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Meeting Spotlight
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.
Schedule is subject to change.
7:00 AM- 4:00 PM
Trinity Site Tour
Trinity Site
Los Alamos National Lab Tour
Los Alamos National Lab
7:00 AM-4:30 PM
Sandia National Lab Tour
Sandia National Laboratory
8:00-11:00 AM
Criticality Safety Workshop
Student Union Building
9:00-11:00 AM
Resume Workshop
Engineering Student Success Center
9:00 -11:00 AM
Campus Tour
9:00 AM- 12:00 PM
Karios Power Tour
Kairos Power
1:00-3:00 PM
Sobremesa Brewery Tour
Sobremesa Restaurant
1:00-5:00 PM
Registration/Help Desk Open
Student Union Building Ballroom Atrium
1:00-4:00 PM
OpenMC Workshop
Data Science Workshop in Python
6:00-8:00 PM
Opening Banquet
8:00-9:00 PM
The Laboratory for Advanced Reactor Engineering and Safety Tour
LARE Laboratory
The Characterization and Irradiation of Surfaces and materials for Nuclear Applications Laboratory Tour
CHARISMA Laboratory
Extreme Materials Groups Laboratory Tour
8:00-10:00 PM
On-Campus Social (Trivia and Game Night)
Farris Engineering Center
7:30-8:45 AM
Breakfast
Sheraton Ballroom
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
9:00 AM-4:00 PM
Career Fair
Student Union Building Ballroom
9:00 AM - 1:10 PM
Poster Session
9:00-10:20 AM
Fusion Panel
Technical Sessions I-III
10:30-11:50 AM
Graduate School Panel
Technical Sessions IV-VI
12:00-1:10 PM
Walk Around Lunch
Student Sections Committee Meeting
1:10-2:30 PM
Nuclear Medicine Panel
Technical Sessions VII-IX
2:40-4:00 PM
Surprise Panel
Technical Sessions X-XII
6:00-9:00 PM
Networking Social and Dinner
ABQ BioPark
7:30 - 8:45 AM
Nuclear Policy Panel
Sheraton Rm.
Technical Sessions XIII-XV
9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Career Fair Interviews
Nuclear Waste Panel
Technical Sessions XVI-XVIII
12:00-1:30 PM
Consent Based Siting Consortium Lunch n' Learn
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lunch
1:40-3:00 PM
Conference Bid Panel
Technical Sessions XIX-XXI
3:10-4:30 PM
Technical Sessions XXII-XXIV
Liquid Metal Panel
6:00-9:30 PM
Closing Banquet
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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