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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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Session Chair: Patrick Walther
Friday, April 9, 2021|2:30–4:30PM EDT
Session Chair: Cao Da
Friday, April 9, 2021|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT
Session Chair: Brian Andersen
Friday, April 9, 2021|5:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair: Arsen Iskhakov
Saturday, April 10, 2021|11:00AM–12:00PM EDT
Saturday, April 10, 2021|4:30–5:15PM EDT
Session Chair: Lakshitha Kaleyanda
Session Chair: Grigorios Delipei
Session Chair: Palash Kumar Bhowmik
Session Chair: Khadija Mahbuba
Session Chair: Roberto Fairhurst-Agosta
Session Chair: Joshua Hoffman
Session Chair: Ni Kan
Session Chair: Jake Mitstifer
Saturday, April 10, 2021|2:00–3:30PM EDT
Session Chair: Chaitee Godbole
Session Chair: Bryant Kanies
Session Chair: Andy Rivas
Session Chair: Grayson Gall
Session Chair: Amanda Bachmann
Panel|Session Chair: Shannon M. Bragg-Sitton
Thursday, April 8, 2021|2:00–3:00PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Ishita Trivedi
Panel|Session Chair: Elizabeth S. Sooby
Panel|Session Chair: Eric Meyer
Friday, April 9, 2021|1:30–2:30PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar
Panel|Session Chair: Robert B. Hayes
Panel|Session Chair: Steven Shannon
Panel|Session Chair: Harsh S. Desai
Panel|Session Chair: Jason Hou
Saturday, April 10, 2021|1:00–2:00PM EDT
Panel|Session Chair: Amanda M. Bachmann
Session Chair: Ghada Shkoukani
Session Chair: David Holler
Session Chair: Kelley M. Verner
Thursday, April 8, 2021|6:00–7:30PM EDT
Session Chair: Ishita Trivedi
Saturday, April 10, 2021|12:00–1:00PM EDT
Session Chair: Yuqiao Joy Fan
Session Chair: Halil Ibrahim San
