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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
Thursday, August 24, 2023|10:45AM–12:25PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel)
Alternate Chair:
Alberto Ghione (CEA)
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Neural Networks and Functional Alignment Based Bayesian Inverse UQ Using FEBA Reflood Experiment Data
10:45–11:05AM EDT
Ziyu Xie (NCSU), Xu Wu (NCSU)
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Uncertainty Analysis in the OECD/NEA Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Project
11:05–11:25AM EDT
Kaiyue Zeng (NINE), Marco Cherubini (NINE), Alessandro Petruzzi (NINE), Stephen M. Bajorek (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel ENGIE), Martina Adorni (OECD NEA)
State of the Art for Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of Pressurised Thermal Shock Scenarios
11:25–11:45AM EDT
Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institute), Pavel Kral (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Ladislav Vyskocil (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Vladislav Pistora (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Richard Trewin (Framatome), Yuliia Filonova (IPP-CENTRE), Vladislav Filonov (IPP-CENTRE), Lukasz Sokolowski (Kiwa Technical Consulting), Jürgen Hartung (GRS), Szabolcs Szávai (Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research), Andrej Prošek (Jožef Stefan Institute), Jerome Roy (IRSN), Markku Puustinen (LUT Univ.), Maksym Vyshemirskyi (State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety), Richard Bass (Oakridge Consulting Int'l), Paul Williams (Oakridge Consulting Int'l), Takeshi Takeda (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Carlos Cueto-Felgueroso (Tecnatom)
Evaluation of Uncertainties in Thermal-Hydraulic Analyses of PTS for the APAL European Project
11:45AM–12:05PM EDT
Richard Trewin (Framatome), Andrej Prošek (Jožef Stefan Institute), Pavel Kral (Nuclear Research Institute Rez), Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institute), Gregory Perret (Paul Scherrer Institute), Jürgen Hartung (GRS), Inés Mateos Canals (GRS), Jerome Roy (IRSN), Vladislav Filonov (IPP-Centre), Yuliia Filonova (IPP-Centre)
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