Peer Reviewed Publications for NSSC3:

October 2024 – September 2025 (NSSC3 Year 4):

• Schiferl, M.; McLachlan, J.; Peterson, A.; Marks, N.; Abergel, R. “Evaluating Nuclear Forensic Signatures for Advanced Reactor Deployment: A Research Priority Assessment.” Journal of Nuclear Engineering, Vol 5, Issue 4 (11/2024). https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4362/5/4/32
• J.M. Gordon, B.L. Goldblum, J.A. Brown, T.A. Laplace, J.C. Batchelder, D.L. Bleuel, C.A. Brand, B. Buckley, A. Geordiadou, C.J. Henderson, T.S. Johnson, J.W. Lee, K. Myers, T.S. Nagel, J.R. Sebastian, A.S. Voyles, L.A. Bernstein, “12C(n,n1’γ) partial γ-ray cross section measured using the GENESIS array,” Phys. Rev. C 111, 044608 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.111.044608
• C.A. Stewart, B.L. Goldblum, R.G. Abbott, L. Appleby, B.J. Borghetti, V. Hollingshead, J.H. Whetzel, “Machine Learning for Reactor Power Monitoring with Limited Labeled Data,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1073 (2025) 170285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.170285
• L. Shook, T.A. Laplace, M.S. Boswell, E.D. Bourret, S.E. Derenzo, B.L. Goldblum, “Scintillator Library: A database of inorganic and organic scintillator properties,” Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1075 (2025) 170389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.170389

October 2023 – September 2024 (NSSC3 Year 3):

• Darren Parkison, “Fabrication of bulk delta-phase Zirconium Hydride from Zircaloy-4 for use as moderators in microreactors,” Scripta Materialia, Volume 239, October 2023, 115771, ISSN 1359-6462, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115771
• Gordon, J. M., Batchelder, J. C., Bernstein, Lee A., Bleuel, D. L., Brand, C. A., Brown, J. A., Goldblum, B. L., Frandsen, B. G., Laplace, T. A., and Nagel, T. 2024. “GENESIS: Gamma Energy Neutron Energy Spectrometer for Inelastic Scattering”. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169120.
• Dominic Lioce, Tom Byvank, Anil Prinja, et al., “Design of Experiments to Spectroscopically Characterize Radiation Flow in Stochastic Media,” Physics of Plasmas, Volume 31, Issue 4 (April/2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0198139
• Peter Boone, Jennifer Shusterman, Tashi Parsons-Davis, et al., “Electrophoretic deposition for improved trace element homogeneity in silica reference materials.” Materials Letters, Volume 361, February 2024,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2024.136089.
• Joe Brackbill, Thayalan Rajeshkumar, John Arnold, et al., “Spectroscopic and Computational Evidence of Uranium Dihydrogen Complexes,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 146, January 2024. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c12636
• Aaron Hurst, Richard Firestone, Emanuel Chimanksi, et al., “pyEGAF: Modernization of the EGAF database,” Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, January 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-023-09316-2.
• A. Sweet, D.L. Bleuel, N.D. Scielzo, L.A. Bernstein, A.C. Dombos, B.L. Goldblum, C.M. Harris, T. A. Laplace, A.C. Larsen, R. Lewis, S.N. Liddick, S.M. Lyons, F. Naqvi, A. Palmisano-Kyle, A.L. Richard, M.K. Smith, A. Spyrou, J. Vujic, and M. Wiedeking, “Nuclear level density and γ decay strength of 93Sr,” Phys. Rev. C 109, 054305 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.054305

• Joshua Brown, Bethany Goldblum, Joey Gordon, et al., “Proton discrimination in CLYC for fast neutron spectroscopy,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 1069. December 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169859

October 2022 – September 2023 (NSSC3 Year 2):

