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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, October 9, 2024|1:00–2:45PM MDT|Room 5
Session Chair:
Ling Zou (ANL)
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Accelerating Advanced Nuclear Reactor Development Through the NRIC Test Beds
1:00–1:07PM MDT
Troy Burnett (INL), Philip Schoonover (INL)
Presented by Marvin W. Fielding (INL)
Paper
Utilizing NRIC Test Beds -- FEEED/User Guide
1:07–1:14PM MDT
Marvin W. Fielding (INL), Troy Pearson Burnett (INL)
National Reactor Innovation Center -- Laboratory for Operations and Testing in the United States and Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
1:14–1:21PM MDT
James A. King (INL), Jacob S. Rymer (INL)
BWX Technology's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program Work at Idaho National Laboratory
1:21–1:28PM MDT
Sam Reiss (INL)
National Reactor Innovation Center Advanced Construction Technology Program
1:28–1:35PM MDT
Luke Voss (INL)
Framework for Analyzing Nuclear Supply Chain Dynamics and Advanced Reactor Deployment
1:35–1:42PM MDT
Jia Zhou (ANL), Scott Richards (ANL), Matthew Riddle (ANL), Neal Mann (ANL), Nicolas Stauff (ANL)
INL Support of the X-energy Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program
1:42–1:49PM MDT
Providing Experimental Infrastructure for Accelerating Advanced Reactor Demonstrations Through the National Reactor Innovation Center
1:49–1:56PM MDT
Gregory M. Core (INL)
Presented by Thomas Folk (INL)
Innovating Nuclear Through Legacy Documents
1:56–2:03PM MDT
Holly J. Powell (Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear), Christopher A. Kowalczyk (INL), Jonathan D. Grams (Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear)
Presentation Slides (Visible to Attendees)
Variable-Curvature Helical Coil and Coil Bundles Arranged in Longitudinal Staggered Arrangement -- A New Method to Enhance H&MT in Tube-Side and Shell-Side of SGs
2:03–2:10PM MDT
Nailiang Zhuang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics), Hangbin Zhao (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology), Xiaobin Tang (Nanjing Univ. Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Oklo's Fuel Fabrication and Reactor Demonstration at Idaho National Laboratory
2:10–2:17PM MDT
Reaching Net-Zero Through Nuclear: Idaho National Laboratory's Initiatives to Demonstrate and Deploy Nuclear Energy Options
2:17–2:24PM MDT
Jhansi Kandasamy (INL), Elizabeth Brunner (INL)
Economic and Practical Advantages of Transportable Floating Nuclear Reactors
2:24–2:31PM MDT
A. Horwood (Univ. South Carolina), S. Bays (INL), T. Knight (Univ. South Carolina)
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