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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.

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Award Recipients

2024

Steven A. Arndt
Christopher M. Crane (Posthumously)
Donald R. Eggett
Stephen E. Kuczynski
Elizabeth S. Sooby
Grace Stanke
Matthew D. Wargon

Jeffrey C. King
Arnold Lumsdaine
Corey K. McDaniel
Walid A. Metwally
Catherine M. Prat
Joshua L. Vajda

2023

Thomas A. Fanning
H.E. Mohamed Al Hammadi
Rebecca L. Steinman
W.A. “Art” Wharton, III
Steven P. Nesbit

Richard A. Meserve
Amir Afzali
Kairos Power LLC
Jeffrey S. Merrifield
Peter N. Swift
Maria G. Korsnick

2022

Amanda M. Bachmann
Sven O. Bader
Amir A. Bahadori
Lake H. Barrett
James W. Behrens
Jacopo Buongiorno
Nathan A. Carstens
Hans David Gougar
H. M. “Hash” Hashemian
Matthew Jeffrey Jasica
N. Prasad Kadambi
Lisa M. Marshall
Kathryn A. Mummah
Gene A. Nelson

2022

Armond Cohen
Andrew R. Griffith
Rafael M. Grossi and the International Atomic Energy Agency
Ukrainian Nuclear Workers

2021

Christina A. Back
Carol L. Berrigan
Daniel L. Churchman
Michael L. Corradini
Paul T. Dickman
Daniel J. Doran
James (Vince) V. Gilbert
Deborah Ann Hill
Alyse S. Huffman
Mark T. Peters

2020

ANS Young Members Group
Chairman Kristine L. Svinicki
Leah Spradley Parks
Prof. Dan Gabriel Cacuci
Hon. Rita Baranwal

2019

Steven L. Stamm
Eric P. Loewen
The Navigating Nuclear Subject Matter Expert Team

2019

Sen. James E. Risch
U.S. Senator for Idaho

2018

French Local Section of the American Nuclear Society (SFANS)

2017

Mr. Joshua Freed
Ms. Rachel Pritzker
Ms. Vanice Perin
Mr. John Kotek
Dr. Nermin Uckan
Dr. Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Steve Arndt

2016

Darby S. Kimball
Stephen E. Kuczynski
Edward D. Kee
Nicholas Thompson
Daniel J. Curtis

2015

Adolf Garcia
Mimi Limbach
Peter Lyons
Raymond Klann
Kai Vetter
Jack Brenizer
Kathryn McCarthy
Sherry Bernhoft
Richard Reister
Jason Remer

2014

James W. Behrens
Bill Borchardt
Peter Caracappa
Harsh S. Desai
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar
Marvin S. Fertel
Sama Bibao y Leon
Michael Lineberry
Peter B. Lyons
Bob Penn
Amir Shakarami
Rachel Slaybaugh
Roger Tilbrook

2013

Leslie Barbour
Joyce Connery
William Corcoran
Eric Loewen
David Matthews
Michaele Brady Raap
Theodore Rockwell
Admiral Eugene P. Wilkinson

2012

Meredith J. Angwin
Srikumar Banerjee
Nuclear Engineering Department U. C. Berkeley
Jacques Bouchard
James O. Ellis Jr.
Benjamin Holtzman
Shreyans Kumar Jain
Sharon Kerrick
Salomon Levy
William D. Magwood IV
Brett D. Rampal
Howard C. Shaffer III
Kristine L. Svinicki

2011

Peter F. Caracappa
Michael L. Corradini
Jack DeVine
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar
Audeen W. Fentiman
Glenn R. George
Margaret E. Harding
N. Prasad Kadambi
Anil Kakodkar
Dale E. Klein
John R. McGaha
Jeffrey S. Merrifield
Charlotta E. Sanders
Glen E. Sjoden

2010

Virginia D. Cleary
Samuel J. Collins
Donald R. Hoffman
Ross F. Radel

2009

Candace C. Davison
Julie G. Ezold
Angelina S. Howard
Andrew C. Klein
Paul J. Turinsky
Lumin Wang

2008

Rodney M. Adams
D. Richard (Rip) Anderson
Earl Beckwith
Harry A. Bradley
Max W. Carbon
Gwyneth Cravens
Executive Director Search Committee
Alan E. Waltar
Richard Wilson

2007

Carol L. Berrigan
Center for Energy Workforce Development
Garry A. Harris
Kathryn A. McCarthy
William F. Naughton
Jaime Pahissa-Campa
Luis A. Reyes
ANS Student Sections Committee
ANS Young Members Group

2006

Robert D. Busch
Jeffrey Clay
Kevin Cook
Nils J. Diaz
Jonathan Epstein
Thomas J. Hirons
Peter B. Lyons
Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness (CNTA) & James M. (Mal) McKibben, Executive Director
Edward L. (Ted) Quinn
Kristine L. Svinicki
Loyd A. Wright

2005

Melvin R. Buckner
International Atomic Energy Agency & Director General Mohamed ElBaradei
Raymond H. Gabaldon
Andrew C. Klein
John & Muriel Landis
James F. Mallay
Harold F. McFarlane
Roger S. Reynolds
Stephen H. Shepherd
Kyle H. Turner

2004

Samim Anghaie
Herbert M. Fontecilla
John P. Gutteridge
Brian K. Hajek
Atambir S. Rao
Theodore Rockwell

2003

Robert W. Hess
Nuclear Energy Institute
Edward "Ted" L. Quinn
Jorge Spitalnik

2002

Eric A. Blocher
Joseph F. Colvin
Rolland A. Langley
William S. Minkler

2001

Donald R. Hoffman
John W. Landis

2000

East Carolinas Local Section
William D. Magwood IV
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ronald Packard
Emmy L.A. Roos
Mary Gerry White

1999

Peter V. Domenici
John E. Price
Thomas H. Row

1998

Hyman G. Rickover
Robert R. Seidel
United States Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program
Gerald Woodcock

1997

Philip Batt
John Graham
Brian K. Hajek
Andrew C. Kadak
James G. Toscas

1996

Edward D. Fuller
Stanley S. Hatcher
Masao Hori
Paul P.H. Wilson

1995

Guy A. Arlotto

1994

William E. Burchill
J. Jason Chao

1993

Paul Dozine
Herbert E. Hungerford
John W. Landis
Thomas F. Plunkett

1992

Neil L. Felmus

1991

Gregory R. Choppin
Nuclear Safety Journal
Sammuel Untermyer II

1990

James F. Schumar

1989

General Electric Company Los Alamos
National Laboratory

1988

Jacques Leclercq

1986

Ernest G. Silver

1984

Melvin Price

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