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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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Radisson Hotel |7:30AM–4:30PM CDT
East Conference Desk |8:00AM–6:00PM CDT
This tour will depart from the front entrance of the iHotel |9:00–10:55AM CDT
I Hotel, Loyalty Room |9:00AM–12:00PM CDT
I Hotel, Innovation Room |9:00AM–12:00PM CDT
Radisson Hotel |9:50–11:10AM CDT
This tour will depart from the iHotel entrance. |11:00AM–12:55PM CDT
Triptych Brewery |11:50AM–3:10PM CDT
Loyalty Room |12:15–1:45PM CDT
I Hotel, Innovation Room |2:00–5:00PM CDT
I Hotel, Loyalty Room |2:00–5:00PM CDT
I Hotel |2:00–5:00PM CDT
I Hotel |3:30–6:00PM CDT
I Hotel, Heritage Hall |6:00–8:00PM CDT
Memorial Stadium |8:30–11:00PM CDT
7:30–9:00AM CDT
East Conference Desk |7:30AM–3:30PM CDT
Knowledge Room |8:00–5:00AM CDT
I Hotel |8:00AM–6:00PM CDT
Quad Room |8:00AM–6:00PM CDT
8:00AM–6:00PM CDT
Knowledge Room |11:15AM–1:15PM CDT
Radisson Hotel |6:00–8:00PM CDT
Illinois Terminal |8:30–11:00PM CDT
Illinois Ballroom |8:00–9:30AM CDT
I Hotel |8:00–11:30AM CDT
Quad Room |8:00–11:30AM CDT
8:00–11:30AM CDT
Knowledge Room |8:00AM–5:00PM CDT
Illinois Ballroom |9:30–11:30AM CDT
Knowledge Room |11:00AM–1:00PM CDT
I Hotel |11:30AM–2:00PM CDT
Illinois Ballroom |11:30AM–2:00PM CDT
Illinois Ballroom |2:00–3:00PM CDT
State Farm Center |6:00–8:00PM CDT
Riggs Brewery |8:30–11:00PM CDT
