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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 RPD
Monday, June 14, 2021|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Session Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU)
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Alternate Chair:
Massimiliano Fratoni
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Ashley Jiminian (ANS)
This is a standing RPD session with papers on all reactor analysis topics of contemporary interest.
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Multiphysics Benchmark Results from Moltres
Sun Myung Park (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Paper
Cerberus: A MOOSE-Based Application for Solving the SP3 Equations
Roberto E. Fairhurst Agosta (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kathryn D. Huff (Univ. of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Verification of the Multi-Group Generation Capability of FRENDY Nuclear Data Processing Code for Recent Nuclear Data through Comparison of One-group Reaction Rates
Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Kenichi Tada (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Go Chiba (Hokkaido Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
Large-Scale Whole-Core Monte Carlo Cycle Depletion Employing GPUs
Kyung Min Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Namjae Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Lee (Seoul Nat'l Univ.), Han Gyu Joo (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
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Validation of SCALE 6.2.4 and ENDF/B-VII.1 Data Libraries for Nuclide Inventory Analysis in PWR Used Fuel
Germina Ilas (ORNL), Briana Hiscox (ORNL)
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