Kiel S Holliday

Group Leader, Chemistry of Nuclear Materials
Materials Science Division
Email: holliday7@llnl.gov
Phone: +19254224074

Education

  • Ph.D., Radiochemistry, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2009
  • B.S., Chemistry, California State University, San Marcos

Background

Kiel completed a two year post-doc with the Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung in Karlsruhe, Germany, before joining the Lab in 2011. Kiel has experience in solid state synthesis and characterization of actinide materials by various X-ray and electron techniques. He is also an expert in time resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy of europium and curium. Kiel currently performs research in nuclear forensics, assists with radiochemistry experiments at NIF, and is pursuing the next generation of phosphors with the Critical Materials Institute.

Teaching and Professional Experience

Staff Scientist
October 2013–Present
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Various projects related to pre- and post-detonation nuclear forensics. Examples include identifying process signatures, characterizing samples of interest, examining fallout debris, and measuring nuclear data at the National Ignition Facility.

Post-doctoral Scholar
October 2011–October 2013
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Various projects related to pre- and post-detonation nuclear forensics. Examples include identifying process signatures, characterizing samples of interest, examining fallout debris, and measuring nuclear data at the National Ignition Facility.

Post-doctoral Scholar
October 2009–September 2011
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Germany
Site selective time-resolved laser spectroscopy of trivalent actinides and lanthanides with phosphate mineral phases. Supervise and mentor students and post-graduates in research projects.

Teaching Assistant
August 2005–September 2009
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Teach lab classes including general chemistry I and II, organic chemistry I and II, and chemistry for nurses I and II. Responsibilities include communicating ideas and topics of each lab, maintaining laboratory safety, and grading lab reports.

Part-time Instructor
July 2008–August 2008
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Honors College, SAGE Program
Design and organize curriculum for course in Nuclear Science. Provide instruction on curriculum during three week course for gifted high school students. Supervise student learning and activities.

Honors, Awards, and Organizations

  • Ceramics International
  • Hydrometallurgy
  • IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
  • International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • Radiochimica Acta

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals Articles

  1. Holliday, K.S.; Siekhaus, W.; Nelson, A.J. "Measurement of the Auger Parameter and Wagner Plot for Uranium Compounds." Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 31 (2013) 031401.
  2. Holliday, Kiel; Dardenne, Kathy; Walther, Clemens; Stumpf, Thorsten. "The incorporation of europium into apatite: a new explanation." Radiochimica Acta 101 (2013) 267-272.
  3. Holliday, Kiel; Finkeldei, Sarah; Neumeier, Stefan; Walther, Clemens; Bosbach, Dirk; Stumpf, Thorsten. "TRLFS of Eu3+ and Cm3+ doped Zr2La2O7: A comparison of defect fluorite to pyrochlore structures." Journal of Nuclear Materials 433 (2013) 479-485.
