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ANS Student Conference 2025
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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|Radioisotope Power Systems
Wednesday, May 8, 2024|3:15–4:55PM MDT|Sweeney A
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Duane Barber
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SiGe RTG Unicouple Testing Capabilities
3:15–3:40PM MDT
Eric Poliquin (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Kevin Smith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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Assessment of Space Radiation Influence on Bi2Te3-based Thermoelectric Generator Embedded in a Korean Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
3:40–4:05PM MDT
Sunjin Kim (KAERI), Jong-Bum Kim (KAERI), Kwang-Jae Son (KAERI), Jin-Joo Kim (KAERI), Jin Kim (KAERI), Yongrok Jeong (KAERI), Jintae Hong (KAERI)
Pulse-Reverse Plating of Nanocomposite Diffusion Barrier Coatings for Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators
4:05–4:30PM MDT
Hannah Hilton-Tapp (Univ. Leicester), Jayan Patel (Univ. Leicester), David Weston (Univ. Leicester), Karl Ryder (Univ. Leicester), Ramy Mesalam (Univ. Leicester)
Recent Advancements in the Development, Manufacturability and Lifetime Testing of GPHS Heritage-like SiGe Unicouples Using SiGe and SiMo Materials Prepared by Spark Plasma Synthesis
4:30–4:55PM MDT
Jonathan Pierce (Johns Hopkins APL), Jake Ballard (Johns Hopkins APL), Richard Ung (Johns Hopkins APL), Tim Holgate (Johns Hopkins APL), Rasdip Singh (Soal Technologies), Mousumi Mitra (Univ. Virginia), Scott Misture (Alfred Univ.), Joseph Poon (Univ. Virginia), Timothy Erickson (Johns Hopkins APL), Paul Ostdiek (Johns Hopkins APL), Rama Venkatasubramanian (Johns Hopkins APL)
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