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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 RPSD
Tuesday, November 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EST|Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Jeffrey A. Favorite
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova
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Advanced Variance Reduction Application for Boiling Water Reactor Dose Analysis
10:00–10:20AM EST
Marc Harron (MPR Assoc.), Ryanne A. Kennedy (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Cooper (Silver Fir Software)
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Accuracy of the Standard Deviation Estimated with Correlated Sampling Using Batch Statistics
10:20–10:40AM EST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Michael Squire (Univ. Texas, San Antonio)
Neutronics Models for Evaluating Shielding in the SPARC Fusion Facility
10:40–11:00AM EST
Joshua T. Jones (MPR Assoc.), James M. Burke (MPR Assoc.), Andrew Cooper (Silver Fir Software), Andrea A. Saltos (Commonwealth Fusion Systems), Ryanne Kennedy (MPR Assoc.)
VERA Extensions for Advanced LWR Excore Radiation Transport Applications
11:00–11:20AM EST
Andrew Godfrey (Veracity Nuclear), Benjamin Collins (Veracity Nuclear), Micah Best (TAMU)
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