Thank you CAS Communication for highlighting David’s great work in UAB News!
UAB News Highlights David’s Undergraduate Research!
New Accepted Paper on Remote Monitoring of Nitric Acid and Temperature!
Congratulations to David Russel and the entire CoXTL Team on the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Remote Sensing of Nitric Acid and Temperature via Design of Experiments, Chemometrics, and Raman Spectroscopy” in ACS Omega!
David Receives Second Place Awarded at SciX 2024!
Congratulations to David Russell, the second-place winner in the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS) Student Poster competition as a part of the SciX 2024 Conference held in Raleigh, NC, from October 20–25, 2024. Great work, David!
UAB News Highlights David’s Coryell Award!
Thank you CAS Communication for highlighting David’s great work in UAB News!
New Paper on Uranium Quantification by Raman Spectroscopy!
Congratulations to Luke Sadergaski and the entire team for the recent acceptance of a new paper, “Leveraging Design of Experiments to Build Chemometric Models for the Quantification of Uranium(VI) and HNO3 by Raman Spectroscopy” in Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering!
We Hosted a Booth at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit!
Our Group Hexavalent Actinide Separation: A Single-Step, Proliferation-Resistant Approach to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing project hosted a booth at the 2024 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Dallas, TX this week.
David Earns First Place at the UAB Fall Expo!
Congratulations to David who placed 1st at the 2023 Fall UAB Undergraduate Research Expo in the Physical and Applied Science category! Thank you, David, for doing a fantastic job representing the Burns Research Group!
David Presented a UAB Fall Expo!
David Russell presented at the 2023 Fall UAB Undergraduate Research Expo on Wednesday. Thank you, David, for doing a fantastic job representing the Burns Research Group!
The UAB Expo celebrates excellence in research, creative activity, and scholarship by showcasing the academic endeavors of undergraduate students.
David is a senior in the Department of Chemistry pursuing his BS in Chemistry. He is also double majoring in Public Health and pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental and Occupational Health.
UAB News Highlighted Our Selected ARPA-E CURIE Proposal!
Thank you to UAB News for highlighting our recent ARPA-E CURIE program proposal, Group Hexavalent Actinide Separation: A Single-Step, Proliferation-Resistant Approach to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, which was has been selected for funding.
Our ARPA-E CURIE Proposal was Selected!
In collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, our project, Group Hexavalent Actinide Separation: A Single-Step, Proliferation-Resistant Approach to Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, has been selected for funding by the ARPA-E CURIE program. This project aims to develop a single-step technology to recycle used nuclear fuel (UNF) that can recover the bulk of uranium (U) and transuranics (TRU) as the first step after dissolution in nitric acid. We will work toward the recycling of UNF through the co-crystallization of oxidized TRU with uranyl nitrate hexahydrate. This single-step, group actinide separation will (1) significantly reduce the volume of light-water reactor high-level radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, (2) provide an appropriate fuel feedstock by combining U/TRU in a single product stream, (3) reduce fission product content in the product stream to <0.1%, and (4) provide compatibility with online monitoring technologies.
