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Innovations in Nuclear 2022 Winners

2022 Awardees

Open Competition


Advanced Fuels
Alejandro Figueroa First Place Purdue University An Iterative Estimation Approach to Simultaneously De-Curtain and De-Noise FIB Damaged Nuclear Fuel Microstructures	Neal Gaffin Second Place University of Tennessee at Knoxville Consolidation Behavior of Mo30W Alloy Using Spark Plasma Sintering


Advanced Reactor Systems
Matthew Krecicki First Place Georgia Institute of Technology Thermal Hydraulic Modeling of Solid Fueled Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactors Part I: Development and Verification	Timothy Kiefer Second Place North Carolina State University Control Rod Modeling in Liquid Metal-Cooled Fast Reactors


Energy Policy
Hannah Patenaude First Place University of Nevada at Las Vegas Topical Analysis of Nuclear Experts' Perceptions of Publics, Nuclear Energy, and Sustainable Futures	Megan Harkema Second Place Vanderbilt University The Dynamic Nature of Risk in DOE Facilities in the Surveillance and Maintenance Program- with Observations for Risk Communications


Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy
Nathan Giha First Place University of Michigan Organic Glass Scintillator Bars with Dual-Ended Readout	Emily Kwapis Second Place University of Florida Tracking of Individual TRISO-fueled Pebbles through the Application of X-ray Imagining and Depp Metric Learning


Material Recovery and Waste Form Development
Sylvia Hanna First Place Northwestern University Discovery of Spontaneous De-Interpenetration through Charged Point-Point Repulsions	Bethany Kersten Second Place Case Western Reserve University The Future of Nuclear Energy: Electrochemical Reprocessing of Fuel Takes Center Stage


Nuclear Science and Engineering
Julia Knapp First Place Northwestern University Electron Transitions in a Ce(III)- Catecholate Metal-Organic Framework	Peter Kowal Second Place Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A Programmatic Metamodel-Driven Modeling Paradigm for MCNP

Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2020 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

Tanner Hall
University of Utah
Computational and Experimental Optimization of
¹³⁵Xe Production in Calibration Sources

Bryant Kanies
North Carolina State University
Thermoluminescence and Optically Stimulated
Luminescence Response of AI₂O₃ Coatings Deposited
by Mist-Chemical Vapor Deposition

Tyler Williams
Brigham Young University
Review- Concentration Measurements in Molten
Chloride Salts Using Electrochemical Methods

Harry Jang
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Synthetic Diversity in the Preparation of Metallic Uranium

Alexandre Solomon
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Transformations to Amorphous and X-Type Phases in
Swift Heavy Ion-Irradiated Ln₂O₃ and Mn₂O₃

Undergraduate Competition

Loris Jautakas
University of Michigan
Comparison of Different Simple Circuit Designs for a
Raspberry Pi Based and Cell Phone Controlled Geiger-
Mueller Radiation Detection System

Andrew Kent
University of Michigan
Data Security Considerations for Networked and
Remote Stations in a Radiation and Weather
Monitoring System

Aiden Sable
University of Michigan
Realistic Implementation of Radiation Physics for a
Virtual Reality Game Programmed in Unity for an Oculus Quest

Thomas Kennings
University of Michigan
Radon-222 Charcoal Canister Steady State Model
Calibrations Performed in a Highly Controlled Environmental
Chamber and a Natural Indoor Environment

Caleb King
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Benefits of Chromium-Coated Zircaloy as Accident
Tolerant Nuclear Fuel Cladding: An Overview