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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 MSTD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Columbia 9
Session Chair:
Troy Munro
Alternate Chair:
Kenneth J. Geelhood
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Brian Merritt
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Coupling Methodology Between TRANSURANUS and the Multi-Dimensional Fuel Performance Code OFFBEAT
3:10–3:30PM EST
Alessandro Scolaro (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Paul Van Uffelen (European Commission), Arndt Schubert (European Commission), Ivor Clifford (Paul Scherrer Institut), Andreas Pautz (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
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First Steps Towards Large Strain Analysis in OFFBEAT
3:30–3:50PM EST
Edoardo Luciano Brunetto (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Alessandro Scolaro (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Carlo Fiorina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andreas Pautz (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Assessment of Fuel Relocation and Fuel Rod Contact on Fuel Behaviors During a Design Basis Accident of LOCA
3:50–4:10PM EST
Joosuk Lee (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Young-Seok Bang (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety)
Sensitivity Analysis on Silicon Carbide Failure Probability in TRISO
4:10–4:30PM EST
Carlotta G. Ghezzi (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Giovanni Pastore (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Brian D. Wirth (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville), Nicholas R. Brown (Univ. of Tenn., Knoxville)
Evaluation of Anisotropic Interfacial Properties of Alpha U via Molecular Dynamics
4:30–4:50PM EST
Khadija Mahbuba (NC State Univ.), Benjamin W. Beeler (NC State Univ.), Andrea Jokisaari (INL)
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