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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.
Technical Session|Special Topics
Monday, August 21, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Dupont
Session Chair:
Elia Merzari
Alternate Chair:
Caleb S. Brooks
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Building a Multiscale Framework: An Overview of the NEAMS Thermal-Hydraulics Integrated Research Project
3:30–3:50PM EDT
Elia Merzari (Penn State), Arsen Iskhakov (NCSU), Igor Bolotnov (NCSU), Nam Dinh (NCSU), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
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NEAMS IRP Challenge Problem 1: Flexible Modeling for Heat Transfer for Applications in Advanced Reactors
3:50–4:10PM EDT
Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU), Arsen S. Iskhakov (NCSU), Tri Nguyen (Penn State), Cheng-Kai Tai (NCSU), Ralph Wiser (MIT), Emilio Baglietto (MIT), Nam Dinh (NCSU), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
NEAMS IRP Challenge Problem 2: Thermal Striping of Reactor Internals
4:10–4:30PM EDT
Emilio Baglietto (MIT), John Acierno (Penn State), Annalisa Manera (Univ. Michigan), Quynh M. Nguyen (Univ. Michigan), Victor Petrov (Univ. Michigan), Monica Pham (MIT), Yu-Jou Wang (MIT), Yue Jin (MIT), Jinyong Feng (MIT), Wayne Strasser (Liberty Univ.), Dillon Shaver (ANL), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
NEAMS IRP Challenge Problem 3: Mixing in Large Enclosures and Thermal Stratification
4:30–4:50PM EDT
A. Manera (Univ. Michigan), A.S. Iskhakov (NCSU), V.C. Leite (Penn State), Jiaxin Mao (Univ. Michigan), C. Tai (NCSU), V. Vishwakarma (Univ. Michigan), R. Wiser (MIT), E. Baglietto (MIT), I.A. Bolotnov (NCSU), N.T. Dinh (NCSU), Y. Hassan (TAMU), V. Petrov (Univ. Michigan), E. Merzari (Penn State)
Challenge Problem 4: Building a Flexible Multiscale Framework for Core Modeling
4:50–5:10PM EDT
Yassin Hassan (TAMU), Craig Menezes (TAMU), David Reger (Penn State), Adam Kraus (Penn State), Elia Merzari (Penn State)
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