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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|Nuclear Advocacy and Policy
Friday, April 5, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT|Engineering Services Building Room 122
Session Chair:
John Mobley IV (Iowa State University)
Alternate Chair:
Jessi Altiero (Penn State University)
Session Organizer:
Jonathan B. Balog (Penn State University)
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Molten Salt Reactor Powered Industrial Complex
10:15–10:35AM EDT
Henry S. Shamiyeh (Webb School of Knoxville), Visura Pathirana (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Ondrej Chvala (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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Solar Rules: Illuminating Policies for Galactic Nuclear Reactor Adventures
10:35–10:55AM EDT
Steven Panico (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jacob Korus (Univ. Pittsburgh)
Memes, The Apocalypse, and New Generation Perspectives on Nuclear Science and Nuclear Power
10:55–11:15AM EDT
Robert Riley (Oregon State)
Net-Zero Design Proposal
11:15–11:35AM EDT
Brooklyn P. Wise (Idaho State), Brandon Jenkins (Idaho State), Ethan Lang (Idaho State), Leo Gannon (Idaho State), Moses Bosquez (Idaho State), Salvador Muñoz (Idaho State), Sweet E. Shanahan (Idaho State), Amir Ali (Idaho State)
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