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Isotopes & Radiation
Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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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, May 10, 2022|4:00–6:00PM EDT|Vanda
Session Chair:
Lucas Rich (INL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Scott Wilson
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Progress on an Alternative Solvent Extraction Flowsheet for Separating Plutonium from Neptunium
Catherine Campbell (National Nuclear Laboratory), Michael J. Carrott (National Nuclear Laboratory), Chris J. Maher (National Nuclear Laboratory), Chris Mason (National Nuclear Laboratory), Rebecca Sanderson (National Nuclear Laboratory), Mark J. Sarsfield (National Nuclear Laboratory), Robin J. Taylor (National Nuclear Laboratory), Tim Tinsley (National Nuclear Laboratory), Dave Woodhead (National Nuclear Laboratory), Dan Whittaker (National Nuclear Laboratory)
Paper
Pu-238 Production Calculator and Estimation Tool in the Advanced Test Reactor
Demi Weaver (Angelo State Univ.), Andrew Zillmer (INL)
Progress on Pu-238 Production at Idaho National Laboratory From March 2021 to February 2022
Andrew Zillmer (INL), William Green (INL), Craig Tyler (INL), Justin Lower (INL), Jill Mitchell (INL), Brittany Grayson (INL), Erik Rosvall (INL), Austen Fradeneck (INL), Joshua Fishler (INL), David Reeder (INL), Ryan Marlow (INL), Mark Hill (INL), Paul O'Donnell (INL), Joshua Peterson-Droogh (INL), Richard Howard (INL)
Neutronic Safety Analysis of Pu-238 Production at Idaho National Laboratory
Jill Mitchell (INL), Brittany Grayson (INL), Joshua Peterson-Droogh (INL)
Optimisation of the Americium and Plutonium Purification by Extraction (AMPPEX) Process Flowsheet
Rebecca Sanderson (National Nuclear Laboratory), Mark Sarsfield (National Nuclear Laboratory), Chris Maher (National Nuclear Laboratory), Michael Carrott (National Nuclear Laboratory), Dan Whittaker (National Nuclear Laboratory), Billy Keywood (National Nuclear Laboratory), Chris Mason (National Nuclear Laboratory), Kerry Jackson (National Nuclear Laboratory), Chloe Edmondson (National Nuclear Laboratory), Catherine Needham (National Nuclear Laboratory), Joshua Holt (National Nuclear Laboratory), Jason Borwick (National Nuclear Laboratory), Keith Stephenson (European Space Agency)
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