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Conference
Announcements
December 4-9,
2005
12th International Conference on Fusion
Reactor Materials (ICFRM)
Santa Barbara, CA
http://icfrm-12.pnl.gov/
Abstract submittal deadline has
passed.
March 12-16,
2006
2006 TMS Annual Meeting
San Antonio, TX
http://www.tms.org/
Symposium on Space Reactor Fuels
and Materials
Abstracts due July 15, 2005
Call for Papers attached
June 4-8, 2006
ANS Annual Meeting
Reno, NV
http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=n
Embedded Topical Meeting:
Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next Generation
Nuclear Reactors
Embedded Topical Meeting: ICAPP’ 06
http://www.ans.org/goto/icapp06/
July 9 - 13,
2006
Plutonium Futures - The Science Conference
Monterey, CA
http://www-cms.llnl.gov/pu2006/
November
12-16, 2006
ANS Winter Meeting
Albuquerque, NM
http://www.ans.org/meetings/index.cgi?c=n
Embedded Topical Meeting on
Atomistic Modeling in Nuclear Fuel Systems
Nuclear Fuels and Structural
Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
Embedded Topical – 2006 Annual Meeting, Reno, NV
Link
found at:
http://www.ans.org/meetings/docs/2006/nfsmngnr06-cfp.pdf
Summaries
are due January 6, 2006 for screening. Full-length papers will be due at the
meeting and will be published in a special edition of Journal of Nuclear
Materials (JNM). The meeting will
include invited talks. The format
will be one single session with a large poster session one evening (perhaps
more than one if needed). Help is
needed of MSTD members to review summaries and later to review full-length
papers as guest editors for JNM.
Volunteers should contact Todd Allen at allen@engr.wisc.edu.
MSTD Luncheon at 2005 Winter
Meeting in Washington, DC
An MSTD
luncheon was held on Wednesday of the 2005 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC. Attendees included: Seated (L to R): Ron
Ballinger, Hannah Yount, Doug Crawford, Standing
(L to R): Jim Stubbins, Sean McDeavitt,
Kenan Unlu, Todd Allen,
Travis W. Knight, Ken Geelhood.
An
awards luncheon will be held at the 2006 Winter Meeting in Albuquerque, NM.
New Sessions for Winter Meeting 2005,
Albuquerque, NM
Two sessions are
planned for the 2005 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC on Fuels and
Materials for Gas Cooled Reactors and Fuel Performance Modeling in Fuels
and Materials. Jim Cole will be organizing the sessions on Gas-cooled
reactors while Ron Ballinger will be organizing the sessions on fuel
modeling.
Thanks to Organizers of Sessions for
Winter Meeting 2004 in Washington, DC
MSTD supported two
sessions at the 2004 Winter meeting, titled Advances in Materials Testing
and Analysis and Development and Testing of Fuels for Advanced Reactors.
Thanks to John Lambert and Robert Hanrahan for organizing the sessions.
MSTD Awards Ceremony
At the 2004 Winter
meeting, MSTD held an Honors & Awards ceremony. Awards were presented
for significant accomplishments over the time period 2000-2003.
Outstanding achievement
Awards were presented to
Arden Bement
Everett Bloom
Jack Carpenter
Gary Was
for outstanding achievement over their careers.
A Special Achievement Award was presented to Ron Klueh for his book with
Don Harries on the properties of irradiated ferritic-martensitic steels.
For outstanding papers presented at ANS meetings, Significant Contribution
Awards were presented to:
Ji Hyun Kim
Travis Knight
Sean McDeavitt
Literary Awards were presented to:
Todd
Allen
Jeremy Busby
Bob Odette
Brian Wirth
A student literary award was presented to Alan Bolind for his presentation
at an ANS meeting.
Eight U.S. Grad-students Attend
NATO Sponsored School on Radiation Effects in Solids
On July
17th - 29th the NATO sponsored 32nd International School on Solid State Physics was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for
Scientific Culture in
Erice, Sicily, Italy. The topic of this
course was Radiation Effects in Solids, which was last addressed in an
international school held at the University of Illinois in 1993.
