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ANS Student Conference 2025
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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 MSTD|Cosponsored by ANSTD
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Banyan A
Session Chair:
Steven B. Krivit
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Yasuhiro Iwamura
According to the best understanding so far, Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENRs) are the result of neutron-based electroweak interactions. They are a class of nuclear reactions that occur at or near room temperature based on Standard Model physics and can occur in condensed matter under mild macrophysical conditions. They differ from nuclear fission or fusion which rely on strong-force interactions. Unlike fission reactions, low-energy nuclear reactions do not produce nuclear chain reactions. Among novel concepts in nuclear energy research, LENRs are unique in that laboratory experiments have demonstrated the generation of net energy. The experimental research demonstrates the production of nuclear-scale heat and changes to atomic numbers and atomic masses of reactants.
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Material Analysis of Anomalous Heat Experiments Using Hydrogen-Filled Nanometallic Composites
3:15–3:35PM PDT
Yasuhiro Iwamura (Tohoku Univ.), Takehiko Itoh (Tohoku Univ.), Shinobu Yamauchi (Clean Planet), Tomonori Takahashi (Clean Planet)
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions in Highly Driven Light Water Electrolysis: From Circumstantial Evidence to Unambiguous Nuclear Signatures
3:35–3:55PM PDT
Ankit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Raviraj Nehra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), Raj Ganesh Pala (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur), K.P. Rajeev (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Peculiar Phenomena Observed in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactors
3:55–4:15PM PDT
Bin-Juine Huang (Nat'l Taiwan Normal Univ.), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices), Po-Hsien Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Jong-Fu Yeh (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ming-Li Tso (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ying-Hung Liu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Litu Wu (Advanced Thermal Devices), Ching-Kang Huang (Advanced Thermal Devices), I-Fee Chen (Advanced Thermal Devices), Che-Hao Lin (Advanced Thermal Devices), T.R. Tseng (Mastek Technologies), Fang-Wei Kang (Mastek Technologies), Tan-Feng Tsai (Mastek Technologies), Kuan-Che Lan (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Yi-Tung Chen (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas), Mou-Yung Liao (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Li Xu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Sih-Li Chen (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Robert William Greenyer (Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project)
Linear Flow Network Analysis of Resonator in Low-Energy Nuclear Reactor
4:15–4:35PM PDT
Mou-Yung Liao (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Bin-Juine Huang (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Li Xu (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Sih-Li Chen (Nat'l Taiwan Univ.), Yu-Hsiang Pan (Advanced Thermal Devices), Kuan-Che Lan (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.), Yi-Tung Chen (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas)
Hot Hydrogen Testing of Uranium Nitride Cermet for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
4:35–4:55PM PDT
Benjamin Larson (Brigham Young Univ.), Jhonathan Rosales (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Brian Taylor (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Jason Reynolds (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Nathan Jerred (INL), Jamelle Williams (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), Arne Croell (Univ. Alabama, Huntsville), Martin Volz (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
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