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Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy
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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
Tuesday, September 27, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech)
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Alternate Chair:
Sandra Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Novel Bremsstrahlung Converter Designs for Ultra High Dose Rate Radiotherapy Systems
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Andrew Rosenstrom (Georgia Tech), Mario Santana Leitner (SLAC), Sayed Rokni (SLAC), Shaheen Dewji (Georgia Tech), Billy W. Loo Jr. (Stanford Univ.)
Paper
MLEM Neutron Spectra Unfolding for Radiotherapy Photon Beams Using Bonner Sphere Spectrometer: A Simulation Study.
1:40–2:05PM PDT
S. Oliver (Univ. Politècnica de València), S. Morató (Univ. Politècnica de València), B. Juste (Univ. Politècnica de València), R. Miró (Univ. Politècnica de València), G. Verdu (Univ. Politècnica de València), N. Tejedor (Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe de València), J. Pérez-Calatayud (Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Radiofísica e Instrumentación Nuclear en Medicina)
Monte Carlo Calculations in Different Tumor Phenotypes for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Using Auger Electron Emitting Radionuclides
2:05–2:30PM PDT
Jorge Borbinha (Instituto Superior Técnico), Durval Costa (Fundação Champalimaud), Paulo Ferreira (Fundação Champalimaud), Pedro Vaz (Instituto Superior Técnico), Salvatore D. Maria (Instituto Superior Técnico)
Development of Improved Dosimetry Standards for FLASH Radiotherapy: The UHDpulse Project
2:30–2:55PM PDT
A. Cimmino (ELI Beamlines), A. Schüller (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), S. Heinrich (Institut Curie), C. Fouillade (Institut Curie), A. Subiel (National Physical Laboratory), L. De Marzi (Institut Curie), F. Romano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), P. Peier (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), M. Trachsel (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), C. Fleta (Centro Nacional de Microelectronica), R. Kranzer (Physikalisch-Technische Werkstaetten-Freiburg), M. Caresana (Politecnico di Milano), S. Salvador (Normandie Univ.), S. Busold (Varian Medical Systems), A. Schönfeld (Sun Nuclear Corp.), M. McEwen (National Research Council of Canada), F. Gomez (Univ. Santiago de Compostela), J. Šolc (Czech Metrology Institute), C. Bailat (Centre Hospitalier Univ. Vaudois), J. Jakubek (ADVACAM), J. Pawelke (Technische Univ. Dresden), M. Borghesi (Queen's Univ. Belfast), R-P. Kapsch (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), A. Knyziak (Central Office of Measures), V. Olšovcová (ELI Beamlines), C. Kottler (Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie), D. Poppinga (Physikalisch-Technische Werkstaetten-Freiburg), I. Ambrožová (Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS), C-S. Schmitzer (EBG MedAustron), S. Rossomme (IBA Dosimetry), M-C. Vozenin (Centre Hospitalier Univ. Vaudois)
External Dose Coefficients: Then, Now, and In the Future
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Nolan Hertel (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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