  4. Holliday, Kiel; Handley-Sidhu, Stephanie; Dardenne, Kathy; Renshaw, Joanna; Macaskie, Lynne; Walther, Clemens; Stumpf, Thorsten. "A new incorporation mechanism for trivalent actinides into bio-apatite: a TRLFS and EXAFS study." Langmuir 28 (2012) 3845-3851.
  5. Holliday, Kiel; Chagneau, Aurélie; Schmidt, Moritz; Claret, Francis; Schäfer, Thorsten; Stumpf, Thorsten. "Discriminating factors affecting incorporation: Comparison of the fate of Eu3+/Cm3+ in the Sr carbonate/sulfate system." Dalton Transactions 41 (2012) 3642-3647, selected as "hot article".
  6. Holliday, Kiel; Babelot, Carole; Walther, Clemens; Neumeier, Stefan; Bosbach, Dirk; Stumpf, Thorsten. "Site-selective time resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy of Eu and Cm doped LaPO4." Radiochimica Acta 100 (2012) 189-195.
  7. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Cerefice, Gary; Czerwinski, Ken. "Dissolution behavior of plutonium containing zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuel." Journal of Nuclear Materials 422 (2012) 109-115.
  8. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Cerefice, Gary; Czerwinski, Ken. "Environmental dissolution behavior of uranium containing zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuel." Radiochimica Acta 99 (2011) 799-806.
  9. Holliday, Kiel; Smith, Nicholas; Hartmann, Thomas; Cerefice, Gary; Czerwinski, Ken. "Acidic dissolution behavior of uranium containing zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuel." Annals of Nuclear Energy 38 (2011) 2404-2409.
  10. Tang, M; Holliday, K.S.; Valdez, J.A.; Uberuaga, B.P.; Dickerson, P.O.; Dickerson, R.M.; Wang, Y.; Czerwinski, K.R.; Sickafus, K.E. "Microstructural evolution in uranium-bearing delta-phase oxides A6U1O12 (A = Y, Gd, Ho, Yb, and Lu)" Journal of Nuclear Materisals 407 (2010) 44-47.
  11. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Mulcahy, Sean; Czerwinski, Ken. "Synthesis and characterization of zirconia magnesia inert matrix fuels: plutonium studies." Journal of Nuclear Materials 402 (2010) 81-86.
  12. Tang, M; Holliday, K.S.; Jiang, C.; Valdez, J.A.; Uberuaga, B.P.; Dickerson, P.O.; Dickerson, R.M.; Wang, Y.; Czerwinski, K.R.; Sickafus, K.E. "Order-to-disorder phase transformation in ion irradiated uranium-bearing delta-phase oxides RE6U1O12 (RE=Y, Gd, Ho, Yb, and Lu)." Journal of Solid State Chemistry 183 (2010) 844-848.
  13. Xu, P.; Holliday, K.; Czerwinski, K.; Nino, J. "Dissolution behavior of MgO-pyrochlore composites in acidic solutions." Journal of Nuclear Materials 394 (2009) 39-45.
  14. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Poineau, Frederic; Czerwinski, Ken. "Synthesis and characterization of zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuels: uranium homolog studies." Journal of Nuclear Materials 393 (2009) 224-229.
  15. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Czerwinski, Ken. "Synthesis and characterization of zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuels: cerium homolog studies." Journal of Nuclear Materials 392 (2009) 487-493.
  16. Tang, M; Holliday, K.S.; Valdez, J.A.; Uberuaga, B.P.; Dickerson, P.O.; Dickerson, R.M.; Wang, Y.; Czerwinski, K.; Sickafus, K.E. "Radiation damage effects in uranium bearing delta-phase oxide Y6U1O12." Journal of Nuclear Materials 389 (2009) 497-499.
  17. Schmidt, Michael H.; Ellison, Ian; Holliday, Kiel; Kubin, Martin; Trujillo, Francisco. "Selective inhibition of aragonite growth by citrate and isocitrate at moderate supersaturations, as measured by an optical-microscope flow-cell assay." Journal of Crystal Growth 310 (2008) 804-815.

