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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.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuel Materials and Chemistry
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair:
David Andersson (LANL)
Alternate Chair:
Brian Wirth (UTK)
Track Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Brian Andersen (ORNL)
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A Meso-scale Two-phase Mixture Model for the Prediction of Boiling and Dryout in CRUD
Dongyeol Yeo (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Annalisa Manera (University of Michigan), Aaron Huxford (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
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CRUD Thermodynamics and Composition
Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Jason Rizk (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
CRUD and corrosion modeling at the atomic scale
Donald W. Brenner (North Carolina State University), Zsolt Rak (NCSU)
Simulating and Stopping Crud - Insights Learned from and Inspired by the CASL Program
Bren A. Philips (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Richard C. Martineau (Idaho National Laboratory), Cody J. Permann (Idaho National Laboratory), Derek R. Gaston (Idaho National Laboratory), Brian D. Wirth (University of Tennessee Knoxville), Kenneth J. McClellan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), David Andersson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chris Stanek (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Brian Kendrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Naiqiang Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jeff Deshon (Electric Power Research Institute), Daniel M. Wells (Electric Power Research Institute), Dennis F. Hussey (Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)), Andrew T. Nelson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Benjamin S. Collins (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Sidney Yip (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Akshay Dave (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alexandra R. Delmore (University of Wisconsin Madison), Gilberto Mota (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sean Robertson (Transatomic Power Corporation), Max Carlson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ittinop Dumnernchanvanit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Miaomiao Jin (Idaho National Laboratory), Michael P. Short (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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