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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.
Panel and Technical Session|Radiation Detection and Imaging
Friday, April 14, 2023|1:35–2:55PM EDT|Student Union 362B
Session Chair:
Christian Young (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Alternate Chair:
Kate Joshi (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Session Organizer:
Lance M. Drouet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
This session is sponsored by the ANS Isotopes & Radiation Divison.
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Pulsed Source Water Activation Benchmark Experiment
1:35–1:55PM EDT
Dalton Lonker (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Cole N. Fritsch (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Harrison Huegen (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Mason D. Phillips (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville), Stephen Pucci (Univ. Tennessee., Knoxville)
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Covert Radiation Anomaly Bomb Sensor System Design and Testing
1:55–2:15PM EDT
Mary E. Brackett (US Naval Academy), Douglas Gologorsky (US Naval Academy), Matthew Niichel (US Naval Academy), Brant L. Purcell (US Naval Academy), Ben Werve (US Naval Academy)
Optimization of Radiolabeling for Positron Emission Particle Tracking Experiments
2:15–2:35PM EDT
Jerel W. Houston (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Arturo Cabral (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Adam Mafi (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Cody S. Wiggins (ORNL), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
USMA RADBOT ANS 2023 Student Conference Summary
2:35–2:55PM EDT
Quinn Binney (USMA), Connor Fay (USMA), Isaac Marret (USMA), Elijah Strange (USMA)
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