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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.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE)
Technical Session
Thursday, June 16, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Huntington B/C
Session Chair:
Jason Trelewicz (Stony Brook Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL)
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Nuclear Data Experiments for Fusion: Challenges, Successes, and Future Needs
Mark Gilbert (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
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Small Specimen Test Technique Development for Materials Qualification Using Fusion Neutron Source
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Yao Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.), Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Mario Walter (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Emile Gaganidze (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Jarir Aktaa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Shuhei Nogami (Tohoku University), Mitsuru Ohata (Osaka Univ.), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), David Andres (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Henk Nolles (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yiqiang Wang (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Sehila Maria Gonzalez de Vicente (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
Specimen Size Effects on Creep Properties of F82H Reduced-Activation Ferritic Steel
Takuya Nagasaka (National Institute of Fusion Science), Jingjie Shen (National Institute for Fusion Science), Masami Ando (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Taichiro Kato (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Takashi Nozawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology), Hiroyasu Tanigawa (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)
Flexural Testing of Neutron Irradiated Tungsten Materials by Three-Point Bend
Nathan C. Reid (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Lauren M. Garrison (ORNL), Trevor Marchhart (Penn State), Jean Paul Allain (Penn State)
Influence of Fatigue Precracking and Specimen Size on the Master Curve Fracture Toughness Measurements of EUROFER97 and F82H Steels
Xiang Chen (ORNL), Marta Serrano (CIEMAT), Rebeca Hernández (CIEMAT), Mikhail A. Sokolov (ORNL)
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