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MINIATURE, SUBMERSIBLE ELECTROMAGNETIC PUMPS OF MOLTEN LEAD AND SODIUM FOR GEN-IV NUCLEAR REACTORS DEVELOPMENT, Ragai M. Altamimi

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ThermalHydraulics Analysis of the Unit-Cell Nuclear Light Bulb Rocket Engine, Vojislav Banjac

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Coupled Radiation Transport / Thermal Analysis of the Radiation Shield for a Space Nuclear Retractor, William John Barattino

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Development of The University of New Mexico Spectrometer for High-Resolution Fission Product Yield Data, Richard Emery Blakeley

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Space-Time Kinetics of the AGN-201M Research Reactor at the University of New Mexico, Douglas Bowen

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Development of a Positron-Emitting Surrogate Microsphere for Image-Based Dosimetry in Yttrium-90 Radioembolization Therapy, Gregory D. Chambers

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Radiation Effects in Metal Oxides and Carbides, Benjamin Jackson Cowen

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Facility-Specific Radiation Exposure Risks and Their Implications for Radiation Workers at Department of Energy Laboratories, Adam Davis

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A Computationally Efficient Moment-Preserving Monte Carlo Electron Transport Method with Implementation in Geant4, David Dixon

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Modeling and Analysis of Actinide Diffusion Behavior in Irradiated Metal Fuel, Paul Edelmann

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An arbitrary curvilinear coordinate particle in cell method, Christopher Fichtl

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Stochastic methods for uncertainty quantification in radiation transport, Erin D. Fichtl

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Doppler Temperature Coefficient Calculations Using Adjoint-Weighted Tallies and Continuous-Energy Cross Sections in MCNP6, Matthew A. Gonzales

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Time dependent non-extinction probability for fast burst reactors, Michael Gregson

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Experimental Investigations on Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics of Accident-Tolerant-Fuel and Traditional Claddings, Mingfu He Mr.

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Asymptotic Neutronic Solutions for Fast Burst Reactor Design, Edward L. Hobbs

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Experimental and Computational Investigations of Heat Transfer Systems in Fluoride Salt-cooled High-temperature Reactors, Joel T. Hughes

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Dual Neutral Particle Beam Interrogation of Intermodal Shipping Containers for Special Nuclear Material, Rodney Keith

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Development of a Novel Framework for the Application of Signature Based Safeguards (SBS) to Pyroprocessing, Philip Leo Lafreniere

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Impact of Nuclear Rocket Engine Design on Control Strategies, John A. Lambright

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Experimental Investigation of Steady-state and Transient Flow Boiling Critical Heat Flux, Soon Kyu Lee

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From the lab to the real world : sources of error in UF6 gas enrichment monitoring, Marcie Lombardi

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Dual neutral particle induced transmutation, William Martin

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High Precision Refractive Index Measurement Techniques Applied to the Analysis of Neutron Damage and Effects in CaF2 Crystals, Joseph P. Morris Ph.D.

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Investigating the Electrodeposition of Plutonium and Curium for Safeguarding the Electrorefiner, Chantell L. Murphy

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An Sn Application of Homotopy Continuation in Neutral Particle Transport, Nicholas Myers

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A novel method for modeling the neutron Time of Flight (nTOF) detector response in current mode to inertial confinement fusion experiments, Alan Nelson

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Reduced-Order Monte Carlo Modeling of Radiation Transport in Random Media, Aaron J. Olson

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Modeling and Simulation of Stochastic Neutron and Cumulative Deposited Fission Energy Distributions, Patrick O'Rourke

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Material Reliability for a Molten Chloride Salt System, Aaron A.H. Overacker

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NEUTRONIC AND CFD-THERMAL HYDRAULIC ANALYSES OF VERY-SMALL, LONG-LIFE, MODULAR (VSLLIM) REACTOR, Luis M. Palomino

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Explosive Electron Emission and the Characteristics of High-current Electron Flow, Robert Kelley Parker

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Fokker-Planck-Based Acceleration for SN Equations with Highly Forward Peaked Scattering in Slab Geometry, Japan K. Patel

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ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF COSMIC-RAY MUON RADIOGRAPHY, John Perry

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SIMULATIONS OF SPACE RADIATION INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS, WITH APPLICATION TO DOSE ESTIMATES FOR LUNAR SHELTER AND ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, Tai Pham

