Tuesday, May 1, 2018

PNNL Welcome, Steve Ashby, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Director

INMM Welcome, Mona Dreicer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Science and Leadership in American Foreign Policy, Ambassador Laura Holgate, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Twenty-five Years of Nuclear Forensics: The Path Forward, David Kenneth Smith, International Atomic Energy Agency

Nuclear Materials Science and its Relevancy to Treaties and Policies, Michael Curry, U.S. Department of State

Nuclear Materials Science and Its Relevancy to Treaties and Policies – Session Chairs Mona Dreicer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and David Donnelly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Nuclear Forensics for Policy Students and Diplomats – George M. Moore, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
• Calling Putin’s Bluff (or Not?) Making Sense of Russian INF Treaty Contradictions – Jared Rowe, University of Washington
• Production and Characterization of Microparticle Reference Materials for Particle Analysis in Nuclear Safeguards – Stefan Neumeier, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Rekindling Nuclear Stewardship: A Critical Re-examination of the U.S.-Russia R&D Agreement – Leon Ratz, Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Prospects for U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Control after the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review – Laura Schmidt Denlinger, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• A Preliminary Assessment of Longer-term Implications of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty – David Donnelly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Highlights of the Quad Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control Research Initiative LETTERPRESS Simulation – Jacob Benz, Pacific Northwest
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Developing Next Generation Experts – Session Chairs Sarah Frazar and Amanda Sayre, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Workforce and Career Development in National Security – Tammy Taylor, Pacific NorthwestNational Laboratory
• Safeguards Knowledge Management & Retention at the U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Complex – Rebecca Jones, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Elements of a Sustainable Educational Experience in Nuclear Security and Safeguards – Camille Palmer, Oregon State University
• Developing and Optimizing the Next Generation of Experts: The Career Mapping Process – Leesa Duckworth, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Breakout Session – Introduction to Plutonium.

• A Historical Perspective of the Herculean Accomplishments and Challenges of the Plutonium Processing – David E. Meier, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• A Brief Overview of Post-reactor Plutonium Reprocessing – Matthew K. Edwards, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• An Overview of Plutonium Chemistry and Characterization in the Context of Historic Flowsheets – Lucas E. Sweet, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Breakout Session – Poster Session – Jim Andre, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Coupling of the Liquid Sampling with Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge (LS-APGD) Ionization Source with a Commercial Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer – Tyler Williams, Clemson University
• Development of 235U-231Pa Chronometer for Uranium Safeguards – Brittany Robertson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oregon State University
• Novel Time-dependent Gamma Spectroscopy Instrumentation and Analytical Methods in Determining Photofission Product Yields – Ari Foley, Oregon State University
• Uranium Particles Analysis and Imaging Using ToF-SIMS for Source Identification – Juan Yao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Soft Robotics in Radiation Environments for Safeguard Applications – Tyler Oshiro, Oregon State University
• High-temperature Drop-solution Calorimetry of PuO2 – Xiaofeng Guo, Washington State University
• A New Model to Determine the Intrinsic Kinetics of the Extraction Across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces – Christina Louie, Washington State University
• Crystal Growth Rates and Morphology Development on Plutonium(III)-oxalate by Changing Precipitation Conditions – Tenisha Meadows, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington State University
• Deterministic Phonon Transport as a Verification Tool for Spent Nuclear Fuel – Jackson Harter, Oregon State University
• Using Raman Spectroscopy to Monitor Phase Transfer Kinetics and Complexation of Tributyl Phosphate and Its Degradation Products during Solvent Extraction – Susan Asmussen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Preserving Historical Knowledge and Cultivating Future Leaders in Nuclear Science – Debra S. Barnett, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• A Forensics Methodology for Determining Irradiated Fuel Parameters – Sunil Chirayath, NSSPI and Texas A&M University
• Experimental Validation of a Nuclear Forensics Methodology for Reactor-type Attribution of Chemically Separated Plutonium – Jeremy Osborn, Texas A&M University
• Investigating Metallic Signatures of Special Nuclear Materials: Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Copper Oxides – Jessica L. Bishop, University of Tennessee
• Investigations on Detecting Potential Nuclear Material Diversion from a Pyroprocessing Facility – Seungmin Woo, Texas A&M University
• Nuclear, Optical , Magnetic, and Electronic Materials Group at WSU – Emily Taapke Nienhuis, Washington State University
• Novel Applications of Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry to Nuclear Forensics at PNNL – John Cliff, PNNL
• Quantification of Spatially Variant Efficiency in an Orthogonal Strip Detector – Timothy W. Jacomb- Hood, Texas A&M University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• A Bayesian Approach to Spectrum Unfolding – Haonan Zhu, University of Michigan
• Simulation of Spent Fuel Assemblies in Differential Die Away Instrument – Aaron G. Tumulak, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Monitoring Trace Element Fractionation During Actinide Metal Production – Matthew Athon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Forensics – Session Chairs Jon Schwantes, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Maria Wallenius, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements

