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ANS Student Conference 2025
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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.
Technical Session|Sponsored by MCD
Wednesday, November 15, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Jefferson East
Session Chair:
Shikha Prasad (SLB)
Alternate Chair:
Miriam Kreher (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Sebastian Schunert (INL)
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An Analysis of Two Variance Deconvolution Approaches for Stochastic Media Radiation Transport Using Conditional Point Sampling (CoPS)
10:00–10:20AM EST
Dominic Lioce (Univ. California, Berkeley), Aaron J. Olson (Sandia), Kayla B. Clements (Oregon State), Anil K. Prinja (Univ. New Mexico), Todd S. Palmer (Oregon State)
Paper
Leveraging Geospatial Statistical Methods for Prediction of Radioactive Hotspots at Former Uranium Mine Sites
10:20–10:40AM EST
Nancy L. Glenn Griesinger (Texas Southern Univ.), Mark C. Harvey (Texas Southern Univ.)
Accelerating Finite Element Analysis Using a Multi-Fidelity Computational Scheme
10:40–11:00AM EST
Ian M. Aranda (LANL), Jean C. Ragusa (TAMU), Vedant K. Mehta (LANL)
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Preliminary Results for Uncertainty Quantification on Asymptotic Hydrogen Redistribution in a Prototypical Yttrium-Hydride Moderated Heat-Pipe-Cooled Microreactor
11:00–11:20AM EST
Quentin Faure (NCSU), Vincent Laboure (INL), Stefano Terlizzi (INL)
The Effect of Point Reactor Kinetics Solvers on the Accuracy of Nuclear Reactor Simulations
11:20–11:40AM EST
Thabit Abuqudaira (TAMU), Pavel V. Tsvetkov (TAMU), Piyush Sabharwall (INL)
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