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2009 ANS Student Conference

"Nuclear Engineers - Reacting To Power The World"

April 1 – 5 • University of Florida • Gainesville
 

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Friday Morning -- April 3, 2009
Reitz Union Room 284 Radiation Dosimetry I Presenter: From:
8:40 AM A Real-Time Fiber Optic Coupled Point Dosimeter Dan Hyer University of Florida
9:00 AM Tissue Weighting Factor Derivation and Alaysis: ICRP 26, 60, 103 Kevin Makinson Oregon State University
9:20 AM MCNPX Microdosimetry Evaluation for Radiobiology Applications Rachel Crisp Purdue University
9:40 AM UF Series of Hybrid Computational Phantoms Representing ICRP Reference Pediatric and Adult Males and Females Choonsik Lee University of Florida
10:00 AM Geant4 Monte Carlo Dose Calculations Based on CT Data Shanjie Purdue University
10:20 AM Break    
10:40 AM Beta Dosimeter Design Analysis using Monte Carlo Methods Edward Cazalas Oregon State University
11:00 AM Measurement of Uranium in Anthropometric Lung Phantoms and Residual Waste using Kinetic Phosphorescence Analysis and Alpha Spectrometry James Bowen University of Cincinnati
11:20 AM The New VARSKIN 4 Dosimetry Model of the Skin Michael Ryan Oregon State University
11:40 AM Neutron Beam Optimization Approach for BNCT Irradiation Facilities Manuel Sztejnberg Gonçalves-Carralves Purdue University
       
Reitz Union Room 282 Reactor Physics Presenter: From:
8:40 AM The Uses of Perturbation Theory for Improving the Modeling Capability of the Advanced Test Reactor Joshua Peterson The University of Texas at Austin
9:00 AM Core-wide Transient Calculation with 3D transport code DeCART Mathieu Hursin University of California, Berkeley
9:20 AM Conceptual Design of a Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Bryan Herman Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
9:40 AM Equilibrium Composition of a Sodium Cooled Fast Reactor Core using MOCUP Filippo Bartolon University of California, Berkeley
10:00 AM Maximum fuel utilization in a fast reactor without chemical reprocessing Florent Heidet University of California, Berkeley
10:20 AM Break    
10:40 AM Application of the KPSS Stationarity Diagnostic to Monte Carlo Source Convergence Michael Wenner University of Florida
11:00 AM Kinetic Parameters of 8.0% Enriched MASLWR Fuel in Comparison with Conventional PWR Fuel Alexey Soldatov Oregon State University
11:20 AM Addressing the HTGR Double Heterogeneity and Methods for HTGR Design Christopher Perfetti University of Florida
11:40 AM Isotopic composition of the fuel irradiated at MASLWR operational conditions Alexey Soldatov Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 285 Mathematics and Computation I Presenter: From:
8:40 AM Galerkin-Quadratures for Solving Particle Transport Problems with the SN Method Travis Trahan University of Michigan
9:00 AM Neutron Response of Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Detectors from Deterministic Adjoint Transport Calculations Mireille Rowe University of Florida
9:20 AM Critical-Eigenvalue Prediction for the Family of Boiling Water Reactors at Off-Rated Power Conditions Brett Rampal University of Florida
9:40 AM High Fidelity Equilibrium Core Calculations with the 3-D Whole Core Transport Code DeCART Brendan Kochunas University of Michigan
10:00 AM Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Nuclear Fuel and Cladding David Walsh Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute
10:20 AM Break    
10:40 AM A New Non-Linear Closure for Sn Finite Element Transport Peter Maginot Texas A&M University
11:00 AM Enhancing the Use of Entropy in MCNP for Stationarity Diagnostics Bo Shi Gerogia Institute of Technology
11:20 AM Subspace Multi-Scale Approach for Reactor Analysis, Phase 1: Energy Variable Jason Schaefer North Carolina State University
11:40 AM MCNPX, Attila, and EGSnrc - A Radiation Transport Code Comparison for Determining Dose Nick Myers Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 286 Isotopes and Radiation Presenter: From:
8:40 AM Electron and Material Interaction Studies for the Optimization of a Novel Tritium Based Radioisotope Power Source Thomas Adams Purdue University
9:00 AM Gamma Radiation Autoclave for Hypodermic Needle and Syringe Sterilization Jill Anderson University of Illinois
9:20 AM What Makes the Best Beach Sand? Using Neutron Activation Analysis to Find Out Jacob DeWitte MIT
9:40 AM Automated Multisignals Detection of Special Nuclear Materials in Cargo Containers Miltiadis Alamaniotis Purdue University
10:00 AM Heuristic Identification of Nuclear Materials from NRF spectra Miltiadis Alamaniotis Purdue University
10:20 AM Developing and Utilizing Food Irradiation Technologies Samuel Briggs Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 286 Instrumentation and Control Presenter: From:
10:40 AM Random Hole Optical Fibers for Nuclear Reactor Instrumentation and Control Bassam Alfeeli Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
11:00 AM Neutron Spectroscopy via Unfolding for Tension Metastable Fluid Detectors Tom Grimes Purdue University
11:20 AM Data Acquisition and Control of the Multi-Application Small Light Water Reactor Mitchell Young Oregon State University
11:40 AM Neutron Flux Spectra Foil Activation Measurements at SNS and HFIR (Canceled Presentation) Nicholas Luciano University of Tennessee
       
