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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.
To add or remove a session from your itinerary, please check the circle to the left of its title.
1:00–2:45PM PDT
Panel|El Capitan A|Sponsored by DESD
Session Chair: Jim Byrne|Alternate Chair: Miles van Noordennen
El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD
Session Chair: Daniel Cole|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Avila A|Sponsored by IRD
Session Chair: Kenan Unlu|Alternate Chair: Jung Rim
Panel|Avila B|Sponsored by MCD
Session Chair: Tara M. Pandya|Alternate Chair: Madicken Munk
Malibu|Sponsored by MSTD
Session Chair: Annabelle Le Coq|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Capistrano A|Sponsored by NISD
Session Chairs: Aaron S. Epiney, Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Panel|San Simeon A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: John H. Jackson|Alternate Chair: Piyush Sabharwall
Panel|Carmel|Sponsored by RPD
Session Chair: Dimitrios Cokinos|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
San Simeon B|Sponsored by RPSD
Session Chair: Lawrence H. Heilbronn|Alternate Chair: Amir A. Bahadori
3:15–5:00PM PDT
Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD
Session Chair: Benjamin B. Cipiti
Session Chair: Vivek Agarwal|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Session Chair: Hyoung K. Lee|Alternate Chair: Igor Jovanovic
Session Chair: Jake Quincey|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
San Simeon A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: John Downing|Alternate Chair: Temi Adeyeye
Capistrano A|Sponsored by OPD
Session Chair: Andrew G. Sowder|Alternate Chair: W. Neal Mann
Carmel|Sponsored by RPD
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni|Alternate Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Chair: Adam Hecht|Alternate Chair: Amir A. Bahadori
Panel|Avila B|Sponsored by Young Members Group
Session Chair: Kelsey Amundson|Alternate Chair: Julianne McCallum
10:15AM–12:00PM PDT
Session Chair: Kaushik Banerjee|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD|Cosponsored by NNPD
Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli|Alternate Chair: Fan Zhang
Panel|Avila A|Sponsored by IRD
Session Chair: Brenden J. Heidrich|Alternate Chair: Kenan Unlu
Avila B|Sponsored by MCD
Session Chair: Nick Gentile|Alternate Chair: Tara Pandya
Session Chair: J. Rory Kennedy|Alternate Chair: Kenneth J. Geelhood
Panel|Capistrano A|Sponsored by NISD
Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu|Alternate Chair: Vaibhav Yadav
Session Chair: Yasir Arafat|Alternate Chair: Abdalla Abou-Jaoude
El Capitan A|Sponsored by ETWDD
Session Chair: Drew Thomas
Panel|Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD
Session Chair: Jinsuo Zhang|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Panel|El Capitan B|Sponsored by HFICD
Session Chair: Edward L. Quinn|Alternate Chair: Richard T. Wood
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert|Alternate Chair: Nick Gentile
Avila A|Sponsored by NNPD
Session Chair: R. A. Borrelli|Alternate Chair: Cornelius Milmoe
Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye|Alternate Chair: Tejaswini Vaidya
Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Panel|San Simeon B|Sponsored by Young Members Group
Session Chair: Julianne McCallum
Avila A|Sponsored by ANSTD
Session Chair: Jeffrey C. King|Alternate Chair: Richard H. Howard
Session Chair: Andrew E. Thomas|Alternate Chair: James E. Baciak
Session Chair: Chaithanya Balumuru|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Ronald L. Boring|Alternate Chair: Jonghyun Kim
Session Chair: Alex Robinson|Alternate Chair: Jeremey Sweezy
Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney|Alternate Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Session Chair: Haiyan Zhao|Alternate Chair: Temi Adeyeye
Session Chair: Stefano Terlizzi|Alternate Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
8:00–9:45AM PDT
Panel|Santa Monica|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by ETWDD
Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Simon Pimblott|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Tejaswini Vaidya|Alternate Chair: Christina Leggett
Session Chair: Fan Zhang
Session Chair: Aaron Olson|Alternate Chair: Stefano Terlizzi
Session Chair: Askin Guler Yigitoglu|Alternate Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Session Chair: W. Neal Mann|Alternate Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Moussa Mahgerefteh|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Vaibhav Yadav|Alternate Chair: N. Dianne Ezell
Session Chair: Madicken Munk|Alternate Chair: Alex Robinson
Session Chair: Richard Howard|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye|Alternate Chair: Tim Crook
Session Chair: Brenden Heidrich
Session Chair: Colby Jensen|Alternate Chair: Troy Munro
Session Chair: Aman Gupta|Alternate Chair: Gale Hauck
