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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.
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10:15AM–12:00PM EDT
Ellwood
Session Chair: Sebastian Schunert|Alternate Chair: Qicang Shen
Brighton I/II
Session Chair: Patrick Blaise|Alternate Chair: Eugene Shwageraus
Panel|Grand Station I/II
Session Chair: Moussa Mahgerefteh
Pointview
Session Chair: Andrew Godfrey|Alternate Chair: Brenden T. Mervin
Haselton
Session Chair: Ishita Trivedi|Alternate Chair: Vefa N. Kucukboyaci
Fountainview
Session Chair: Brendan M. Kochunas|Alternate Chair: Nicolas E. Stauff
Brighton III/IV
Session Chair: Jean-Christophe C. Sublet|Alternate Chair: Godfree Gert
1:30–3:15PM EDT
Session Chair: Igor Zmijarevic|Alternate Chair: Gumersindo Verdú
Session Chair: Paul Romano|Alternate Chair: Jaakko Leppänen
Session Chair: Maria Avramova|Alternate Chair: Ishita Trivedi
Session Chair: David J. Kropaczek
Session Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni|Alternate Chair: Nicolas E. Stauff
Session Chair: Seth J. Spooner|Alternate Chair: Pablo R. Rubiolo
Session Chair: Ayman I. Hawari|Alternate Chair: Kenichi Tada
3:30–5:15PM EDT
Session Chair: Charles A. Wemple|Alternate Chair: Kurt A. Dominesey
Session Chair: Nathan J. Roskoff|Alternate Chair: Jaakko Leppänen
Session Chair: Gregory Delipei|Alternate Chair: Maria Avramova
Session Chair: Ron S. Faibish
Session Chair: Nicolas Stauff|Alternate Chairs: Massimiliano Fratoni, Yan Cao
Session Chair: Pablo R. Rubiolo|Alternate Chair: Seth J. Spooner
Session Chair: Christopher M. Perfetti|Alternate Chair: Zeyun Wu
Session Chair: Tom Mager|Alternate Chair: Matthias Nezondet
Session Chair: Giuseppe Palmiotti|Alternate Chair: Piero Ravetto
Session Chair: Maria Avramova|Alternate Chair: Marianna Papadionysiou
Session Chair: Yan Cao|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Germina Ilas|Alternate Chair: Aurelie Bardelay
Session Chair: Paolo Vinai|Alternate Chair: Dean Wang
Session Chair: William P. Gassmann|Alternate Chair: Fausto Franceschini
Session Chair: Benoit Forget|Alternate Chair: Benjamin S. Collins
Session Chair: Alireza Haghighat|Alternate Chairs: Luka Snoj, Valerio Mascolino
Session Chair: Emre Tatli|Alternate Chair: Nicolas E. Stauff
Session Chair: Mathieu Dupont|Alternate Chair: Germina Ilas
Session Chair: Sooyoung Choi|Alternate Chair: Akinori Giho
Session Chair: Michael G. Anness|Alternate Chair: Cenk Guler
Session Chair: Baocheng Zhang|Alternate Chair: Petri Guimaraes
Session Chair: Yan Cao|Alternate Chair: Nicolas E. Stauff
Session Chair: Bor Kos|Alternate Chair: Jean-Christophe C. Sublet
6:00–8:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Cenk Guler|Alternate Chair: Vefa N. Kucukboyaci
Session Chair: Vladimir Kriventsev|Alternate Chair: Taek Kyum Kim
Session Chair: Baris Sarikaya
Session Chair: Yuxuan Liu|Alternate Chair: Vedant Mehta
Session Chair: Petri Guimaraes|Alternate Chair: Baocheng Zhang
Session Chair: Nicolas Stauff|Alternate Chair: Massimiliano Fratoni
Session Chair: Timothy E. Valentine|Alternate Chair: Christopher M. Perfetti
Session Chair: Taek Kyum Kim|Alternate Chairs: Vladimir Kriventsev, Yan Cao
Session Chair: Benjamin S. Collins|Alternate Chair: Benoit Forget
Session Chair: Joshua Hykes|Alternate Chair: Kimihiro Yokoi
Session Chair: Javier Ortensi|Alternate Chair: Shoichiro OKITA
Session Chair: Michael T. Wenner|Alternate Chair: William J. Marshall
Session Chair: Aaron Graham|Alternate Chair: Michael E. Gavalek
Session Chair: Raphaelle Ichou|Alternate Chair: Mark D. DeHart
8:00–9:45AM EDT
Session Chair: Alex Levinsky|Alternate Chair: Chang-ho Lee
Session Chair: Jaakko Leppänen|Alternate Chair: Nathan J. Roskoff
Session Chair: Carlo Fiorina
Session Chair: G. Ivan Maldonado
Session Chair: Michael L. Zerkle|Alternate Chair: Adam G. Nelson
Session Chair: Carlo Fiorina|Alternate Chair: Alessandro Scolaro
Session Chair: Dan Kotlyar|Alternate Chair: Vedant Mehta
Session Chair: Rodolfo M. Ferrer|Alternate Chair: Benjamin R. Betzler
Session Chair: William J. Marshall|Alternate Chair: Michael T. Wenner
Session Chair: Vince Wang|Alternate Chair: Petri Guimaraes
Session Chair: Matias Zilly|Alternate Chair: Jaakko Leppänen
Session Chair: John C. Hannah
Session Chair: Una Baker|Alternate Chair: Una Baker
Session Chair: Michael T. Wenner|Alternate Chair: William B.J. Marshall
Session Chair: Nathan Roskoff|Alternate Chair: Jaakko Leppänen
Session Chair: Kostadin N. Ivanov|Alternate Chair: Cristian Rabiti
Session Chair: Scott Palmtag|Alternate Chair: Nathan H. Manwaring
