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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.
To add or remove a session from your itinerary, please check the circle to the left of its title.
10:00–11:40AM MDT
Sweeney B|Fission Surface Power/Nuclear Electric Propulsion
Session Chair: Andrew Zillmer|Alternate Chair: Aditya Shivprasad
Coronado/DeVargas|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Session Chair: Christopher (Britton) Reynolds|Alternate Chair: Randy Bell
Panel|Sweeney F|Radioisotope Power Systems
Session Chair: Harsh Desai|Alternate Chair: Harsh Desai
Sweeney A|Radioisotope Power Systems
Session Chair: Nick R. Wozniak|Alternate Chairs: Nick R. Wozniak, Lauren Nelson
1:00–2:40PM MDT
Panel|Sweeney F|Fission Surface Power/Nuclear Electric Propulsion
Session Chair: Lindsay Kaldon|Alternate Chair: Vedant Mehta
Sweeney B|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Session Chair: Minghui Chen|Alternate Chair: Katey Lenox
Session Chair: Stacey L. Eaton|Alternate Chair: Ari Foley
3:15–4:55PM MDT
Session Chair: N. Dianne B. Ezell|Alternate Chair: Scott Wilson
Session Chair: Erofil Kardoulaki|Alternate Chair: Scarlett W. Paisner
Panel|Sweeney F|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Session Chairs: Lee S. Mason, Mohamed El-Genk
Session Chair: Gabrielle Lee|Alternate Chairs: Gabrielle Lee, Timothy Schriener
Session Chair: Michael C. Miller|Alternate Chair: Georgette Alexander-Morrison
Session Chair: Lindsey Holmes|Alternate Chair: Lindsey Holmes
Session Chair: Kate Kelly|Alternate Chair: Holly R. Trellue
Session Chair: Jake R. Matthews|Alternate Chair: Robert Wingo
Session Chair: Randy Bell|Alternate Chair: Andrew Zillmer
Session Chair: Katey Lenox|Alternate Chair: Mohamed El-Genk
Session Chair: Elizabeth Bluhm|Alternate Chair: Adam Parkison
Session Chair: Mikaela Blood|Alternate Chair: Mikaela Blood
Session Chair: Timothy Schriener|Alternate Chair: Randy Bell
Session Chair: Duane Barber|Alternate Chair: Duane Barber
Session Chair: Scott Wilson|Alternate Chair: N. Dianne B. Ezell
Session Chair: Timothy Reuter
Session Chair: Mikaela Blood|Alternate Chair: Katey Lenox
Session Chair: Nick Wozniak|Alternate Chair: Joe Giglio
11:40AM–1:00PM MDT
Sweeney CDE|Poster Session
Session Chair: Holly R. Trellue|Alternate Chair: Holly R. Trellue
Session Chair: Aditya Shivprasad|Alternate Chair: Caitlin A. Kohnert
Coronado/DeVargas|Nuclear Thermal Propulsion|Cosponsored by Radioisotope Power Systems
Session Chair: Stacey L. Eaton|Alternate Chair: Holly R. Trellue
Session Chair: Roberta Mulford|Alternate Chair: Amanda Robertson
Session Chair: Georgette Alexander-Morrison|Alternate Chair: Aditya Shivprasad
Session Chair: Doug Burns|Alternate Chair: Doug Burns
Session Chair: Tim Tinsley|Alternate Chairs: Tim Tinsley, Tim Gregory
