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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Kentucky
Session Chair:
Jason Hou (NCSU)
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Massimiliano Fratoni (UC Berkeley)
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On-the-Fly Energy Group Condensation for Whole-Core Multiphysics Simulations
10:00–10:20AM EDT
Aaron M. Graham (ORNL), Kang-Seog Kim (ORNL)
Paper
Fixed-Source Diffusion Solver in PARCS
10:20–10:40AM EDT
Oscar Lastres (Purdue), Yunlin Xu (Purdue)
Application of Equivalent Dancoff Factor Method for Resonance Calculation of Double Heterogeneous Fuel
10:40–11:00AM EDT
Akio Yamamoto (Nagoya Univ.), Tomohiro Endo (Nagoya Univ.)
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Direct Multi-Group Cross-Sections via NJOY+OJOYU for PWR and FLiBe-MSR Reactor Systems
11:00–11:20AM EDT
Meng-Jen (Vince) Wang (Univ. Utah), Michael Simpson (Univ. Utah), Glenn E. Sjoden (Univ. Utah)
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