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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|Lightning Talks
Wednesday, August 23, 2023|3:30–5:10PM EDT|Columbia 3/4
Session Chair:
Stephen M. Bajorek
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Igor A. Bolotnov
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Flow Reconstruction of Jet Induced by Steam Condensation from Sparse Temperature Measurements
3:30–3:40PM EDT
Xicheng Wang (Royal Institute of Technology), YiMeng Chan (Royal Institute of Technology), Dmitry Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
Paper
Integrating Physics into Machine Learning for Time Series Forecasting of Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Systems
3:40–3:50PM EDT
Xingang Zhao (ORNL), Bryan Maldonado Puente (ORNL), Wesley Williams (ORNL), Seung-Hwan Lim (ORNL), Frank Liu (ORNL), Pradeep Ramuhalli (ORNL)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Embedded Borescopic Molecular Tagging Velocimetry Within PWR Surrogate Bundle
3:50–4:00PM EDT
Roberto Capanna (George Washington Univ.), Philippe M. Bardet (George Washington Univ.), Guillaume Ricciardi (CEA)
Simultaneous High-Speed Flow Velocimetry and Pressure Measurements in Water Hammer
4:00–4:10PM EDT
Roberto Capanna (George Washington Univ.), Philippe M. Bardet (George Washington Univ.)
Effects of Multiple Melt-Jets Release and Triggering on the Energetics of Ex-Vessel Steam Explosion in Nordic BWRs
4:10–4:20PM EDT
Ibrahim Batayneh (Royal Institute of Technology), Dmitry Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
Modeling of Triggering and Steam Explosion Pressure Propagation with Validation Against KROTOS Experiments
4:20–4:30PM EDT
Lagrangian-Eulerian Coupled Numerical Modeling of Fuel-Coolant Interaction in Nuclear Reactor Severe Accident
4:30–4:40PM EDT
M.S. Kim (Korea Maritime and Ocean Univ.), D.J. Shin (Korea Maritime and Ocean Univ.), D.H. Kim (Korea Maritime and Ocean Univ.), K.H. Bang (Korea Maritime and Ocean Univ.)
Parametric Study of Modeling of Pool Scrubbing Under Jet Injection Regime Using GOTHIC
4:40–4:50PM EDT
Xicheng Wang (Royal Institute of Technology), Dmitry Grishchenko (Royal Institute of Technology), Pavel Kudinov (Royal Institute of Technology)
The Effect of Aerosol Particle Density on Aerosol Release Potential in LMR Source Term Experiments
4:50–5:00PM EDT
John C. Petrykowski (Vibration Heat Flow and Analysis)
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