| Poster Highlights 1 |
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| Los Alamos undergraduate student Alayna Rodriguez poses before her poster, “Speciation of Pu in Aged Wastes and Wasteforms.” Rodriguez, now attending Harvard, conducted her research with Steve Conradson and Juan Lezama-Pacheco. |
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| Working intensely to drive home a point to a group of listeners, Los Alamos’ Joel Kohler displays an equivalent talent for elaborating the details of the Bolus Grande containment vessels as he did when occasionally entertaining conference attendees in the main registration area with his ad hoc piano recitals. |
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| Angelique Diaz of the Colorado School of Mines receives a mini-tutorial from Los Alamos’ Mark Paffett in some of Materials Science and Technology Division’s electrochemical techniques. |
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A conference attendee studies AWE’s experiments aimed at discovering new techniques for the immobilization-storage of actinide and halide wastes derived from plutonium metal processing. The new techniques include immobilization using zeolites and calcium phosphate ceramics and vitrification in phosphate glasses. |
