| Leah Squires | | https://bios.inl.gov/Lists/Researcher/DisplayOverrideForm.aspx?ID=427 | Leah Squires | | | | | | | <div class="ExternalClass83EF9EA83E2B4203ADD286726E2A3515"><p>PhD in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007<br> BS in Chemistry, University of Cincinnati, 2002</p></div> | | <div class="ExternalClassCD7AE476859F4666948006135C51A609"><p><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000">Isolation and purification of actinide metals,
including neptunium and americium, for use in the fabrication of transmutation
fuels.<span> </span></font><font color="#000000">These metals are currently available
only as oxides or in metal mixtures, not as pure metals. Processes must be continually
designed and developed to isolate them from the various metal and oxide mixes
and to reduce the oxides to metals.</font></span></p></div> | | <div class="ExternalClassD76E2AB978E54958BB0C32D5B25CEB3A"><p><strong>Squires, LN</strong>; King, J; Fielding, R; Lessing,P. <em>Isolation of High Purity Americium Metal via Distillation</em> J. Nucl. Mater., 500 (2018), pp. 26-32.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Squires, LN</strong>; Lessing, P. <em>Direct chemical reduction of neptunium oxide to neptunium metal using calcium and calcium chloride </em> J. Nucl. Mater., 471 (2016), pp. 65-68.</p><p> </p><p>Burkes, Douglas E.; Kennedy, Rory; Hartmann, Thomas; <strong>Squires, Leah N</strong>. <em>Phase Characteristics of a U-30Pu-5Am-3Np-20Zr Metallic Alloy Containing Rare Earths</em>. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion (2009), 30(4), 309-317.</p><p> </p><p>Goldcamp, Michael J.; Edison, Sara E.; <strong>Squires, Leah N</strong>.; Rosa, Dell T.; Vowels, Neil K.; Coker, Nathan L.; Bauer, Jeanette A. Krause; Baldwin, Michael J. <em>Structural and Spectroscopic Studies of Nickel(II) Complexes with a Library of Bis(oxime)amine-Containing Ligands</em>. Inorganic Chemistry (2003), 42(3), 717-728. </p></div> | Analytical Chemistry | https://bios.inl.gov/BioPhotos/LeahSquires.jpg | | Scientist | Fuel Fabrication and Nuclear Material Management | | Analytical Laboratory | Leah.Squires@inl.gov | <div class="ExternalClassC21A561403274420B9A72D5F829B2E17"><p>World Nuclear University Summer Institute Fellow (2009)</p><p>Radiochemistry Society Presidential Award (2008)</p><p>HPLC Travel Award (2006)</p><p>University of Illinois Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Literature Seminar (2003)</p><p>Phi Beta Kappa (2002)</p><p>Magna Cum Laude (2002)</p></div> | Micro X-ray diffractometer, X-ray diffractometer, hot uniaxial press furnace |