       
Friday Afternoon -- April 3, 2009
Reitz Union Room 284 Radiation Dosimetry II Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Dosimeter Design Analysis using Monte Carlo Methods Edward Cazalas Oregon State University
2:00 PM MCNP5 Model of the BNCT Collimator Extension at MITR-II Reactor Epithermal Neutron Irradiation Facility Nader Satvat Purdue University
2:20 PM Pediatric Nuclear Medicine Imaging Optimization Michael Wayson University of Florida
       
Reitz Union Room 284 Diagnostic and Therapy Physics Presenter: From:
3:20 PM Characterization of Ramping and Overscanning Volumes in Helical Computed Tomography Christopher Tien University of Florida
3:40 PM Clinical Implications of Histogram Analysis in Radiation Therapy Software Anil Pyakuryal University of Illinois at Chicago
4:00 PM Contribution of Secondary Neutrons to Dose in Varying Energy Proton Beams Jeff Ryckman Georgia Institute of Technology
4:20 PM Skeletal Neutron Dose Response Function Development for Hydrogen Amir Bahadori University of Florida
       
Reitz Union Room 282 Fuel Cycle Studies and Waste Management I Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Assessment of Release Metallic Radioactive Waste using a Wilcoxon Rank Sum Ahreum Kim Kyung hee University
2:00 PM Monitoring of Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Studies via UV-Visible Spectroscopy Jamie Warburton UNLV
2:20 PM Fuel Cycle Impact Analysis of High Performance Annular Fuel using CAFCA-SD Bo Feng MIT
3:00 PM Break      
3:20 PM Enhancement of Technetium Separation in Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Amber Wright UNLV
3:40 PM Real-Time Detection of UREX+3a Extraction Streams for Process Monitoring Applications Braden Goddard Texas A&M University
4:00 PM Hana Seo-Recycle Scenario of Concrete Waste during Decommissioning Hana Seo Kyung-hee university
4:20 PM Monte Carlo Examination of S-PRISM FUEL by Neutron Slowing Down Spectroscopy Nathan Zohner Idaho State University
       
