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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
Friday, December 3, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 12
Session Chair:
Robb Stewart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Alternate Chair:
Temi Adeyeye (Westinghouse)
Session Organizer:
W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Student Assistant:
Zayed Ahmed
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Comparative Reliability Study on Thermal Energy Storage Systems for Integrated Energy Systems
1:05–1:25PM EST
Samantha Sabatino (ORNL), Askin Guler Yigitoglu (ORNL)
Paper
Modeling of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage
1:25–1:45PM EST
Amey Shigrekar (INL), Trevor Casper (Univ. of Idaho), Richard Christensen (Univ. of Idaho)
Attachment — Supplemental Summary with Updated Figures
Modeling a Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor with Thermal Energy Storage Using Optimal Dispatch and SAM
1:45–2:05PM EST
Gabriel J. Soto (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Una Baker (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian White (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Ben Lindley (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Mike Wagner (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Experimental Investigation of Chemical Heat Pumps Using Composite Pellets for Temperature Augmentation
2:05–2:25PM EST
Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho)
Dynamic Model of Absorption Cycle for Chemical-Absorption Heat Pump for Process Heating Applications
2:25–2:45PM EST
Paul D. Armatis (Oregon State Univ.), Aman Gupta (Univ. of Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. of Idaho), Brian M. Fronk (Oregon State Univ.)
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