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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.
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10:40AM–12:20PM EDT
Session Chair: Jaakko Leppanen
Session Chair: Rodolfo Ferrer
Session Chair: Thomas M. Evans
Session Chair: Kendra Long
1:20–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Kostadin Ivanov
Session Chair: Richard Vasques
Session Chair: Tara Pandya
3:30–5:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Aaron Olson
Session Chair: David Griesheimer
Session Chair: Todd Palmer
Session Chair: Thomas Brunner
5:30–7:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Katherine Royston
Session Chair: Yaqi Wang
Session Chair: William Wieselquist
Session Chair: Jean Ragusa
Session Chair: Adam Nelson
Session Chair: Joshua Hykes
Session Chairs: Nicholas A. Gentile, Mathew Cleveland
Session Chair: Terry Haut
Session Chair: James Warsa
Session Chair: Raffi Yessayan
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert
Session Chair: Erin Davis
Session Chair: Jae Chang
Session Chair: Alex Long
Session Chair: Maria Avramova
8:30–10:10AM EDT
Session Chair: Scott Palmtag
Session Chair: Ryan McClarren
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil Prinja
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Brendan Kochunas
Session Chair: Zeyun Wu
Session Chairs: Imre Pázsit, Anil K. Prinja
Session Chair: Xu Wu
1:20–2:10PM EDT
Session Chair: Changho Lee
Session Chair: Patrick Brantley
Session Chair: Hany Abdel-Khalik
2:10–3:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Christophe Demaziere
Session Chair: Won Sik Yang
Session Chair: Agustin Abarca
Session Chair: Christophe Demazière
Session Chair: Cory Hauck
Session Chair: Bojan Petrovic
Session Chair: Benjamin Betzler
Session Chair: HyeongKae Park
Session Chair: Andrew Holcomb
Session Chair: Jason Hou
Session Chair: Robert Nourgaliev
Session Chair: Simone Santandrea
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