Reitz Union Room 285 Mathematics and Computation II Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Rosenbrock Method Solutions of the Reactor Point Kinetics Equations Xue Yang Purdue University
2:00 PM Comparison of GEANT4 and SCINFUL: Simulation of an Organic Liquid Scintillator Neutron Spectrometer Sean Puskas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:20 PM Analysis of SPECT Imaging Simulation Using the TITAN Transport Code Katherine Keller University of Florida
2:40 PM Binary Tree Parallel Communication for MCNPX Michael Liesenfelt University of Florida
3:00 PM Break    
3:20 PM Calculation of Sub-critical Multiplication Using the Fission Matrix Method Michael Wenner University of Florida
3:40 PM The Effect of Random TRISO Particle Placement in HTGR Fuel Rodlets Christopher Perfetti University of Florida
4:00 PM The Effect of Photon Source Uncertainty on Shielding Analysis Rachel Slaybaugh University of Wisconsin
4:20 PM Improving the Mesh Generation Capabilities in the SCALE Hybrid Shielding Analysis Sequence Ahmad Ibrahim University of Wisconsin
4:40 PM A Hybrid Monte Carlo Method for Loosely-Coupled k-Eigenvalue problems (Canceled) Bethany Robinson Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 286 LWR Thermal Hydraulics I Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Flooding during Counter-Current Air-Water Flow in a Large-Diameter Vertical Tube Oren Draznin Texas A&M University
2:00 PM Multidimensional Stability Analysis of Fluid at Supercritical Pressure in a Heated Channel Tara Gallaway Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2:20 PM Thermal Hydraulics Model of Helical Steam Generator Koroush Shirvan MIT
2:40 PM Scaling Study of a Spacer Grid for Two Phase Flow Separate-Effects Test Facility Ryan Buck Penn State University
3:00 PM Break      
3:20 PM Flow Regime Identification via Symbolic Dynamic Filtering of Ultrasonic Signals Frank Nedwidek Penn State University
3:40 PM Hydrophilicity and Radiation Induced Surface Activation Alexander Bakken Purdue University
4:00 PM Droplet-Spacer Grid Interaction Phenomenon Investigation Douglas Miller Penn State University
4:20 PM Two-Phase Minor Loss for Air-Water Bubbly Flow via a 90-degree Vertical Elbow Mark Dorn Penn State University
       
       
Saturday Morning -- April 4, 2009
Reitz Union Room 284 Materials Science and Technology Presenter: From:
9:00 AM Lithium Binding State as a Function of Radial Distance along the NSTX Divertor Lenka Kollar Purdue University
9:20 AM Metal Doping in Diamond for High Power Electronic Applications William Neris University of Missouri
9:40 AM Control studies of lithiated-graphite surfaces and their implication on hydrogen retention in NSTX Bryan Heim Purdue University
10:00 AM Performance of Molybdenum Alloy TZM in Fusion Reactors Joseph Hubley MIT
10:20 AM Break     
10:40 AM The Susceptibility of Inconel Alloy X-750 to Stress Corrosion Cracking in Light Water Reactor Environments Jonathan Gibbs MIT
11:00 AM Measurements of X-rays from the Xintek Triode CNT Cathode Caroline Faxon Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
11:20 AM Crystal Growth and Characterization of Bismuth Tri-Iodide by modified Bridgman Method Wei Qui University of Florida
       
Reitz Union Room 282 LWR Thermal Hydraulics II Presenter: From:
9:00 AM Simulation of a Saturated Steam Jet in a Pool of Subcooled Water Dillon Shaver Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
9:20 AM Experimental Study of Thin Plate Cooling using Industrial Two-Phase Nozzles Seth Cadell Oregon State University
9:40 AM Implementation of Interfacial Transport Equations into TRACE Brian Vresko Penn State University
10:00 AM Heat Transfer by Spacer Grids in Laminar, High Void Flows Mike Meholic Penn State University
       
Reitz Union Room 282 Advanced Reactors I Presenter: From:
10:40 AM Capability Improvements for the Oregon State University Natural Circulation Integral Test Facility Mark Galvin Oregon State University
11:00 AM Reflector heading and other design issues for innovative small light water reactors Alexey Soldatov Oregon State University
11:20 AM Multi-Application Small Light Water Reactor Emily Smith Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 285 Mathematics and Computation III Presenter: From:
9:00 AM Thermal Modeling of Cylindrical Objects for Efficiency Evaluation Nicholas Lynn Texas A&M University
9:20 AM Advances in 3-D Parallel Burnup and Depletion with PENTRAN/PENBURN Kevin Manalo University of Florida
9:40 AM Second-Order Synchronized Leapfrog Advances for Second-Order ODEs Sven Chilton University of California, Berkeley
       
Reitz Union Room 285 Outreach and Environmental Sciences Presenter: From:
10:20 AM Outreach Activities of the UC Berkeley ANS Student Chapter Denia Djokic University of California, Berkeley
10:40 AM The Girl Scout Workshop Redeveloped -  A Success Story Rachel Slaybaugh University of Wisconsin
11:00 AM The Affects of Free Enterprise in the Nuclear Industry Cody Gibson Oregon State University
11:20 AM The Ecological Side of Nuclear Power: Conservation Activities at Nuclear Power Plants Maria Catanach Texas A&M University
11:40 AM 2008 Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation Jacob DeWitte MIT
       
Reitz Union Room 286 Thermal Hydraulics II Presenter: From:
9:00 AM Modifying MELCOR for HTGR LOCA Safety Analysis C. A. Cochran MIT
9:20 AM CFD Modeling of Upper Plenum Standpipe Break in Gas Reactors Brian Jackson Oregon State University
9:40 AM HT3R Modeling using SINDA/FLUINT James Banfield University of Tennessee
10:00 AM Multi-Scale Thermo-Mechanical Model of the Deep-Burn Transuranic TRISO Fuel Raluca Scarlat Unversity of California, Berkeley
10:20 AM Break    
10:40 AM Computational Fluid Dynamics Separate Effects Study of the VHTR Lower Plenum Eric Moore University of Tennessee
11:00 AM Scaling Analysis for Pebbles in the VHTR Test Facility Benjamin Nelson Oregon State University
11:20 AM Scaled Experiment on Gravity-driven Exchange for a Postulated Air-ingress in VHTR Emily Stumbris Pennsylvania State University
11:40 AM Printed Circuit Heat Exchanger Cost Analysis for use in Supercritical CO2 Brayton Cycle Jacqueline Tonigan University of New Mexico
       
Reitz Union Room 287 Radiation Protection and Shielding Presenter: From:
9:00 AM Gamma Radiation Autoclave for Hypodermic Needle and Syringe Sterilization Jill Anderson University of Illinois
9:20 AM Architectural Safety Considerations in Designing Nuclear Power Stations Ahmed Konsowa MTC, Egyptian Army
9:40 AM Analysis of Concrete Activation in IRIS Reactor Containment using MAVRIC, a Hybrid Methodology Code in SCALE 6 Jordan McKillop Georgia Institute of Technology
       
Reitz Union Room 287 Radiation Detectors Presenter: From:
10:20 AM Monte Carlo Simulations for Monitoring HEU in Large Storage Arrays (Canceled Presentation) James Bevins University of Tennessee
10:40 AM X-ray backscatter imaging using a fan bean source Olivier Bougeant University of Florida
11:00 AM Gaseous Argon Detector Systematics: Developments Towards an Antineutrino Detector Michael Foxe Purdue University
11:20 AM CdZnTe Frisch Collar Detector Characterization at Different Voltages Alireza Kargar Kansas State University
11:40 AM Comparisons in Neutron Detection, as modeled by MCNPX, in Li-6 Glass, HE-3, BF-3, and Borated PVT Lawrence Lakeotes UNLV
       
