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Skip Navigation LinksInnovations in Nuclear 2016 Winners

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2016 Awardees

Open Competition

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​Advanced Fuels​

Elizabeth Getto
First Place
University of Michigan
Effect of Irradiation Mode on the Microstructure
 of Self-Ion Irradiated Ferritic-Martensitic Alloys
Michael Reichenberger
Second Place
Kansas State University
Advances in the Development and Testing
of Micro-Pocket Fission Detectors​


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​Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy​

Marc Paff
First Place
University of Michigan
Organic Liquid Scintillation Detectors for
ON-The-Fly Neutron/Gamma Alarming and
Radionuclide Identification in A Pedestrian
Radiation Portal Monitor
Marc Ruch
Second Place
University of Michigan
Pulse Shape Discrimination Performance of
Stilbene Coupled to Low-Noise Silicon
Photomultipliers​

 

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​Material Recovery and Waste Form Development​

Marek Piechowicz
First Place
University of Chicago
Design, Synthesis, and Characterization
of a Bifunctional Chelator with Ultrahigh
Capacity for Uranium Uptake from Seawater
Stimulant​
Charles Cao
Second Place
Rutgers University
A Novel Approach towards Synthesis of
 Apatite Based Ceramic Waste Forms for
 Immobilization of Radioactive Iodine (129I)


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​Nuclear Science and Engineering​

 

Daniel Mast
First Place
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Equation of State for Technetium from X-Ray
Diffraction and First-Principle Calculations​​​

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Jaron Senecal
Second Place
Rensselaer Polytechnic University
A Modified Tightly Couple Method
for Reactor Transient Simulations​​

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​Used Fuel Disposition​

Rachel Pope
First Place
Clemson University
Evaluation of Bentonite Engineered Barrier
Performance Under Repository Conditions:
Diffusion of Np(V) Through Montmorillonite		 
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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2014 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

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Bradley Childs​​
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
The Nature of the Volatile Ternetium
Species Formed During Vitrification of
​Borosilicate Glass​​

 

John Kiernicki
Purdue University​​ ​ ​
Reductive Silylation of Cp*UO2(MesPDIMe) ​
Promoted by Lewis Bases​

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Michael Servis
Colorado School of Mines
A Molecular Dynamics Study of Tributyl 
Phosphate and Diamyl Amyl Phosphonate 
Self-Aggregation in Dodecane and Octane​
Mario Gonzalez
University of Utah
Application of a One-Dimensional Transient
Electrorefiner Model to Predict Partitioning of
Plutonium from Curium in a Pyrochemical Spent
Fuel Treatment Process
 

Nicholas Luciano
University of Tennessee
Modeling and Simulation of an Operational
VVER-1000 Benchmark with NESTLE​
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Undergraduate Competition

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​Hunter Andrews
Virginia Commonwealth University
Measurement and Analysis of Exchange 
Current Density of Lanthanides in LiCl-KCI 
Eutectic Salt​
 

Hi Vo
University of California at Berkeley
Small-Scale Mechanical Testing on Proton
Beam-Irradiated 304 SS From Room 
Temperature to Reactor Operation Temperature​


Jason Becker
Purdue University
A Comparative Study of Single-pulse and
Double-pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown
Spectroscopy with Uranium-containing Samples​

 

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