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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|New and Advanced Reactors
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Embassy
Session Chair:
Ferry Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group)
Alternate Chair:
Rui Hu (ANL)
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NekRS CFD Simulations of Interassembly Flow in Sodium Fast Reactors
3:30–3:50PM EDT
A.J. Novak (ANL), C. Bourdot Dutra (Penn State), D. Shaver (ANL), E. Merzari (Penn State)
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Flow Decomposition and Reconstruction Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for a Porous Blocked Subchannel in a 61-Pin Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Craig Menezes (TAMU), Matthew Kinsky (TAMU), Trevor Melsheimer (TAMU), Dalton Pyle (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
RANS Simulations of Jet Flow and Thermal Stratification Phenomena in the TALL-3D Facility Subjected to Different Flow Regimes
4:10–4:30PM EDT
M.M.M.D. Hussain (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), H.J. Uitslag-Doolaard (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), F. Roelofs (Nuclear Research & Consultancy Group), X. Huang (Univ. Sheffield), S. He (Univ. Sheffield)
Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Mixing in Wire-Wrapped Fuel Assembly of Liquid Lead-Bismuth-Cooled Fast Reactor
4:30–4:50PM EDT
Sipeng Wang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Qindong Zhang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Bao-Wen Yang (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer)
Presentation Video (Visible to Attendees) — Pre-recorded presentation of Sipeng Wang
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