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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.
M. Zucchetti, M. Riva, B. Coppi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 68 | Number 3 | October 2015 | Pages 512-515
Technical Paper | Proceedings of TOFE-2014 | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-960
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The IGNIR collaboration between Italy and Russia is centred on the construction of the core of the Ignitor machine in Italy and its installation and operation within the TRINITI site (Troitsk, Russia). A Preliminary Safety Report is under preparation for the siting of the Ignitor experiment in Troitsk. A specific site has been selected, with characteristics determined from informations regarding TRINITI. This site has many positive characteristics, such as the presence of electrical facilities because of nearby distribution nodes, and the full availability of the required room for the arrangement of all Ignitor buildings. The results of the analyses, both regarding doses to population and personnel, and other environmental impacts, show that the TRINITI site in Troitsk is a consistent choice for Ignitor localisation, according to the safety and the environmental impact point of view.