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INTERROGATION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CASKS USING COSMIC-RAY MUON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY, Daniel C. Poulson

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Prompt Neutron Decay Constants in a Reflected Fast Burst Reactor, Charles Clayton Price

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Effective Equation of State Measurements on Uranium Dioxide, Kenneth Orvis Reil

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Understanding the Behavior of Upper Subcritical Limit Calculations, Bobbi Riedel

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Quantification and propagation of nuclear data uncertainties, Michael Rising

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Swirling jets for the mitigation of hot spots and thermal Sstratification in the VHTR lower plenum, salvador rodriguez

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Sonomechanical Enhanced Sparging Techniques for Advanced Reactor Applications, Floren V. Rubio

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Techniques for Active 3He Activation Analysis for Carbon and Oxygen, William Mort Sanders

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Patient Specific Radiation Doses From Projection Radiography Images: Improving the Accuracy of Low Dose Radiation Calculations, Daniel J. Sandoval

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The Effect of Volatile Fission Products on Fuel Motion in Nuclear Fuel Elements, Paul Sasa

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MULTI-PHYSICS DESIGN AND ANALYSES OF LONG LIFE REACTORS FOR LUNAR OUTPOSTS, Timothy M. Schriener

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Transport Calculations in Particle-Loaded Media, Gary J. Scrivner

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Simulation of Thermal Radiation Transport in Stochastic Media with Nonlinear Temperature Dependence, Corey Michael Skinner

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TIME AND ENERGY CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEUTRON TIME OF FLIGHT DETECTOR USING A NOVEL COINCIDENCE METHOD FOR CONSTRAINING NEUTRON YIELD, ION TEMPERATURE AND LINER DENSITY MEASUREMENTS FROM MAGLIF EXPERIMENTS, Jedediah Styron

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ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION DOSE ASSESSMENT AND VALIDATION FOR URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE STORAGE MANAGEMENT, Shiaw-Der Su

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Moment-Based Accelerators for Kinetic Problems with Application to Inertial Confinement Fusion, William Taitano

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Computational Methods, Investigations, and Codes to Support Corrosion Experiments in Molten Lead and Transfer to Reactor Conditions, Khaled A. Talaat

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Advanced Stochastic Collocation Methods for Polynomial Chaos in RAVEN, Paul W. Talbot

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THE EFFECTS OF A POWER ITERATION-BASED K-EIGENVALUE SOLVER FOR VARIOUS SUBCRITICAL PARAMETERS AND CALCULATIONS, Daniel H. Timmons

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MOBILE, HYBRID COMPTON/CODED APERTURE IMAGING FOR DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION OF GAMMA-RAY SOURCES AT STAND-OFF DISTANCES, Shawn Tornga

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Thin film AlSb carrier transport properties and room temperature radiation response, Erin Vaughan

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A Two-Dimensional Spherical-Polar Multigroup Discrete Ordinates Code for Atmospheric Particle Transport, Daniel T. Wakeford

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Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments, Colin A. Weaver

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INNOVATIVE OPEN AIR BRAYTON COMBINED CYCLE SYSTEMS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, Bahman Zohuri

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Novel techniques for the detection and localization of attenuated gamma-ray sources, Tyler Alecksen

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Elastic-Plastic Poisson's Ratio of Borsic-Reinforced Aluminium Composites, Ronald Edward Allred

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Design and Characterization of Systems for Direct Spatial Imaging of Low-Energy Gamma-Radiation Sources, Phoenix Baldez

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The Inverse Kinetics Method and Its Application to the Annular Core Research Reactor, Thomas A. Ball

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Conceptual Design of the Modular Transuranic Shipping Cask MTS-54, Vojislav Banjac

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Development of sensitivity analysis with the use of TSUNAMI-3D sensitivity coefficients for benchmark uncertainty analysis, Allison Barber

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A time-of-flight spectrometer for fission fragment identification, Richard Blakeley

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Joining of Candidate Materials for Lead-Cooled Fast Reactors, Brandon M. Bohanon

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A TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE TIME RESPONSE AND THROUGH-PUT DELAY OF NEUTRON TIME-OF-FLIGHT (nTOF) SCINTILLATION DETECTORS USING COSMIC RADIATION IN A COINCIDENCE SYSTEM, Michael Bonura

