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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Marriott 10
Session Chair:
Simon M. Pimblott
Alternate Chair:
Jake R. Quincey
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A Simple Modeling for Gas Release During Annealing of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel
10:00–10:20AM EDT
J. Losfeld (CEA), L. Desgranges (CEA), Y. Pontillon (CEA), G. Baldinozzi (CNRS)
Paper
Critical Analysis of Force Balance Approach for Departure Diameter Prediction with High-Speed Photography
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Juan Pérez (Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez), Silvina Cancelos (Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
Pressurized Water Reactor Control Rod Ejection Analysis Using PARCS, RELAP5-3D, and BISON for High Burnup Fuel
10:40–11:00AM EDT
Isabelle Lindsay (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Mason Fox (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Seokbin Seo (INL), Ryan T. Sweet (INL), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Modeling and Measurement of Axial Gas Transport in Nuclear Fuels
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Chiara Genoni (INL), Kyle A. Gamble (INL), Fabiola Cappia (INL), Chase E. Christen (INL), Seongtae Kwon (INL), Kaustubh K. Bawane (INL)
BISON-Informed Whole Core TRISO Fuel Performance Modeling
11:20–11:40AM EDT
James B. Tompkins (Radiant Industries), Sebastian Schunert (INL), Roger Chin (Radiant Industries), Wen Jiang (INL), Ben Betzler (Radiant Industries)
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