• Frame, E and Barnowski, R and Gunter, D and Mihailescu, L and Vetter, K. “A dual-modality volumetric gamma-ray imager for near-field applications,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2022. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9932443
• Stevenson, S., Dong, A., Xie, Y., Morrell, J., Voyles, A. S., Bickel, J., Bernstein, L., Maloy, S. A., & Hosemann, P. (2022). The effects of high energy deuteron ion beam irradiation on the tensile behavior of HT-9. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 531, 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.09.001
• Bello Garrote F, Lopez-Martens A, Larsen A, Deloncle I, Peru S, Zeiser F, Greenlees P, Kheswa B, Auranen K, Bleuel D, Cox D, Crespo Campo L, Giacoppo F, Gorgen A, Grahn T, Guttormsen M, Hagen T, Harkness-Brennan L, Hauschild K, Henning G, Herzberg R, Julin R, Juutinen S, Laplace T, Leino M, Midtbo J, Modamio V, Pakarinen J, Papadakis P, Partanen J, Renstrom T, Rezynkina K, Sandzelius M, Saren J, Scholey C, Siem S, Sorri J, Stolze S, Uusitalo J, “Experimental observation of the M1 scissors mode in 254No”, Physics Letters B, 834, (Nov/2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137479
• Callaghan, E, Goldblum B, Brown, J, Laplace, L, Manfredi, J, Yeh, M, Orebi Gann, G, “Measurement of proton light yield of water-based liquid scintillator”, The European Physical Journal C, 83, (February/2023) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-11242-2
• Brown J., Laplace T., Goldblum B., Manfredi J., Johnson T. , Moretti F., Venkatraman A., “Absolute light yield of the EJ-204 plastic scintillator”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168397
• Hurst, A.M., Pierson, B.D., Archambault, B.C., Bernstein, L.A., and Tannous, S.M., “A decay datababase of coincident γ-γ and γ-X-ray branching ratios for in-field spectroscopy applications”, Eur. Phys. J. (Web of Conf.), 284, 18002 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328418002     
• Hurst AM, Firestone RB, Chimanksi EV, “pyEGAF: An open source Python library for the Evaluated Gamma-ray Activation File”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A, September 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168715
• Ryan Smith, “A portable and monoenergetic 24 keV neutron source based on 124Sb-9Be photoneutrons and an iron filter.” JINST 18, P07018 (July 2023). https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/18/07/P07018

• A. Hurst, Firestone RB, Chimanksi EV, “pyEGAF: An open source Python library for the Evaluated Gamma-ray Activation File”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. Sect. A, September 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2023.168715

• J. Hecla, A. Bernstein, S. Dazeley, and O.A. Akindele, “A long path-length optical property measurement device for highly transparent detector media”, JINST 18 P09004. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/18/09/P09004

• J. Hecla, Kambarian E, Tubbs R, McKinley C, Berliner AJ, Russell K, Spatola G, Chertok J, Braun W, Hank N, Marquette C, Betz J, Paik T, Chenery M, Cagan A, Willis C, Mousseau T. Radioactive contamination in feral dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: Population body-burden survey and implications for human radiation exposure. PLoS One. 2023 Jul 20;18(7):e0283206. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283206. PMID: 37471331; PMCID: PMC10358910. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10358910/

• E. Frame, Kondapa Bobba, Donald Gunter, Lucian Mihailescu, Anil Bidkar, Robert Flavell, Kai Vetter, “Coded aperture and Compton imaging for the development of 225Ac-based radiopharmaceuticals”. Med Phys. 2023; 50: 6454–6468. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.16717

• O.A. Akindele, A. Bernstein, M. Bergevin, S.A. Dazeley, F. Sutanto, A. Mullen, and J. Hecla, ” Exclusion and Verification of Remote Nuclear Reactors with a 1-kiloton Gd-Doped Water Detector”, Phys. Rev. Applied 19, 034060 – Published 20 March 2023. https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.034060

• Berliner Aaron J., Hecla Jake, “Nuclear history, politics, and futures from (A)toms-to(Z)oom: Design and deployment of a remote-learning special-topics course for nuclear engineering education”, Frontiers in Education, 7, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.868052

• J. Vujic, “Nuclear Power in The XXI Century? – A Personal View,” Chapter in “Women in Power Volume” – Springer: Women in Engineering and Sciences Series, July 2023 , https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-29724-3

