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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|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT|Jasmine B
Session Chair:
Amanda S. Leong
Alternate Chair:
Praveen Kumar Thallapally
Session Organizer:
Steven P. Nesbit
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Research Process on Tritium Behavior in HTGR
1:00–1:20PM PDT
Zhou Ziling (Tsinghua Univ.), Feng Xie (Tsinghua Univ.)
Paper
Uncertainty Quantification for Pebble Bed Reactor Fuels Burnup Credit
1:20–1:40PM PDT
Jonathan Wing (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), G. Ivan Maldonado (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Gordon M. Petersen (INL), Robert A. Joseph (INL)
Sustainability of Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems Using INPRO Methodology
1:40–2:00PM PDT
Carolynn Scherer (IAEA), Nilormi Das (IAEA), Sera Jeon (IAEA), Gaye Sayin (IAEA)
A New Uranium-Plutonium Breed and Burn Fuel Cycle
2:00–2:20PM PDT
Neal Mann (Neal Mann and Assoc.), Mihai G.M. Pop (Areva College of Experts (Retired))
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Development of Cs Pollucite Ceramic Waste Form and Evaluation of Long-Term Chemical Durability
2:20–2:30PM PDT
Ga-Yeong Kim (Chungnam National Univ.), Ki-Rak Lee (KAERI), Jung-Hoon Choi (KAERI), Jae Hwan Yang (Chungnam National Univ.), Hwan-Seo Park (KAERI)
Influences of Iodine Separation and Capture in the Context of NO2-Based Voloxidation
2:30–2:40PM PDT
Katherine R. Johnson (ORNL), Allison T. Greaney (ORNL), Kathryn M. Peruski (ORNL), Chase Cobble (ORNL), Matthew Vick (ORNL), Joanna McFarlane (ORNL)
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