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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
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|1:30–3:10PM EDT|Gunston East/West
Session Chair:
Alessandro Del Nevo (ENEA)
Alternate Chair:
Megan Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Session Organizer:
Jun Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
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GOTHIC Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of the Passive Heat Removal Facility to Support the Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor Development
1:30–1:50PM EDT
M.E. Durse (Westinghouse Electric Co.), D.L. Wise (Westinghouse Electric Co.), J. Liao (Westinghouse Electric Co.), R.F. Wright (Westinghouse Electric Co.), C.A. Stansbury (Westinghouse Electric Co.), P. Ferroni (Westinghouse Electric Co.), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), A. Wimshurst (Frazer-Nash Consultancy)
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Numerical Analysis and Codes Qualification Based on SIRIO Experiments Within the PIACE Project
1:50–2:10PM EDT
P. Lorusso (ENEA), M. Tarantino (ENEA), F.S. Nitti (ENEA), A. Achilli (SIET), M. Cauzzi (SIET), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), T. Hamidouche (SCK CEN), R. Fernandez (SCK CEN), D. Rozzia (SCK CEN), I. Kljenak (Jozef Stefan Institute), R. Krpan (Jozef Stefan Institute), G. Jimenez (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), C. Queral (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), T. Del Moro (Sapienza Univ. Rome)
Analysis of Steady State and Operational Transients of the Versatile Loop Facility in Support to Lead Fast Reactor Development
2:10–2:30PM EDT
C. Ciurluini (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Principato (Sapienza Univ. Rome), F. Giannetti (Sapienza Univ. Rome), M. Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare), M. Tarantino (ENEA)
Application Development and Verification of Lead Cooling System Safety Analysis Program based on RELAP5 MOD4.0
2:30–2:50PM EDT
Xiangyang Wang (Lanzhou Univ.), Liu Yang (Lanzhou Univ.), Su Xingkang (Lanzhou Univ.), Qijian Chen (Lanzhou Univ.), Lu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Science), Xianwen Li (Chinese Academy of Science), Bin Han (Southeast Univ.), Aiguo Liu (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer), Bao-Wen Yang (DEQD Institute for Advanced Research in Multiphase Flow and Energy Transfer), Gu Long (Lanzhou Univ.)
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