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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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9:30–11:10AM EST
Ossabaw
Session Chair: Michael Marler|Alternate Chair: Billy Wilson
Conference 2/3
Session Chair: Douglas Batche|Alternate Chair: Jeff Walton
Talbot
Session Chair: Bert Barnes|Alternate Chair: Charles Lease
1:00–2:40PM EST
Session Chair: Thomas S. Dean
Session Chair: Patrick J. Berry
Session Chair: Russ Coon|Alternate Chair: Dan Randolph
3:20–5:00PM EST
Panel|Amelia 3/4
Session Chair: Gregg Ludlam|Alternate Chair: Patrick J. Berry
8:00–9:40AM EST
Session Chair: Juan Cortez|Alternate Chair: Jim Caery
Session Chair: Ray Dean|Alternate Chair: Lisa Marshall
10:10–11:50AM EST
Session Chair: Gerry Hildebrandt|Alternate Chair: Michael Marler
Session Chair: Michael Johnson|Alternate Chair: Bert Barnes
1:10–2:50PM EST
Session Chair: Jim Caery|Alternate Chair: Tom Dean
Session Chair: Lisa Marshall|Alternate Chair: Douglas Batche
Session Chair: Alan Lowe|Alternate Chair: Russ Coon
Session Chair: Dan Randolph|Alternate Chair: Gregg Ludlam
Session Chair: Dave Helling|Alternate Chair: Juan Cortez
Session Chair: Jeff Walton|Alternate Chair: Ray Dean
10:00–11:40AM EST
Session Chair: Charles Lease|Alternate Chair: Gerry Hildebrandt
Session Chair: Billy Wilson|Alternate Chair: Michael Johnson
