Daniel Mast and Bradley Childs (Chemistry) won awards in the 2016 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), office of fuel cycle technologies.
Mast was awarded a first-place prize in the open competition in the category of nuclear science and engineering. His award-winning research paper, “Equation of State for Technetium from X-Ray Diffraction and First-Principle Calculations,” was published in the Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids this month.
Childs was awarded a prize in the competition for students who attend universities with less than $600 million in 2014 r&d expenditures. His award-winning research paper, “The Nature of the Volatile Technetium Species Formed During Vitrification of Borosilicate Glass,” was published in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry in November 2015.
The Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards program is designed to:
- award graduate and undergraduate students for innovative fuel-cycle-relevant research publications
- demonstrate the Department of Energy’s commitment to higher education in fuel-cycle- relevant disciplines
- support communications among students and DOE representatives
The program awarded 17 prizes in 2016 for student publications relevant to the nuclear fuel cycle. In addition to cash awards, award-winning students will have a variety of opportunities.
