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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|Poster Sessions
Saturday, April 15, 2023|1:35–4:15PM EDT|Ballroom C
Session Chair:
Lance M. Drouet
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Alternate Chair:
Emma C. Houston
This session is sponsored by MillenniTEK.
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Automation of Creating High Fidelity TRISO Particle Fuel Element in MCNP Models
Benjamin A. Impson (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zachary Crouch (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Braden Goddard (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
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Demonstration of Multiphysics Plasma Simulations Through the IPS Framework
Joshua M. Hoffman (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Reduction of Iron Ore by an Atmospheric-Pressure Non-Thermal Microwave Plasma Torch
Harrison A. Brosius (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Daniel Ellis (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), R. M. Sankaran (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jazline Rebollar (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jessica A. Krogstad (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Quantum Chemistry and Ligand Topology for Actinide Separations: The 343HOPO Case
Jeffrey A. Laub (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Design of an Optimized Nuclear Fuel Pellet
Patty Dooley (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Dakota M. Contryman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Addie Hervey (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Robert Ivers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Isabella A. Reddish (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Yuze Song (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
A Review of Mobile Robot Technology for Security Applications at Nuclear Facilities
Ujwal Sharma (Idaho State), Uma S. Medasetti (Idaho State), Mustafa Mashal (Idaho State), Vaibhav Yadav (INL)
Development of an Energy-Dependent Neutron Shielding Model for VARSKIN+
Zane Tucker (Renaissance Code Development, LLC), Charlotte Rose (Renaissance Code Development, LLC)
Radiation Mapping of a Subcritical Assembly
Asif S. Anwar (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue), True Miller (Purdue), Andres E. Gomez (Purdue), Adam J. Hermann (Purdue), Trevor G. Hylen (Purdue)
Importance Sampling Methods to Accelerate PINN Calculations for k-Eigenvalue Neutron Diffusion Problems
William E. Strom (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Mohamed H. Elhareef (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Zeyun Wu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Design and Optimization of the Core and Fuel Cycle in a 20 MW Pebble Bed Reactor
Grayson S. Gall (NCSU), James Krec (NC State), Ershaud Naderi (NC State)
Numerical Implementation of a Differential Scattering Cross Section Solver for Arbitrary Screened Coulomb Potentials
Stephen D. Armstrong (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Davide Curreli (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Optimizing Spectral and Energy Resolution with Machine Learning for 1mm CdTe Quantum Detectors
Angela Tomita (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin), Ling J. Meng (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Can Yang (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Calculation of the Delayed Heating in Repeated Structures Using the MCNP-ORIGEN Activation Automation Tool
Roberto Fairhurst Agosta (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for the Detection of Fissile Mass
Nelson H. Snow (Idaho State), Mitchell Frasure (Idaho State), Grant Stockett (Idaho State), Elaina M. Nava (Idaho State Univeristy), Chad L. Pope (Idaho State)
Human Health Risk Assessment in case of Hypothetical Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Accident
Mertcan Atikler (Ohio State), Vaibhav Sinha (Ohio State)
Air Sterilization via Atmospheric Plasma
Andrew Liu (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), John Vincent B. Cauilan (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Michael R. Hysick (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Joe Solar (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David N. Ruzic (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Molten Salt Material Quantification with Glow Discharge Electrolysis
Alina Jugan (NCSU), Kayla Hahn (NCSU), Alexander W. Bataller (NCSU)
Investigation of a Novel Transitional Layer Design for Integrating Tungsten and Reduced Activation Ferritic Steel for Fusion Reactors
Ishtiaque Karim Robin (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Tim Graening (ORNL), Ying Yang (ORNL), Yutai Katoh (ORNL), Steven J. Zinkle (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
Influence of Hf- and Sm-doping on Radiation-Induced Redox Effects in CeO2
Levi Holler (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
TRIGA Reactor Augmentation for Pu-238 Production
Benjamin Chi (US Naval Academy), Hitoshi Cullinan (US Naval Academy), Dylan Pattison (US Naval Academy), Harold Schlatter (US Naval Academy)
Overview of Power Reactor Noise Analysis for Advanced Reactors
Harun Ardiansyah (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Tomasz Kozlowski (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Radiation Shielding for a Martian Habitat
Clifford T. Vuong (US Naval Academy), David Huizenga (US Naval Academy), Jordan Blair (US Naval Academy), Antonio Sanchez (US Naval Academy)
The Accumulation of Helium and Hydrogen in Interfaces of Dispersion Strengthened Tungsten with Carbides
Levko B. Higgins (Penn State)
Large Eddy Simulations of Channel Flow with one Heated Wall for Liquid Metals and High Temperature Gasses
Theodore M. Chu (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.), Lane B. Carasik (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.)
Image Sensor and Power Supply for Portable Fast Neutron Detection
Stephen W. McKinney (US Military Academy), Conor M. Riordan (US Military Academy), Kyle Swindler (US Military Academy)
Neutronics Analysis of Advanced Reactor Vessel Emissivity
Patrick Walther (NCSU), Victor R. Gonzalez-Ibarra (NCSU), Dakota Randle (South Carolina State), Xu Wu (NCSU), John F. Zino (GE Hitachi), Zachary Sweeney (GE Hitachi)
Structural Stability of REE-PO4 (REE = Sm,Tb) Under Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation
Cale C. Overstreet (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Maik Lang (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Eric O'Quinn (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)
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