmental
Sample Screening

James Zillinger
University of Idaho
Investigation of Production Parameter Effects on
Spark Plasma Sintered Molybdenum Cermet Wafers
for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications