VCU Receives Most Presentation and Paper Awards at American Nuclear Society Student Conference
College of Engineering students at VCU brought home several wins from this year’s American Nuclear Society Student Conference. Below are our winning students, their work and the mentors that helped them along the way.
Best Presentation
“0-D Heat Exchange Modelling of Sample Holder for Production of At-211”
–James Vulcanoff, Ph.D., Alexander Coxe, Ph.D., Skye Thurston, Lane B. Carasik, Ph.D.
“Streamlined Analysis of Neutron Emission from Pebble Fuels”
–Holden Walker, Braden Goddard, Ph.D.
“The Price of Tomorrow: Making Sense of SMRs vs. Solar Economics”
–Daniel Rodriguez, Ph.D., Supathorn Phongikaroon, Ph.D., Oleg Korenok, Ph.D., Ruben Glover.
Best Paper
“Identification of U and Th Surrogates and Their Chemical Characteristics for Chromatographic Separation”
–Shams Al Azzawi, Braden Goddard, Ph.D., Jessika V. Rojas, Ph.D., Mahmoud Khatab, Ph.D.
“Non-Destructive Analysis of a Commercial Rubber-Based Shielding Composite”
–Nuvin Bazid, Furkan Erdogan, Carlos Blank, Jessika V. Rojas, Ph.D., Braden Goddard, Ph.D.
“Simulations of External Flow Around Twisted Elliptical Tubes for Above Unity Prandtl Numbers and Low to Moderate Reynolds Numbers”
–Sierra Tutwiler, Dillon R. Shaver, Ph.D., Lane B. Carasik, Ph.D.
Best Poster
“Generating Gamma-ray Spectra for use in a Machine Learning Model to Differentiate HALEU & HEU”
–Aristidis Loumis-Demetrakopoulos, Tyrell Simmons, Braden Goddard, Ph.D.
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