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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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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.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine A
Session Chair:
Joshua R. Turner
Alternate Chair:
Sven O. Bader
Session Organizer:
Tim P. Tinsley
A session aimed to bring out the ideas around how to improve nuclear sustainability. The latest in comparing the benefits and disbenefits of a closed fuel cycle through a sustainability lens (e.g., LCA assessments): Nuclear fuel as a mine of strategically important minerals - Latest research into methods of extracting useful materials from spent nuclear fuel (PGM recovery, isotope extraction), Scientific and technology developments that unlock major sustainability benefits in (Based on NEA strategic objectives for advanced reprocessing): Reduced capital costs through smaller plant footprint (process intensification, e.g., centrifugal contactors), Increase proliferation resistance, Reduced waste generation and lower environmental impact, Pu multi-recycling, Safer processes.
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