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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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Engineering Services Building Room 122|Session Chair: Alexander S. Hauck
Saturday, April 6, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT
Engineering Services Building Room 122|Session Chair: Luiz C. Aldeia Machado
Saturday, April 6, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT
Leonhard Building Room 103|Session Chair: Caroline E. Ishak
Friday, April 5, 2024|1:35–2:55PM EDT
Hammond Room 220|Session Chair: Kelly Varnell
Leonhard Building Room 102|Session Chair: Matthew Leoschke
Friday, April 5, 2024|10:15–11:35AM EDT
Friday, April 5, 2024|3:15–4:35PM EDT
Hallowell Nuclear Innovation Commons|Session Chair: Katheren R. Bosson Nantes
Hallowell Nuclear Innovation Commons|Session Chair: Erik Hisahara
Hallowell Nuclear Innovation Commons|Session Chair: Jacob Maxeiner
Leonhard Building Room 102|Session Chair: Aaron P. Fjeldsted
Leonhard Building Room 102|Session Chair: Chris Balbier
Engineering Services Building Room 122|Session Chair: John Mobley IV
Hammond Room 220|Session Chair: Alexander Hauck
Hammond Room 220|Session Chair: Mahjabin Mahfuz
Hammond Room 220|Session Chair: Caroline E. Ishak
Leonhard Building Room 103|Session Chair: Pierre Bouhaddane
Panel|Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 325|Session Chair: Brandon Castillo
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: Nour Hernandez
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: Rebecca A. Baker
Panel|Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 325|Session Chair: Luiz C. Aldeia Machado
Panel|Engineering Services Building Room 122|Session Chair: Amanda M. Johnsen
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: Aaron P. Fjeldsted
Panel|Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 325|Session Chair: Katherine Baker
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: David Reger
Panel|Reber Room 135|Session Chair: Rebecca A. Baker
Panel|Reber Room 135|Session Chair: Brandon S. Castillo
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: Kourosh S. Sadr
Panel|Hallowell NIC|Session Chair: Cece Bell
Panel|Hallowell Nuclear Innovation Commons|Session Chair: Christopher T. Balbier
Saturday, April 6, 2024|3:15–4:35PM EDT
Panel|Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603|Session Chair: Joshua Bergstrom
Panel|Reber Room 135|Session Chair: John Mobley
Panel|Leonhard Building Room 102|Session Chair: Sean P. Bistany
Hub Robeson Center -- Alumni Hall|Session Chair: Daniel R. Holcomb
Friday, April 5, 2024|10:30AM–12:30PM EDT
Friday, April 5, 2024|1:50–3:50PM EDT
Leonhard Building Room 103|Session Chair: Jacob Maxeiner
Leonhard Building Room 103|Session Chair: Brad Nethercutt
Leonhard Building Room 103|Session Chair: Aamer A. Bashir
Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 326|Session Chair: Aamer A. Bashir
Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 326|Session Chair: David Reger
Hosler Room 026|Session Chair: Katheren R. Bosson Nantes
Hosler Room 026|Session Chair: Caroline E. Ishak
Engineering Services Building Room 122|Session Chair: Christopher T. Balbier
Reber Room 135|Session Chair: David Reger
Reber Room 135|Session Chair: John J. Acierno
Friday, April 5, 2024|3:15–3:45PM EDT
