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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.
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Panel|Session Chair: Erik Mader
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|10:00–11:30AM EST
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair: Cenk Guler
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|10:00–11:30AM EST
Session Chair: Zeses Karoutas
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair: Fausto Francescini
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair: Andrew Godfrey
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
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Panel|Session Chair: David Andersson
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair: Jason Hales
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair: David Andersson
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
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