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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|Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Joshua Kaizer (USNRC)
Session Organizers:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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Verification of Transient Phenomena in RELAP5-3D: Part 1 Vessel Boiloff
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Robert P. Martin (BWXT Advanced Technologies)
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Verification of Transient Phenomena in RELAP5-3D: Part 2 Turbomachinery
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Robert P. Martin (BWXT Advanced Technologies), Michael S. Bradbury (Information Systems Laboratories)
Two-Phase Transient Modeling of a Large Scale RCCS with RELAP5-3D
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Zhiee Jhia Ooi (ANL), Qiuping Lv (ANL), Rui Hu (ANL), Matthew Jasica (ANL), Darius Lisowski (ANL)
Assessment of the Choked Flow Model of RELAP5 for the Application of Inverse Quantification Methods
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Jordi Freixa (Univ. Politècnica Catalunya), Víctor Martínez-Quiroga (Univ. Politècnica Catalunya), Gregory Perret (Paul Scherrer Institute)
A Methodology to Evaluate the Impact of Physical Distortions on Systems' Code Assessment
12:05–12:25PM EDT
Marcos G. Ortiz (Information Systems Laboratories)
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