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ANS Student Conference 2025
April 3–5, 2025
Albuquerque, NM|The University of New Mexico
Standards Program
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February 2025
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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
Tuesday, May 17, 2022|1:30–3:15PM EDT|Haselton
Session Chair:
Giuseppe Palmiotti
Session Organizers:
Piero Ravetto (Politecnico di Torino)
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The Fast Neutron Source at UTK: A Project with Massimo Salvatores
V. Sobes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), J. Pevey (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), A. Depillis (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), O. Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), S. Bogetic (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), W. Hines (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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A Revisitation of the ENEA TAPIRO Fast Source Reactor Neutronic Capabilities.
S. Dulla (Politecnico di Torino), M. Carta (ENEA), N. Burgio (ENEA), V. Fabrizio (ENEA), L. Falconi (ENEA), V. Peluso (ENEA), A. Santagata (ENEA)
A Refined Assessment of Nuclear Data Target Accuracy Requirements for ALFRED
Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (ENEA), Giacomo Grasso (ENEA), Francesco Lodi (ENEA), Vincenzo Peluso (ENEA)
Status of the WPEC Subgroup 46 Efficient and Effective Use of Integral Experiments for Nuclear Data Validation
M. Hursin (Paul Scherrer Institute), O. Cabellos (Univ. Politécnica de Madrid), G. Palmiotti (INL)
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