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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
Tuesday, September 27, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Harbor
Session Chair:
Anna Ferrari (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Alternate Chair:
Kyle Grammer (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Rui Qiu (Tsinghua Univ.)
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Radiation Protection at Laser-Driven Accelerator Facilities: The ELI Beamlines Case
1:15–1:40PM PDT
A. Cimmino (ELI Beamlines), R. Versaci (ELI Beamlines), V. Olšovcová (ELI Beamlines), D. Horváth (ELI Beamlines), B. Lefebvre (ELI Beamlines), V. Stránský (ELI Beamlines), R. Truneček (ELI Beamlines)
Paper
Radiation Field Characterization and Shielding Assessment at Ultra-Intense Laser Facilities
1:40–2:05PM PDT
Anna Ferrari (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Josefine Metzkes-Ng (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Maria Molodtsova (Technische Univ. Dresden), Stephan Kraft (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Thomas E. Cowan (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
Review of Radiation Protection Studies on the X-Ray Generated from Laser-Solid Interactions
2:05–2:30PM PDT
Rui Qiu (Tsinghua Univ.), Shuoyang Wei (Tsinghua Univ.), Honghu Song (Tsinghua Univ.), Hui Zhang (Tsinghua Univ.), Junli Li (Tsinghua Univ.)
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An Active Bremsstrahlung Spectrometer for Bremsstrahlung Photons Generated from Ultra-Short and Ultra-High Laser Facilities
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Honghu Song (Tsinghua Univ.), Rui Qiu (Tsinghua Univ.), Hui Zhang (Tsinghua Univ.), Zhen Wu (Tsinghua Univ.), Junli Li (Tsinghua Univ.)
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