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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|Lightning Talks
Tuesday, August 22, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Elia Merzari (PSU)
Alternate Chair:
Yassin Hassan (TAMU)
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Pebble Flow and Residence Time Distribution of 6.0 cm Graphite Pebbles in a Recirculating Pebble Bed Experimental Setup Using Radioactive Particle Tracking Technique
3:30–3:40PM EDT
Ahmed Jasim (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Jihane Mendil (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Omar Farid (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Zeyad Zeitoun (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Sebastian Uribe (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
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Automated Thermal Hydraulics System Analysis of High Flux Isotope Reactor Low-Enriched Uranium Silicide Dispersion Fuel Designs
3:40–3:50PM EDT
Christopher J. Hurt (ORNL), Zachary A. Bacon (ORNL), Valerie D. Fudurich (ORNL), W. Christopher Lowe (ORNL)
3D Imaging of Phase Structures Using Fibre Bragg Grating Grid Sensors
3:50–4:00PM EDT
Harvey Oliver Plows (Bangor Univ.), Marat Margulis (Bangor Univ.), Jinfeng Li (Bangor Univ.)
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Modeling and Simulation-Informed Design of a Natural Convection Salt Loop Irradiation Experiment at MITR to Generate MSR-Specific Data
4:00–4:10PM EDT
Nesrin O. Cetiner (MIT), David Carpenter (MIT), Guiqiu Zheng (MIT), Gordon Kohse (MIT)
COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling Results for the Low Enriched Uranium-Silicide Conversion of the High Flux Isotope Reactor
4:10–4:20PM EDT
Prashant K. Jain (ORNL)
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Flow Visualization in a Packed Bed Using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) and X-Ray Computed Tomography (CT)
4:20–4:30PM EDT
Adam O. Mafi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jerel W. Houston (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL)
Large Eddy Simulations of Channel Flow with one Heated Wall for Liquid Metals and High Temperature Gasses
4:30–4:40PM EDT
Theodore M. Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Large Eddy Simulation of Thermal Mixing of Liquid Sodium in a T-Junction
4:40–4:50PM EDT
Xiaoxue Huang (Univ. Sheffield), Shuisheng He (Univ. Sheffield)
Measurements of Near-Wall Turbulence in Water by Molecular Tagging Velocimetry
4:50–5:00PM EDT
Charles Fort (George Washington Univ.), Philippe Bardet (George Washington Univ.)
Code Calculation of Flow Distributions in a Plate-Type Fuel Assembly
5:00–5:10PM EDT
Zhou Lei (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Liu Jingze (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Yang Jun (Nuclear Power Institute of China)
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