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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.
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Thank you for participating in the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)!
The RPSD Proceedings are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the proceedings is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
You can also access the Proceedings by logging in to the ANS website. Then:
Sponsored by
Michael Reichenberger (Idaho National Laboratory)
Mathieu Dupont (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Call for Papers
RPSD 2024 Summary Template
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You are invited to submit your work for a special issue of the ANS journal Nuclear Science and Engineering or to the ANS publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research. Click the + for more information.
RPSD 2024 call for journal papers
RPSD 2024 has partnered with the ANS journal Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) to publish a special issue of papers derived from the conference. Additionally, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). See below or click here for more information on NSTOR.
If interested, please contact the guest editors listed below or submit directly via the links below.
**Submission window: open now with a final deadline of February 28, 2025
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Please consider the scopes of the journals when deciding where to submit.
Nuclear Science and Engineering welcomes submissions that explore basic and fundamental research in all areas related to nuclear science and engineering.
Submit to NSE – Questions? Email nse@ans.org.
Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations).
Submit to NSTOR – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending RPSD 2024, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Robert Hayes, RPSD 2024 general chair, rbhayes@ncsu.eduVaibhav Sinha, guest editor, RPSD 2024 publications chair, sinha.181@osu.eduMichael Reichenberger, guest editor, RPSD 2024 program co-chair, michael.reichenberger@inl.govMathieu Dupont, guest editor, RPSD 2024 program co-chair, dupontmn@ornl.govLawrence Heilbronn, guest editor, RPSD 2024 special issue, lheilbro@utk.eduFarzad Rahnema, Nuclear Science and Engineering editor-in-chief, frahnema@outlook.com