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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|Sponsored by OPD
Monday, November 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM EST|Grouper
Session Chair:
Hitesh Bindra (Purdue Univ.)
Alternate Chair:
Tim Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Session Organizer:
William N. Mann
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Evaluation of Operational Benefits of Retrofitting Nuclear-Renewable Integrated Energy Systems at Coal Plant Sites
3:15–3:35PM EST
Muhammad R. Abdussami (Univ. Michigan), Johanna L. Mathieu (Univ. Michigan), Aditi Verma (Univ. Michigan)
Paper
Comparison of Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy Driven Solvent Based Direct Air Capture: An Economic Review
3:35–3:55PM EST
Md Akhlak Bin Aziz (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Timothy Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Caleb Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Integrating Advanced Reactors into University Campus Microgrids
3:55–4:15PM EST
Timothy P. Grunloh (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Dimitri Kalinichenko (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Reynaldo Guerrero (Xendee), Nishaant Sinha (Xendee), Michael Stadler (Xendee), James Reilly (Reilly Assoc.), Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Short Term Power Forecasting of a Nuclear Hybrid Energy System Using Machine Learning
4:15–4:35PM EST
Rita Appiah (Purdue Univ.), Lefteri H. Tsoukalas (Purdue Univ.), Luciano Castillo (Purdue Univ.)
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