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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
Thursday, September 29, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Harbor
Session Chair:
Kristel Ghoos (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Daniela Ene (SCK CEN)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Radiation Protection and the Design of the Shielding Envelope at the MINERVA Facility
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Daniela Ene (SCK CEN), Yurdunaz Celik (SCK CEN), Adrian Fabich (SCK CEN), Alexey Stankovskiy (SCK CEN)
Paper
Radiation Field due to Beam Losses and Back Streaming in the Proton Beam Handling Room of the MINERVA Full Power Facility
1:40–2:05PM PDT
Yurdunaz Celik (SCK CEN), Willem Leysen (SCK CEN), Daniela Ene (SCK CEN), Alexey Stankovskiy (SCK CEN), Gert Van den Eynde (SCK CEN)
Shielding Calculations with the Unstructured Mesh Model of the ORNL's Second Target Station
2:05–2:30PM PDT
Lukas Zavorka (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Analysis of the Preliminary Bunker Shielding Design with a Mix of Populated and Unpopulated Neutron Beamlines at the Spallation Neutron Source Second Target Station
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL), Paul Mueller (ORNL), Kumar Mohindroo (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Shielding Analyses for SNS Accelerator Power Upgrade
2:55–3:20PM PDT
I. Popova (ORNL), F. X. Gallmeier (ORNL)
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