• M.M. Pozulp, T. Haut, P.S. Brantly, and J.L. Vujic, “An Implicit Monte Carlo Acceleration Scheme,” ANS M&C 2021 – The International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering – Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 13-17, 2023 , also LLNL-PROC-848841. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.2001.6836

October 2021 – September 2022 (NSSC3 Year 1):

• Laplace, T.A., Goldblum, B.L., Brown, J.A., LeBlanc, G., Li, T., Manfredi, J.J. and Brubaker, E., “Modeling ionization quenching in organic scintillators”, Materials Advances (2022).
  https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00388K
• Mullen, A, Akindele, O, Bergevin, M, Bernstein, A, Dazeley, S. “Improvement in light collection of a photomultiplier tube using a wavelength-shifting plate.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1040 (10/2022). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900222005642
• Batchelder, J.C., Hurst, A.M., Basunia, M.S., “Nuclear Data Sheets for A=186”, 183, 1 (2022)
  https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2022.06.001
• A. Reddie and B.L. Goldblum, “Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold,” Journal of Peace Research, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221094734
• J. Tibbetts, B.L. Goldblum, C. Stewart, and A. Hashemizadeh, “Classification of Nuclear Reactor Operations using Spatial Importance and Multisensor Networks,” J. Nucl. Eng., 3(4), 243-262 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/jne3040014
• D.L. Bleuel, S.G. Anderson, L.A. Bernstein, J.A. Brown, J.A. Caggiano, B.L. Goldblum, J.M. Gordon, J.M. Hall, K.P. Harrig, M.S. Johnson, T.A. Laplace, R.A. Marsh, M.E. Montague, A. Ratkiewicz, B. Rusnak, C.A. Velsko, “The 40Ar(d,p)41Ar cross section between 3-7 MeV,” Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 110509 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110509

Peer Reviewed Publications for NSSC2:

October 2020 – September 2021 (NSSC2 Year 5):

• Nguyen LQ, Gabella G, Goldblum BL, Laplace TA, Carlson JS, Brubaker E, Feng PL. “Boron-loaded organic glass scintillators.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 2020 Nov 30:164898.
• Frame, P. W., & Frame, E. A. (2021). A History of the Radiation Warning Sign. Health Physics, 120(3), 296-300.
• Vo, H. T., Still, E. K., Kabel, J., Auguste, R., Schreiber, D., Chou, P., & Hosemann, P. (2021). Development of Microscale Bicrystal Tensile Testing for Strength Measurement of Oxidized Grain Boundaries of Alloy 600 Exposed to PWR Environments. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 141197.
• Vo, H. T., Anderoglu, O., Hosemann, P., & Maloy, S. A. (2021). The effects of microstructures and radiation damage on the deformation behavior of a HT-9 alloy using microtensile testing. Materials Characterization, 174, 110972.
• Drnovšek, A., Vo, H. T., de Figueiredo, M. R., Kolozsvári, S., Hosemann, P., & Franz, R. (2021). High temperature fracture toughness of single-layer CrAlN and CrAlSiN hard coatings. Surface and Coatings Technology, 409, 126909.

• Chen, J., Dang, K., Vo, H. T., Hosemann, P., & Fensin, S. J. (2021). Associating GB characteristics with its sink efficiency in absorbing Frank loops in Cu. Scripta Materialia, 192, 61-66.
• Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Extraction of radium and actinium with Pb resin and Rose Bengal”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021
• Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Batch and column studies of radium, actinium, thorium and protactinium on CL resin in nitric acid, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid”, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2021
• Kmak, KN, Shaughnessy, DA and Vujic, J, “Measurement of the 230Th(p,2n)229Pa and 230Th(p,3n)228Pa reaction cross sections from 14.1 to 16.9 MeV”, Physics Review C, 2021

