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Colin Judge: Testing structural materials in Idaho’s newest hot cell facility
Idaho National Laboratory’s newest facility—the Sample Preparation Laboratory (SPL)—sits across the road from the Hot Fuel Examination Facility (HFEF), which started operating in 1975. SPL will host the first new hot cells at INL’s Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) in 50 years, giving INL researchers and partners new flexibility to test the structural properties of irradiated materials fresh from the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) or from a partner’s facility.
Materials meant to withstand extreme conditions in fission or fusion power plants must be tested under similar conditions and pushed past their breaking points so performance and limitations can be understood and improved. Once irradiated, materials samples can be cut down to size in SPL and packaged for testing in other facilities at INL or other national laboratories, commercial labs, or universities. But they can also be subjected to extreme thermal or corrosive conditions and mechanical testing right in SPL, explains Colin Judge, who, as INL’s division director for nuclear materials performance, oversees SPL and other facilities at the MFC.
SPL won’t go “hot” until January 2026, but Judge spoke with NN staff writer Susan Gallier about its capabilities as his team was moving instruments into the new facility.
Dr. Joseph Hendrie has been a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) since 1956, at which time he joined the Nuclear Installations Safety and the Fuel Energy Divisions.
Dr. Hendrie worked some 45 years in the fields of nuclear reactor safety and research and development of energy technologies. He received his B.S. at Case Institute of Technology, now Case Western Reserve and his Ph.D. in Physics at Columbia University.
He began his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1955 where he directed the design of the High Flux Beam Reactor. He became Head of the Engineering Division of the Laboratory’s Department of Applied Science and later, Chairman of that Department (1975-77). From 1972-74 Dr. Hendrie was Deputy Director for Technical Review of the AEC’s Directorate of Licensing. He also served for six years on the AEC’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and was Chairman in 1970.
He has been the U.S. Representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Senior Advisory Group for Reactor Safety Codes and Guides (1974-79). In 1977 he was appointed Chairman and Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and served a four-year term that included the Three Mile Island accident.
He was a Director of Houston Industries, Inc., Houston Lighting & Power Company, and Entergy Operations Inc. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and California. Dr. Hendrie is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was a member of the Energy Engineering Board of the National Research Council (1986-90).
He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1970, the Order of Leopold II, Rank of Commander, from Baudoin, King of the Belgians in 1982, the George C. Laurence Pioneering Award of ANS in 1998, and the Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Joint Award from ANS and the Nuclear Energy Institute in 2004.
Read Nuclear News from July 1984 for more on Joseph.
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