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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|Coordination Chemistry
Monday, September 9, 2024|4:20–5:40PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Rachael Fara (SRNL)
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Mixed-Valent Plutonium Compounds and Routes to Plutonium Analogs of the Creutz-Taube Ion
4:20–4:40PM EDT
Thomas E. Albrecht-Schoenzart (Colorado School of Mines)
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Ligand Design for Transuranic Imidophosphorane Complexes: Establishing Frameworks for High-Valent Neptunium and Plutonium Chemistry
4:40–5:00PM EDT
Julie E. Niklas (Georgia Tech), Kaitlyn S. Otte (Georgia Tech), Chad M. Studvick (Univ. Akron), Sabyasachi Roy-Chowdhury (Univ. South Dakota), Bess Vlaisavljevich (Univ. South Dakota), John Bacsa (Georgia Tech), Florian Kleemiss (RWTH Aachen Univ.), Ivan A. Popov (Univ. Akron), Henry S. La Pierre (Georgia Tech)
Proton Coupled Electron Transfer Reactivity with High-Valent Neptunium and Plutonium
5:00–5:20PM EDT
James Blakemore (Univ. Kansas), Emily Mikeska (Univ. Kansas), Richard Wilson (ANL)
Bonding Trends in Complex Series of the Early Actinides
5:20–5:40PM EDT
Moritz Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Boseok Hong (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Tamara Duckworth (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Johannes Balas (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Peter Kaden (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Michael Patzschke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Juliane März (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Kristina O. Kvashnina (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Robert Gericke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
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