• Exercise of the Capabilities of the FBI’s Radiological Evidence Examination Facility at Savannah River National Laboratory – James F. Blankenship, FBI
• Uranium Isotopic Composition Determination by Laser Ablation Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry – a New Tool for Nuclear Forensics – Maria Wallenius, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
• Utilizing Distributional Measurements of Material Characteristics from SEM Images for Inverse Prediction – Daniel Ries, Sandia National Laboratories
• Leveraging Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ Facilities for Nuclear Forensics – Kristin Leeder, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
• Nuclear Forensics in the UK: Current Status – Paul Thompson, Atomic Weapons Establishment, UK
• Developments in Nuclear Forensics at LLNL – Michael J. Kristo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Quantifying Morphological and Oxygen Isotopic Signatures of UO2 Based on Production History – Luther McDonald IV, University of Utah
• Standoff Isotopic Analysis of U Using Laser-induced Fluorescence of Laser-produced Plasmas – S. S. Harilal, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Deconstructing Nuclear Materials – Lav Tandon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Laser-produced plasmas and Spectroscopy for Nuclear Forensics Analysis – Kyle Hartig, University of Florida

Breakout Session – Introduction to Plutonium.

• A Historical Perspective of the Herculean Accomplishments and Challenges of the Plutonium Processing – David E. Meier, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• A Brief Overview of Post-reactor Plutonium Reprocessing –
  Matthew K. Edwards, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• An Overview of Plutonium Chemistry and Characterization in the Context of Historic Flowsheets – Lucas E. Sweet, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Signature Science – Session Chairs Mark Engelmann, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and John Auxier, University of Tennessee

• Classification of Forensic Measurements Using Multivariate Quantile Comparisons – Charles Weber, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• High-precision, High-mass Resolution Uranium Isotope Ratio Measurements Coupling the Liquid Sampling-Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge (LS-APGD) Microplasma with an Orbitrap Mass Analyzer – R. Kenneth Marcus, Clemson University
• A Review of Neutron List-mode Data Processing Methods for Safeguards Applications – Paul Mendoza, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Plutonium Processing Signature Development for National Security Applications – David E. Meier, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Nuclear Material Processing and Nonproliferation – Session Chairs David E. Meier, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Ben Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories

• New Approaches in Process Monitoring for Fuel Cycle Facilities – Ben Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories
• Application of a Triple Bubbler Sensor for Determining the Density, Surface Tension, and Depth in Molten Salts – Ammon N. Williams, Idaho National Laboratory
• Experimental Characterization of Pu Separation by PUREX on a Low-burnup, Pseudo-fast-neutron Irradiated DUO2 for Product Decontamination Factors – Paul Mendoza, Los Alamos National
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• Liquid Slurry Analysis of Radioactive Materials Using Liquid SIMS – Xiao-Ying Yu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Integration Modeling to Decipher a Fuel Cycle – Romarie Morales Rosado, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory