AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition
    Actinides and Rare Earths Focus Topic Thursday Sessions

Session AC+AS+SA-ThM
Chemistry and Physics of the Actinides and Rare Earths

Thursday, November 10, 2016, 8:00 am, Room 103C
Moderators: David Shuh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Art Nelson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


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8:00am AC+AS+SA-ThM1 Invited Paper
Covalency in Oxidized Uranium
James G. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
8:40am AC+AS+SA-ThM3
An In Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Plutonium Oxidation
Paul Roussel, W. Lake, AWE, UK
9:00am AC+AS+SA-ThM4
Advanced Applications of Synchrotron Sources to Describe Water Soluble Plutonium Colloids
Thomas Dumas, CEA, France, E. Dalodière, M. Virot, ICSM Marcoule, V. Morosini, CEA Marcoule, T. Chave, ICSM Marcoule, C. Hennig, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, T. Wiss, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for Transuranium Elements, D.K. Shuh, T. Tyliszcaak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, P. Moisy, CEA Marcoule, I. Nikitenko, ICSM Marcoule
9:20am AC+AS+SA-ThM5
In Pristinum Observation of Plutonium Hydride
Martin Brierley, J.P. Knowles, AWE
9:40am AC+AS+SA-ThM6
Evidence for f- and d-orbital Mixing in Lanthanide and Actinide Dialuminides, MAl2 (M = Ce, Sm, Eu, Yb, Lu, U, Pu)
Stefan Minasian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), A.B. Altman, J. Arnold, University of California at Berkeley, E.D. Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, C.H. Booth, J.I. Pacold, C.D. Pemmaraju, D.G. Prendergast, D.K. Shuh, T. Tyliszczak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
11:00am AC+AS+SA-ThM10
Comparative Analysis of Uranium Oxide Films
Miguel Santiago Cordoba, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:20am AC+AS+SA-ThM11
Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Actinide Materials
David Shuh, S.G. Minasian, C. Pemmaraju, A. Canning, D.G. Prendergast, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, T. Tyliszczak, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, University of California, Berkeley, A. Modin, S. Butorin, J. Nordgren, L. Werme, P. Oppeneer, Uppsala University, Sweden