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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.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Wednesday, December 1, 2021|2:35–4:00PM EST |Jefferson
Session Chair:
Lance Garrison
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Alternate Chair:
Valeriia Starovoitova
Student Assistant:
Jaden Miller
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Hand-Portable Accelerator for Radioactive Isotope Sources Replacement
2:40–3:00PM EST
Sergey V. Kutsaev (RadiaBeam), Ronald Agustsson (RadiaBeam), Robert Berry (RadiaBeam), Salime Boucher (RadiaBeam), David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft), Amirari Diego (RadiaBeam), Dmitry Gavryushkin (RadiaBeam), Ken Shulze (RadiaBeam), Alexander Smirnov (RadiaBeam), Kirill Taletski (RadiaBeam)
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A Portable X-ray Source Based on Dielectric Accelerators
3:00–3:20PM EST
Chunguang Jing (Euclid Beamlabs LLC), Roman Kostin (Euclid Beamlabs LLC), Pavel Avrakohv (Euclid Beamlabs LLC), Alexei Kanareykin (Euclid Beamlabs LLC)
Novel X-ray Sources as Replacements for Isotopes in Irradiation Applications
3:20–3:40PM EST
Mark Eaton (Stellarray), Ronald Hellmer (Stellarray), Zhe Su (Stellarray), Shuo Chneg (Stellarray)
Direct Comparison of Material Characteristics Following Novel Sterilization Exposures
3:40–4:00PM EST
James A. McCoy (Becton Dickinson)
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