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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
Monday, September 26, 2022|1:10–3:15PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Douglas Di Julio (European Spallation Source)
Alternate Chair:
Stephane Bourganel (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Boron-Lined Proportional Counter Sensitivity Determined by Simulation
1:10–1:35PM PDT
Stephane Bourganel (CEA), Laurence Pangault-Granier (CEA), Aly Elayeb (PHOTONIS Nuclear Instrumentation)
Paper
Pulsed Radiation Monitoring Using Ionisation Chamber with Dedicated Integrated Circuit at CERN Antimatter-Facility
1:35–2:00PM PDT
Sarath Kundumattathil Mohanan (CERN), Hamza Boukabache (CERN), Vassili Cruchet (CERN), Daniel Perrin (CERN)
Presented by Stefan Roesler (CERN)
Radon Detection on a Spanish Natural Gas Well Using Electrets and Lucas Cell
2:00–2:25PM PDT
A. Noverques (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Juste (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Mora (GD Energy Systems), A. Arribas (GD Energy Systems), G. Verdu (Politechnic Univ. Valencia)
Optimization of a GaN Microstructured Thermal Neutron Detector Geometry Using MCNP
2:25–2:50PM PDT
Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Micheal Pfeifer (Kansas State), Bryce Davidson (Kansas State), Sanchit Sharma (Kansas State), Keith Huddleston (Kansas State), Nathanael Simerl (Kansas State), Douglas S. McGregor (Kansas State), Walter McNeil (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
Measurement of Response Functions of Enriched Lithium-6 CLYC Scintillator for 1.2 MeV, 5.0 MeV and 14.8 MeV Neutrons
2:50–3:15PM PDT
So Kamada (National Maritime Research Institute), Masayuki Hagiwara (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
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