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The Effect Of Porosity On Transverse Tensile Strength Of Filament Wound/Cvd Carbon-Carbon Composites., Gilbert William Brassell

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Application of an Empirical Density Law via Python for Aqueous Plutonium Chloride Systems for MCNP6, Riley Bulso

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DEVELOPMENT OF WIRELESS PEBBLE FOR PACKED BED HEAT TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS AND MACHINE LEARNING-AIDED ACCIDENT DIAGNOSIS FOR LOSS OF FLOW ACCIDENT (LOFA), Dongjune Chang

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Diagnostics of source distribution and particle population in Monte Carlo source iteration methods, Bryan Scott Chapman

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Vacuum-Freezing Vapor-Desublimation High Pressure Ice-Melting Process For Water Desalination, Ting-Chuan Chung

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An Ionization Chamber for High Resolution Fission Product Spectroscopy, James Cole

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MONTE CARLO PERTURBATION ANALYSIS OF DIMENSION AND DENSITY VARIATIONS OF THE ANNULAR CORE RESEARCH REACTOR MODEL FUEL, Karissa Currie

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Radiation Damage in Permanent Magnet Lenses, Christopher Danly

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Validation Studies of Single-Phase Natural Circulation Response of the Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor (FHR), Amy Drumm

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Measurements of scintillation light quenching for protons in rare-earth inorganic scintillators, Tatiana Nathaly Espinoza

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CHARACTERIZATION OF PARTIAL CHARGE COLLECTION INDUCED BY NEUTRON DAMAGE IN HIGH-PURITY GERMANIUM DETECTORS, James W. Evans

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TIME-OF-FLIGHT AND ENERGY LOSS ANALYSIS ON THE UNM FISSION FRAGMENT SPECTROMETER, Shelby Fellows

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An exploration of the optical detection of ionizing radiation utilizing modern optics technology, Sean D. Fournier, Adam Hecht, Cassiano de Oliveira, Jeffrey B. Martin, Richard K. Harrison, and Charles Potter

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Characterization of the Neutron Irradiation System for use in the Low-Dose-Rate Irradiation Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, Jr. Manuel Franco

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A moment-preserving single-event Monte Carlo model of electron and positron energy-loss straggling, Matthew Gonzales

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PREDICTING ACTIVATION OF EXPERIMENTS INSIDE THE ANNULAR CORE RESEARCH REACTOR, Joseph Greenberg

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Criticality alarm system design guide with accompanying alarm system development for the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory in Richland, Washington, Bryce Greenfield

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Ionization Chamber Design, Development, and Testing for the UNM Fission Fragment Spectrometer, Lena Heffern

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APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TO CHF MODELLING, Mingfu He Mr

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Characterization of Uranium Foil Irradiations at the WSU TRIGA Reactor Using a New Reactor Model in SCALE, Kimberly A. Hinrichs

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A Transient Thermal Analog of Nuclear Reactors, James R. Hume

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Comprehensive Calculations of the Parameters Describing Proton Energy Loss in Matter, Joseph F. Janni

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Developing a simulation tool for evaluating in-motion detector systems (LA-UR-18-29139), Brian Jennings

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A Prompt D-D Neutron Calibration Of A Plastic Scintillator Detector, Dal H. jensen

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Safeguards Considerations For A Htgr Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Philip G. Johnson

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Physical Properties of Copper Niobium Nanolamellar Composites Fabricated by Accumulative Roll Bonding, Jared Justice

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Eigenfunction expansion of the time and space-dependent neutron survival probability equation, Ryan J. Kamm

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IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTROREFINER AND CATHODE PROCESSING FAILURE MODES AND DETERMINATION OF SIGNATURE-SIGNIFICANCE FOR INTEGRATION INTO A SIGNATURE BASED SAFEGUARDS FRAMEWORK FOR PYROPROCESSING, Philip Lafreniere

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Comparing water to DNA for simulation of Auger electron direct damage to DNA using Geant4, Elliott Leonard

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A Novel Neutron Recoil Spectrometer Concept Utilizing Heavy-Ion Recoils and Time- and Spatially-Resolved Sensor, Joel Long

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An ionization chamber for fission fragment analysis, Drew Mader

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Utilizing Sensitivity and Correlation Coefficients from MCNP and Whisper to Guide Microreactor Experiment Design, Alexis Maldonado