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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
Tuesday, July 23, 2024|10:00–11:50AM CDT|Senate A/B
Session Chair:
Jonathan E. Menard
Alternate Chair:
Ben Lindley
Session Organizer:
Arnold Lumsdaine
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Design Point and Optimization of a General Fusion Magnetized Target Fusion Power Plant
10:00–10:25AM CDT
Daymon Krotez (General Fusion), Raphael Segas (General Fusion), Ivan Khalzov (General Fusion)
Presented by Michel Laberge (General Fusion)
Paper
Pre-Conceptual Neutronics and Shielding Assessment of a Beam-Driven Tokamak Volumetric Neutron Source
10:25–10:50AM CDT
Dieter Leichtle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Roman Afanasenko (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Christian Bachmann (EUROfusion), Pierluigi Chiovaro (Univ. Palermo), Aljaz Cufar (Jožef Stefan Institute), Gianfranco Federici (EUROfusion), Thomas Franke (EUROfusion), Ivo Moscato (EUROfusion), Jin Hun Park (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), Pavel Pereslavtsev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Alex Valentine (U.K. Atomic Energy Authority)
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The Advanced Tokamak Fusion Pilot Plant: An Optimized and Integrated Conceptual Design
10:50–11:10AM CDT
D.B. Weisberg (General Atomics), T. Akiyama (General Atomics), P. Beharrel (General Atomics), S. Ding (General Atomics), G. Dose (General Atomics), N. Eidietis (General Atomics), A.M. Garofalo (General Atomics), A. Ghiozzi (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), B.A. Grierson (General Atomics), J. Guterl (General Atomics), J. Harvery (General Atomics), A. Hennessey (General Atomics), A. Leonard (General Atomics), J. Leuer (General Atomics), B. Lyons (General Atomics), R. Maurizio (General Atomics), O. Meneghini (General Atomics), P. Mijatovic (General Atomics), R. Raffray (General Atomics), N. Shi (General Atomics), T. Slendebroek (Oak Ridge Associated Universities), M. Tillack (General Atomics), A. Xing (General Atomics)
Project Century: Zap Energy's 100 kW-Scale Repetitive Sheared-Flow-Stabilized Z-Pinch System with Liquid Metal Cooling
11:10–11:30AM CDT
M.C. Thompson (Zap Energy), V. Nalajala (Zap Energy), B. Kelleher (Zap Energy), S. Brantley (Zap Energy), C. Parga (Zap Energy), A. Cheung (Zap Energy), M. Aubuchon (Zap Energy), B.A. Nelson (Zap Energy), B. Maynard (Zap Energy), J. Beers (Zap Energy), C. Ying (Zap Energy), J. Stuber (Zap Energy), T. Schwartz (Zap Energy), G. Staines (Zap Energy), S. Gagnon (Zap Energy), M. Acks (Zap Energy), S. Ashrun (Zap Energy), S. Bagdy (Zap Energy), A. Basile (Zap Energy), B. Beers (Zap Energy), K. Blackwell (Zap Energy), H. Blanck (Zap Energy), F. Caliari (Zap Energy), H. Carlson (Zap Energy), M. Christenson (Zap Energy), T. Connolly (Zap Energy), S. Cortez (Zap Energy), J. Costa-Greger (Zap Energy), H. Grover (Zap Energy), C. Hansen (Zap Energy), K. Hatfield (Zap Energy), S. Huotilainen (Zap Energy), S. Jurovich (Zap Energy), S. Korlann (Zap Energy), S. Muniyalkrishna (Zap Energy), M. Parry (Zap Energy), W. Pauley (Zap Energy), B. Pedler (Zap Energy), T. Rhodes (Zap Energy), D. Sanabria (Zap Energy), W. Schoenthal (Zap Energy), Z. Toth (Zap Energy), N. Tripp (Zap Energy), B. Wakefield (Zap Energy), B. Watson (Zap Energy), C. Zehner (Zap Energy)
Approach to Startup Inventory for Viable Commercial Fusion Power Plant
11:30–11:50AM CDT
Collin R. Malone (SRNL), Holly B. Flynn (SRNL), Alex D. Somers (SRNL), P. Arron Rowell (SRNL), George K. Larsen (SRNL)
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