• G. Gabella et al., “Neutron Response of the EJ-254 Boron-Loaded Plastic Scintillator,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2020.3041215.
• T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum,, J.E. Bevins, D.L. Bleuel, E. Bourret, J.A. Brown, E.J. Callaghan, J.S. Carlson, P.L. Feng, G. Gabella, K.P. Harrig, J.J. Manfredi, C. Moore, F. Moretti, M. Shinner, A. Sweet and Z.W. Sweger, “Comparative scintillation performance of EJ-309, EJ-276, and a novel organic glass,” Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 15, November 2020
• S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration ) (Fernando Torales-Acosta) “Measurement of isolated photon-hadron correlations in √sNN = 5.02 TeV pp and p-Pb collisions,” Phys. Rev. C 102, 044908 – Published 19 October 2020.
• A.M.Hurst, L.A.Bernstein, T.Kawano, A.M.Lewis, K.Song, “The Baghdad Atlas: A relational database of inelastic neutron-scattering data” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 995, 11 April 2021, 165095
• H. T. Vo, K.Q. Dang, F. Teng, M. Schneider, B. Eftink, L. Capolungo, S.A. Maloy, J.D. Tucker, P. Hosemann.“Deformation Twinning Versus Slip in a Ni-based Alloy, Containing Ni2Cr-type, Pt2Mo-Structured Precipitates” Acta Materialia. 2021

• A. Cackett, H. T. Vo, J. Lim, A. Bushby, P. Hosemann, C. Hardie, ”Effects of Radiation Damage and Precipitate Distribution on Micro-Pillar Compression Testing of Irradiated CuCrZr” Acta Materialia. 2021
• H. T. Vo, E. K. Still, K. Lam, A. Drnovšek, L. Capolungo, S. A. Maloy, P. Chou, and Peter Hosemann. ”Experimental methodology and theoretical framework in describing constrained plastic flow of FCC microscale tensile specimens.” Materials Science and Engineering: A 799 (2021): 140124
• Straub, M. D.; Ouellette, E. T.; Boreen, M. A.; Branson, J. A.; Ditter, A.; Kilcoyne, A. L. D.; Lohrey, T. D.; Marcus, M. A.; Paley, M.; Ramirez, J.; Shuh, D. K.; Minasian, S. G.; Arnold, J. “Thorium Amidates Function as Single-Source Molecular Precursors for Thorium Dioxide.” Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 4954-4957.
• Straub, M. D.; Moreau, L. M.; Qiao, Y.; Ouellette, E. T.; Boreen, M. A.; Lohrey, T. D.; Settineri, N. S.; Hohloch, S.; Booth, C. H.; Minasian, S. G.; Arnold, J. “Amidinate Supporting Ligands Influence Molecularity in Formation of Uranium Nitrides.” Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 6672-6679.
• A. Galindo-Tellez, K. Keefe, E. Adamek, E. Brubaker, B. Crow, R. Dorrill, A. Druetzler, C.J. Felix, N. Kaneshige, J.G. Learned, J.J. Manfredi, K. Nishimura, B. Pinto Souza, D. Schoen and M. Sweany. “Design and calibration of an optically segmented single volume scatter camera for neutron imaging.” Journal of Instrumentation, 16 (April 2021).

• T. Genda, K. Knight, Z.R. Dai, E. Balboni, B.L. Goldblum, P. Hosemann, “Iron-rich microstructure records of high temperature multi-component silicate melt behavior in nuclear fallout,” Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 237, 106700 (2021).
• T.A. Laplace, B.L. Goldblum, J.J. Manfredi, J.A. Brown, D.L. Bleuel, C.A. Brand, G. Gabella, J. Gordon, E. Brubaker, “Simultaneous measurement of organic scintillator response to carbon and proton recoils,” Phys. Rev. C 104, 014609 (2021).
• J Hecla, K Knecht, D Gunter, A Haefner, D Hellfeld, THY Joshi, A Moran, V Negut, R Pavlovsky, K Vetter, “Polaris-LAMP: Multi-modal 3D Image Reconstruction with a Commercial Gamma-ray Imager”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 09/2021 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9528363

October 2019 – September 2020 (NSSC2 Year 4):