Addie Lupercio, a Ph.D. student in the Advanced Materials Laboratory, recently presented a virtual talk at the International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. Her talk discussed obtaining a statistically relevant biaxial flexural strength of advanced ceramics. The work was performed on pure and doped cerium dioxide specimens, commonly used as a surrogate nuclear fuel, using a ball-on-ring fixture. Addie’s work demonstrated the feasibility of this method which can then be expanded to uranium dioxide, a traditional nuclear fuel used in light water reactors.