       
Saturday Afternoon -- April 4, 2009
Reitz Union Room 284 Fuel Cycle Studies and Waste Management II Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing: U.S. Policy Analysis Kyle Hartig Oregon State University
2:00 PM A Survey on Closing America’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Jason Casey Oregon State University
2:20 PM An Economic Model of Nuclear Reprocessing Using Vensim Samuel Brinton Kansas State University
2:40 PM Overview of Geologic Containment at Yucca Mountain Jacob Boileau Oregon State University
3:00 PM Break    
3:20 PM Krypton Storage in Diamond Lattice Vivian Rodriguez University of Missouri
3:40 PM Impact of Separation Efficiencies on Repository Peak Temperature Time Anthony Scopatz The University of Texas at Austin
4:00 PM The Hydride Formation Rate in Zircaloy-4 as a Function of Temperature Adam Parkison Texas A&M University
4:20 PM Influence of Temperature on Pu(IV) Extraction Under PUREX Conditions Michael Brown Oregon State University
       
Reitz Union Room 282 Advanced Reactors II Presenter: From:
1:40 PM The Molten Salt Reactor Danielle Perez Idaho State University
2:00 PM HTE Hydrogen "Cogeneration" with 400 MWt Pebble Bed Reactor Modules  Matthew J. Marzano University of Florida
2:20 PM Core Disruptive Accidents in Metal and Oxide Fueled Cores Matthew Denman MIT
3:00 PM Break    
3:20 PM Nuclear Desalination: The Co-Generation of Electricity and Water Chanel Tissot Oregon State University
3:40 PM Feasibility of Nuclear Power for Hydrogen Production Mark Sugimoto North Carolina State University
4:00 PM The HPGe modular HTGR design for Hydrogen Production James Racioppo Unversity of Florida
4:20 PM Modeling and Design of the Stochastic Distribution of Fuel Particles and Pebble-Bed Reactors Wayne Lee Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:40 PM Propagation of Uncertainties for Transient Analysis for Sodium Fast Reactors Matthew Denman MIT
       
Reitz Union Room 285 Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Safeguards Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Proliferation Resistance Assessment of an Example Sodium Fast Reactor Marie Cronholm Texas A&M University
2:00 PM Assessing Inhaled Contamination following a Radiological Dispersal Device Using NaI(Tl) Detectors Shaheen Dewji Georgia Institute of Technology
2:20 PM Using Safeguards Analytical Methods to Determine Legacy Contamination Denia Djokic University of California, Berkeley
2:40 PM Protecting the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure: Domestic Nuclear Power Plant Security in the Post 9/11 Era Shaheen Dewji Georgia Institute of Technology
3:00 PM Break    
3:20 PM iMASS: Adjustable Geometries in GEANT4 with NRF Applications Jason Young Purdue University
3:40 PM Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Applications Vladimir Mozin University of California, Berkeley
4:00 PM First Step Towards Development of a Unique SNM Detection System Jeffrey Webster Purdue University
4:20 PM Is it a Nuclear Weapons Program or Not? Lance Kim University of California, Berkeley
       
Reitz Union Room 286 Fusion and Applied Plasma Physics Presenter: From:
1:40 PM Large Scale Economic Production of Hydrogen Fuel from a Steady-State Tokamak Fusion Reactor: HYPERION Thome Kathreen MIT
2:00 PM Optimal Tokamak Size for L-mode Operation: 0-D Analysis Mark Reed MIT
2:20 PM Avoiding H-Mode and Advantages therein for the Large Scale Economic Production of Hydrogen Fuel from a Steady-State Tokamak Fusion Reactor: HYPERION Kathreen Thome MIT
2:40 PM Alcator C-mod Overview and Upgrades Robert Mumgaard MIT
       
Reitz Union Room 286 Space Nuclear Power Presenter: From:
3:20 PM Testing of Two Small Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Designs Alexander Mieloszyk Oregon State University
3:40 PM Microgravity Flow Regime Modeling Adam Shephard Texas A&M University
4:00 PM Nuclear Enhanced MHD Megawatt Space Transport Arlo Swallow University of Florida
       
Reitz Union Room 287 Student Sections Roundtable Presenter: From:
2:00 PM Free Format All Students All Schools
       
 
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