Other Publications

  1. Holliday, K.S.; Stumpf, Th. "Using time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy as an internal probe for the phase changes in zirconium oxide." in Environmental Radiochemical Analysis IV; Warwick, P. Ed.; Royal Society of Chemistry, 2011; ISBN: 978-1-84973-155-3 pp 30-39.
  2. Holliday, K; "Zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuel and waste form: synthesis, characterization, and chemical performance in an advanced nuclear fuel cycle" Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, August 2009.

Presentations

  1. Holliday, K.S., Gharibyan, N., Gray, L.W., Hutcheon, I.D., Knight, K.B., Moody, K.J., Robel, M., Shaughnessy, D.A., "A Sampling of Nuclear Forensics Projects at Lawrence Livermore National Lab" Actinides, Karlsruhe, Germany. July 21-26, (2013).
  2. Holliday, K.S., Plaue, J., Siekhaus, W., Nelson, A.J. "XPS Study of Uranium Oxides with Various Precipitating Agents" AVS International Symposium, Tampa, FL USA. October 28 – November 2, (2012).
  3. Holliday, K.S., Siekhaus, W., Nelson, A.J. "Using the Auger Parameter for Characterization of Uranium Compounds" Plutonium Futures, Cambridge, UK. July 16 – 20 (2012).
  4. Holliday, Kiel, Chagneau, Aurélie, Schmidt, Moritz, Claret, Francis, Schäfer, Thorsten, Stumpf, Thorsten. "Discriminating Factors Affecting Incorporation: Comparison of the Fate of Eu3+/Cm3+ in the Sr Carbonate/Sulfate System" Goldschmidt Conference, Montréal, Canada. June 25 – 29 (2012).
  5. Holliday, Kiel S., Siekhaus, W., Nelson, A.J., "Measurement of the Auger Parameter of Uranium Compounds" 34th Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis, PNNL, Richland, WA USA. June 19 – 22 (2012).
  6. Holliday, K., Chagneau, A., Schmidt, M., Schäfer, T., Stumpf, T. "Time-resolved Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Eu3+ and Cm3+ in Carbonate and Sulfate Mineral Phases" GDCh-Wissenschaftsforum Chemie, Bremen, Germany. September 4-7, (2011).
  7. Holliday, Kiel; Handley-Sidhu, Stephanie; Renshaw, Jo; Mackaskie, Lynn; Walther, Clemens; Stumpf, Thorsten. "A new incorporation mechanism for trivalent actinides in bio-apatite." Goldschmidt Conference, Prague, Czech. August 15-20, (2011).
  8. Holliday, Kiel; Stumpf, Thorsten. "A new incorporation mechanism for Eu(III) and Cm(III) in hydroxyapatite" Rare Earth Research Conference, Santa Fe, NM, USA. June 19-23, (2011).
  9. Holliday, Kiel. "Time resolved laser spectroscopy of Cm and Eu doped LaPO4" HGF Trilateral Coordination Meeting, Jülich, Germany. November 23-24, (2010).
  10. Holliday, Kiel. "A new incorporation mechanism for Eu in hydroxyapatite: a TRLFS study" Terrae Rarae Conference, Bayreuth, Germany. October 6-8, (2010).
  11. Holliday, Kiel. "Using time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy as an internal probe for the phase changes in zirconium oxide" Environmental Radiochemical Analysis 11 Conference, Chester, England. September 15-17, (2010).
  12. Holliday, Kiel. "Using time-resolved laser fluorescence to probe apatite containing europium and curium" Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA. June 14-18, (2010).
  13. Silva, Chinthaka; Holliday, Kiel; Czwerwinski, Ken. "Solid State Synthesis of Neptunium Mononitride at Low Temperatures" Actinides Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA. July 12-17, (2009).
  14. Holliday, Kiel; Czerwinski, Ken. "Zirconia-Magnesia Inert Matrix Fuel: Plutonium Studies" Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC) VIII Conference, Kona, HI, USA. April 5-10, (2009).
  15. Ming Tang, James A. Valdez, Blas Uberuaga, Yongqiang Wang, Kurt E Sickafus, Kiel Holliday and Ken Czerwinski "Irradiation-induced Microstructural Evolution in Delta Phase Oxide Compounds: Y6U1O12 and Y6W1O12, and Yb6W1O12" Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. Dec. 1-5, (2008).
  16. Holliday, Kiel S.; Czerwinski, Ken R. "Plutonium Containing Inert Matrix Fuel: Synthesis and Characterization." 42nd Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 23-27 (2008).
  17. Holliday, Kiel S.; Czerwinski, Ken. "Dissolution behavior of actinide containing inert matrix fuel." 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 17-21 (2008).
  18. Holliday, Kiel S.; Czerwinski, Ken. "Characterization of actinide containing inert matrix fuels." 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA. August 17-21 (2008).
  19. Holliday, Kiel; Czerwinski, Ken. "Dissolution behavior of actinide containing inert matrix fuels." Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. Nov. 26-29, (2007).
  20. Holliday, Kiel; Czerwinski, Ken. "Zirconia-magnesia inert matrix fuel in reactor, reprocessing, and repository environments" Migration 2007 Conference, Munich, Germany. September 2-6, (2007).
  21. Holliday, Kiel S.; Czerwinski, Ken R. "Characterization of actinide containing zirconia-magnesia based inert matrix fuel." 62nd Northwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Boise, ID, USA. June 17-20 (2007).
  22. Ken Czerwinski, Kiel Holliday, G. W. Chinthaka Silva and Thomas Hartmann. "Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Reactor Fuels." Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. Nov. 27-Dec. 1, (2006).
  23. Holliday, Kiel; Hartmann, Thomas; Czerwinski, Ken. "Characterization of zirconium-magnesium ceramics for inert matrix fuel." Inert Matrix Fuels Workshop, Park City, UT, USA. October 10-12 (2006).
  24. Holliday, Kiel S.; Hartmann, Thomas; Czerwinski, Ken. "Zirconium-magnesium oxides as inert matrix fuels." ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA. March 26-30, (2006).
  25. Wright, Amber D.; Holliday, Kiel S.; Silva, G. W. Chinthaka; Gong, Cynthia-May S.; Hartmann, Thomas; Czerwinski, Ken. "Using radiochemistry to couple nuclear fuel development with separations and repository behavior for the advanced fuel cycle." ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA. March 26-30, (2006).
  26. Schmidt, Michael H.; Holliday, Kiel; Garland, Quenten; Ellison, Ian. "Studies of selective inhibition of aragonite and calcite growth by citrate and dissolved iron oxides." ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA. March 13-17, (2005).
  27. Holliday, Kiel; Schmidt, Michael H. "Using a flow cell to study the competitive growth rates of calcite and aragonite." ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. March 28-April 1, (2004).