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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.
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Cosponsored by RPD|Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Panel|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chairs: John Kelly, Erhard W. Koehler
Monday, June 14, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Nadia S. Glucksberg
Monday, June 14, 2021|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Panel|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chairs: Gail H. Marcus, Steven M. Mirsky
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Gerard P. van Noordennen
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Panel|Sponsored by Executive Panels|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Andrew Smith
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Panel|Sponsored by YMG|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chairs: Leigh Winfrey, Shirly Rodriguez
Session Chair: Lisa M. Marshall
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|2:15–4:00PM EDT
Panel|Sponsored by Executive Panels|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Shirly Rodriguez
Panel|Session Chair: James E. Baciak
Panel|Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King
Panel|Session Chair: W. Neal Mann
Panel|Session Chair: Craig Piercy
Panel|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Andrew Smith
Panel|Session Chair: Shaun Anderson
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Steven P. Nesbit
Panel|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Shirly Rodriguez
Panel|Session Chair: Kenneth J. Aupperle
Session Chair: Kaushik Banerjee
Session Chair: Jinsuo Zhang
Panel|Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Chair: Jen Shafer
Panel|Session Chair: Sven O. Bader
Panel|Cosponsored by NNPD|Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Chair: Stephanie Bruffey
Session Chair: Christina Leggett
Sponsored by RPSD|Cosponsored by IRD, NNPD|Session Chair: Fatma Abdelrahman
Session Chair: James M. Bowen
Panel|Session Chair: James K. Jewell
Panel|Session Chair: Nicholas A. Gentile
Session Chair: Robert E. Grove
Session Chair: Madicken Munk
Session Chair: Fidelma Giulia Di Lemma
Session Chair: Kallie E. Metzger
Session Chair: Simon M. Pimblott
Session Chair: J. Rory Kennedy
Session Chair: Troy Munro
Panel|Session Chair: Deborah A. Hill
Session Chair: Lon E. Paulson
Panel|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by NCSD|Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Panel|Session Chair: Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski
Panel|Session Chair: Douglas G. Bowen
Session Chair: Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski
Session Chair: Michael A. Fendler
Panel|Session Chair: David S. Grabaskas
Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Panel|Session Chair: Robert J. Budnitz
Session Chair: Stefani Buster
Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by NNPD|Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Panel|Sponsored by DESD|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chairs: John Kelly, Erhard W. Koehler
Panel|Session Chair: James W. Behrens
Session Chair: N. Dianne B. Ezell
Session Chair: Erin Wehlage
Panel|Session Chair: Piyush Sabharwall
Session Chair: Piyush Sabharwall
Panel|Sponsored by DESD|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chairs: Gail H. Marcus, Steven M. Mirsky
Panel|Session Chair: Jacopo Buongiorno
Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Panel|Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Sponsored by ANSTD|Cosponsored by RPD|Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King
Panel|Cosponsored by NCSD|Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Sponsored by THD|Cosponsored by RPD|Session Chair: Trevor Howard
Panel|Session Chair: Alisha Kasam-Griffith
Session Chair: Kristin Stolte
Session Chair: Jason Hearne
Session Chair: Blair Bromley
Session Chair: Benjamin R. Betzler
Cosponsored by IRD, NNPD|Session Chair: Fatma Abdelrahman
Session Chair: Dominic Napolitano
Session Chair: Andrew Rosenstrom
Session Chair: Yuefeng Qiu
Session Chair: Mihai Diaconeasa
Session Chair: Jun Wang
Panel|Session Chair: W. David Pointer
Panel|Session Chair: Ling Zou
Cosponsored by RPD|Session Chair: Trevor Howard
Session Chair: Sang J. Kim
Session Chair: Robert P. Martin
Session Chair: Jinyong Feng
Session Chair: Shanbin Shi
Session Chair: Elia Merzari
Panel|Session Chair: Matthew J. Jasica
Panel|Session Chair: Eric G. Meyer
Panel|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chairs: Leigh Winfrey, Shirly Rodriguez
