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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.
Alex Wekhof, Richard R. Smith, Sidney S. Medley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 462-470
Technical Note | Plasma Heating System | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20868
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The peak energy, energy broadening, and neutral current fractions for the E, E/2, and E/3 energy components of the prototype Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor 120-keV deuterium neutral beam source were measured on the Neutral Beam System Test Facility at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory using a 127-deg swept electrostatic energy analyzer provided by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The results were compared with Doppler shift spectroscopy measurements, taking into account the different geometrical factors for both methods. The average neutral current fractions for the E, E/2, and E/3 atomic species components measured with the electrostatic analyzer and extrapolated to the target area were 0.35, 0.47, and 0.18, respectively, which agreed with the spectroscopic results to within 5%. For all species, a 1/e full-width energy broadening of ∆.E/E ≅ 4% was observed for an analyzer energy resolution of both ∼4 and 1%. This width is not in contradiction with the energy broadening expected due to Franck-Condon dissociation effects. The peak energies for the E, E/2, and E/3 components were within ∼4% of the rated values, but consistently on the low side of the standard deviation.