April 9-13, 2012

Kevin Field presented his work titled, "Role of Grain Boundary Structure on Radiation Induced Segregation in a Model Ferritic/Martensitic Steel" at the MRS 2012 Spring meeting in San Francisco, CA held from April 9-13, 2012. 

March 22, 2012

1. Yina Huang made a presentation of "Understanding irradiation behavior of ZrC" at All-hands meeting on March 22.

2. Yina Huang is visiting Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland as a guest scientist to study flash electronic polishing on lift-out samples by focus ion beam (FIB) and discuss collaboration of studying ferritic and martensitic steel.

March 11-15 2012

Alicia Certain, Laura Jamison, Tyler Gerczak, Vahid Firouzdor, Lingfeng He, and Clarissa Yablinsky presented their work at the The Minerals, Metals, and Material Society annual meeting from March 11-15 in Orlando, FL.

Tyler presented a talk entitled, "Role of Microstructure on Ag and Cs Diffusion in SiC."

Clarissa presented two talks, "Analysis and Modeling of Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation Defects in CeO₂" and "Characterization of Freeze-cast Scaffolds as a Novel Fuel Form."

Laura presented, "Grain Size Dependence of the Radiation Response in Silicon Carbide."

Vahid presented, "Development of Diffusion Barrier coatings for mitigation of fuel-cladding chemical interaction."

March 6, 2012

Laura Jamison will be participating in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, to be held from July 1 to July 6, 2012, in Lindau (Germany).