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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.
General Chair:
Shaheen Dewji (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)
General Cochair:
Irina Popova (Nuclear Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Honorary Chairs:
Nolan Hertel (Georgia Tech)
Bernadette Kirk (ORNL Ret.)
Enrico Sartori (NEA, Ret.)
Program Chair:
Pedro Vaz (Principal Researcher, Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Program Cochairs:
Jeff Favorite (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Thomas Miller (ORNL)
Rui Qiu (Tsinghua University)
Exhibits and Sponsorship Committee Members:
Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech)
Bernadette Kirk (ORNL, ret.)
Workshops Chair:
Joel Risner (ORNL)
Student Chairs:
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech)
Kathryn Bales (UT-San Antonio)
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Stefano Agosteo (Politecnico Milano, Italy)
Miltos Alamaniotis (UT-San Antonio, USA)
Peter Angelo (Y-12, USA)
John Bess (INL, USA)
Jean-François Bottollier Depois (IRSN, France)
David Broggio (IRSN, France)
Zhi Chen (USTC, China)
Douglas Di Julio (ESS, Sweden)
Cheikh Diop (CEA Saclay, France)
Eric Dumonteil (IRSN, France)
Adolfo Esposito (LNF, Italy)
Michael Fensin (LANL, USA)
Michele Ferenci (Penn State, USA)
Alfredo Ferrari (CERN, Switzerland)
Brian Franke (Sandia, USA)
Maria Grazia Pia (INFN Genova, Italy)
Rob Hayes (NC State, USA)
Jason Haverkamp (KAPL, USA)
Ser Gi Hong (KHU, South Korea)
Tatiana Ivanova (OCED NEA, France)
Jong Woon Kim (KAERI, South Korea)
Kyo-Youn Kim (KAERI, South Korea)
Soon Kim (LLNL, USA)
Ivo Kodeli (IJS, Sloveny)
Chikara Konno (JAEA, Japan)
Michal Kostal (CV Saclay, France)
Sigrid Kozielski (ESS, Sweden)
Joel Kulesza (LANL, USA)
Cheol-Woo Lee (KAERI, South Korea)
Hee-Seock Lee (PAL, South Korea)
Yi-Kang Lee (CEA Saclay, France)
Huanwen Lv (NPI, China)
Fadhel Malouch (CEA Saclay, France)
Davide Mancusi (CEA Saclay, France)
Vladimir Mares (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany)
John Mattingly (NCSU, USA)
Kuo Men (NCI, China)
Gunter Muhrer (ESS, Sweden)
Wayne Newhauser (LSU, USA)
Pedro Ortega (Spain)
Chang Je Park (SJU, South Korea)
Pedro Manual Peixoto Teles (IST, Portugal)
Odile Petit (CEA Saclay, France)
Igor Remec (ORNL, USA)
Michael Rising (LANL, USA)
José Rodenas Diago (UPV, Spain)
Stefan Roesler (CERN, Switzerland)
Thomas Saller (LANL, USA)
Francesc Salvat (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Toshiya Sanami (KEK, Japan)
Valentina Santoro (ESS, Sweden)
Arkady Serikov (KIT, Germany)
Hyung Jin Shim (SNU, South Korea)
Chang Ho Shin (HYU, South Korea)
Prakash Shrestha (LANL, USA)
Marco Silari (CERN, Switzerland)
Youwu Su (IMP, China)
Jean-Christophe Sublet (IAEA, Austria)
Michele Sutton-Ferenci (Penn State, USA)
Francois Trompier (IRSN, France)
Shuichi Tsuda (OECD NEA, France)
Yoshitomo Uwamino (RIKEN, Japan)
Ali Haghighat (Virginia Tech, USA)
Gumersindo Verdu (UPV, Spain)
Vasilis Vlachoudis (CERN, Switzerland)
Qinbing Wang (IHEP, China)
Yican Wu (Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, China)
Xiaobin Xia (SINAP, China)
X. George Xu (RPI, USA)
Demetri Zafiropoulos (LNL, Italy)
Luca Zanini (ESS, Sweden)
