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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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Saturday, April 16, 2022|9:30AM–1:30PM CDT
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Modified NIM for Nonlinear, Coupled Neutronics-Thermalhydraulics Problems
Aya Hegazy (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Rizwan Uddin (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Using PyGenesys and Temoa to Model Ammonia Production
Yi nok Yeung (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), antonino g. paciocco (Illinois university), Sam Dotson (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Feedback Control of Molten Salt Nuclear Battery -- Proof of Concept Model
Samuel J. Root (Univ. Idaho), Richard N. Christensen (Univ. Idaho)
Non-Conventional Nuclear Terrorism
James N. Padgett (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Reactor Transient Analysis With Cooling and Delayed Neutrons
Spencer C. Ercanbrack (Idaho State), George R. Imel (Idaho State)
Production of Custom Thermoluminescent Dosimeter Housings Using 3D Printing
Victor Wang (US Naval Academy), Young-Uk Kim (US Naval Academy), William Buckman (US Naval Academy), Luke Lhota (US Naval Academy)
FeCrAl Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel: Current Status and Future Developments
Tristan O. Norrgard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Caleb T. King (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Carlos Londono (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Reza Mohammadi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Jessica V. Rojas (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Prediction of Ultimate Tensile Strength on Irradiated Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels Using Gaussian Kernel Ridge Regression
Gavin T. VandenBroeder (Oregon State ), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State )
Initial Characterization of the Radio Frequency Plasma Interaction Experiment (RF PIE)
Kaitlyn Butler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Westinghouse Loss of Heat Sink Code Coupler: Senior Design Project
Alyssa N. Dziadyk (Penn State), Sara E. Kolecki (Penn State ), Bennett Shelby (Penn State )
Estimates of Dose Due to Cosmic Radiation Using the MCNP6.2 Code
Noah Byrne (US Naval Academy)
GITR Monte Carlo Predictive Simulations of the DIII-D SAS-V Divertor
Alyssa Hayes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Automated Validation and Calibration RAVEN Workflow for Integrated Energy Systems
Marisol Garrouste (Univ. Michigan), Konor Frick (INL)
Neural Networks for the Analysis of 2D Radio-Xenon Beta Gamma Spectra
Robert A. Hall (USAF Academy)
Isotope Production of Be-7, Ga-67, and Si-32 at the Penn State Breazeale Reactor (PSBR)
Jackson Buchko (Penn State), Madison S. Gitzen (Penn State )
Martian Assembled Regolith Radiation Shield (MARRS)
Nathan J. Matalavage (US Naval Academy), Katie Lupo (US Naval Academy), Katie Halbert (US Naval Academy), Katelyn Majors (US Naval Academy), Kathleen McCusker (US Naval Academy)
Mechanical and Microstructural Responses of Severe-Plastic Deformed High Entropy Alloys Under Irradiation
Spencer T. Doran (Oregon State ), Liuqing Yang (University of North Carolina Charlette), Di Chen (Univ. Houston), Youxing Chen (University of North Carolina Charlette), Megumi Kawasaki (Oregon State ), Tianyi Chen (Oregon State )
Instrumented Hot Fuel Analysis Elevator for NRAD North Radiation Station Neutron Beam
Evan C. Lambert (Penn State), Kevin Jones (Penn State ), Avery Arnone (Penn State ), Rithik Parekh (Penn State ), Andrew T. Smolinski (INL)
CFD Simulations of Rifled Tubes for Molten Salt Reactor Heat Exchangers
James Vulcanoff (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Joshua Gateley (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Comparison Between Continuous and Batchwise Online Reprocessing in Serpent-2
Luke D. Seifert (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Control Rod Shadowing Effects in Control Rod Calibrations of the Oregon State TRIGA® Reactor
Tracey Spoerer (Oregon State ), Steven Smith (Oregon State ), Steven R. Reese (Oregon State )
Neutronics Modeling and Optimization of a Centrifugal Nuclear Thermal Rocket Using OpenMC Code
Matthew Fredd (Penn State ), William J. Walters (Penn State)
How does Nuclear Engineering Engage with Society? A Review of the Scholarship
Paige A. Lighthammer (Univ. Michigan), Madhurima Das (MIT), Anastasia K. Ostrowsk (MIT), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Shielding Analysis of Modular Steel-Concrete Composite for use in SMR containment
Rithvik Kundarapu (Penn State ), Levko Higgins (Penn State), David D. Druckemiller (Penn State)
Applying Mobile Detection Devices to Superfund Sites
Andrew J. Kuhl (Missouri S&T)
Research at Mines: Reactor Materials
Sam Major (Colorado School of Mines), Caleb A. Clark (Colorado School of Mines)
Advanced Reactors and the Importance of Environmental Impact Statements
Elijah G. Capps (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Simulation Study on Electron Beam Optics to Develop an X-ray Source for Stationary CT for Realtime 4D Imaging
Jordan K. Fox (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Wesley W. Tucker (Missouri S&T), Ashish V. Avachat (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Hyoung K. Lee (Univ. New Mexico)
Molten Salt Glovebox Design
Christian M. Sclafani (Univ. California, Berkeley), Michael Borrello (Univ. California, Berkeley), Raluca O. Scarlat (Univ. California, Berkeley), Devin Rappleye (Brigham Young Univ.), Ranon Fuller (Brigham Young Univ.)
Alternative Pathways for Technetium-99 Production
Tanner Heatherly (Oregon State )
Thermal Energy Storage System for Kairos Power's Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor
Aiden J. Sable (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor), David Augustine Miller (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor)
Peak Fitting for the Analysis of 2D Radio-Xenon Beta Gamma Spectra
Johnathan A. Caldwell (USAF Academy), James Scoville (USAF Academy), Thienbao N. Carpency (USAF Academy), Robert A. Hall (USAF Academy), R. Anthony Vincent (USAF Academy)
Using an Illinois energy model to demonstrate the potential impact of proactive nuclear activism
Nataly R. Panczyk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nathan Ryan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Samuel Dotson (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Madicken Munk (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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