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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.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session
Thursday, July 20, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|301D
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Alternate Chair:
Pradeep Ramuhalli
Session Organizer:
Vaibhav Yadav
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Multi-Fidelity Machine Learning Approach to Material Modeling for Digital Twin Framework
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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Components of Intelligent Digital Twin Framework for Complex Nuclear System
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), James Daniell (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Md Nazmus Sakib (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Dinesh Kumar (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Syed Alam (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Applications of APR1400 MMIS Virtualization Simulator for the NPP's Performance
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Sungjin Lee (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Ho Sun Ryu (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Min-seok Kim (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.), Yong Sik Kim (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.)
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Identification of Human Errors in Nuclear Power Plants
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Bhavya Reddy Kotla (San Jose State), Ezgi Gursel (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Katy Daniels (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Anahita Khojandi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Jamie Baalis Coble (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Vivek Agarwal (INL), Vaibhav Yadav (INL), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Mahboubeh Madadi (San Jose State)
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