Pictured above: Neal Ham, Julie
Tucker, Micah Hackett, Gaurav Gupta, Clay
Dickerson, Erin Haney, Gabriel Sawakuchi, and
Maria Okuniewski pictured after the school ended.
Eight
graduate students from the United States were able to attend the
course with partial support from the Material Science and Technology Division. Neal Ham, Micah
Hackett and Gaurav Gupta from the University of
Michigan, Julie Tucker, Clay Dickerson and Erin Haney from the University
of Wisconsin, Gabriel Sawakuchi from Oklahoma State University and Maria Okuniewski
from the University of Illinois participated. Course participants enjoyed lectures and
laboratories with international experts in areas such as fundamentals of
radiation damage, characterizing radiation damage using electron
microscopy, ion beam irradiation, irradiation assisted stress corrosion
cracking, molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo and much more.
MSTD Sessions at ANS 2004 Winter
Meeting
Session: Advances in Materials Testing and Analysis
Time: Wednesday afternoon
Chair: John
Lambert
Alternate Chair: Carl
Beyer
Room: Council
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Tracking
ID
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Title
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125726
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Uranium-Based
Catalysts
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116030
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Demonstration
of Millimeter-Wave Waste Glass Melter
Monitoring Technology for Viscosity and Salt-Layer Formation
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125502
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Development of
Non-destructive Post-irradiation Examination Technique Using High-energy
X-ray Computer Tomography
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125779
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Polonium
Contamination Removal from Stainless Steel by Baking Method
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123181*
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Estimating
Source Terms for Diverse Spent Nuclear Fuel Forms
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125983
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Radiation Effects in ZrC
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125811
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Effects of
Light and Heavy Element Irradiation in Zirconium Nitride
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From session 2
Session: Development & Testing of Fuels for Advanced Reactors
Time: Thursday
morning
Chair: Rob
Hanrahan
Alternate: Todd
Allen
Room: Council
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Tracking
ID
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Title
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125687
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Thermochemistry
of Defects and Oxygen Diffusion in PuO2-x
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125978
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Depleted Uranium
Oxide Modification and Fabrication for Mixed Oxide Fuel Development at
the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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125805
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Removal of Iron
and Aluminum Impurities from Uranyl Nitrate
Solutions for AGR Feedstock
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125796
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Measurements of
Gap Conductance in Nuclear Fuels
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125700
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Radionuclide
Release from Mixed-Oxide Fuel under Severe Accident Conditions
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126237
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Development of
Mixed Carbide Fuels in Support of the AFCI Program
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Report on Summer
2004 Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA
MSTD held seven sessions at the combined Summer Meeting/ICAPP
Topical held in June 2004 in Pittsburgh.
Annual Meeting
Fuels
and Materials Performance
Reactor
Pressure Boundary Penetration Degradation (Panel)
Class III Topical
ICAPP
Materials/Corrosion
Issues of Supercritical Water Reactors (Panel)
Structural
and Materials Modeling and Analysis
Materials
for Space Reactor Concepts
Fuel
Design and Irradiation Issues for Next Generation Plants
Advanced
Issues in Welding and Materials
These sessions were well attended.
Thanks to Robert Hanrahan, Il Soon Hwang, Tetsuo Shoji,
Steve Zinkle, and Todd Allen
for organizing sessions.
MSTD will sponsor three sessions at the Summer 2005
Meeting in San Diego. These will be on Atomistic Modeling &
Continuum, Lead-cooled Fast Reactor Systems, and Supercritical Water-cooled
systems. Thanks to Tetsuo Shoji, Ning Li, and Todd Allen
for organizing these sessions.
Executive Committee
Congratulations to the
following new MSTD Executive Committee members.
Deborah Bennett
LANL
Jim Cole ANL-W
John Lambert
McDeavitt
Purdue
Jim Stubbins Florida
Janne Wallenius RIT Sweden
Thanks to the following outgoing members for 3 years of
service.
Carl J. Czajkowski
Nasr M Ghoniem
Robert J. Hanrahan, Jr.
James J. Laidler
Masathoshi Sato
Congratulations to Executive Committee member Travis
Knight. He has accepted a faculty
position at the University of South
Carolina.
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