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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.
Toshihisa Hatano, Kazuyoshi Sato, Masayuki Dairaku, Toshimasa Kuroda, Masanori Araki, Hideyuki Takatsu, Satoshi Sato, Kiyoshi Fukaya, Toshimasa Kurasawa, Ikuhide Tokami, Masato Akiba
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 752-756
Plasma-Facing Components: Analysis and Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963025
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A shielding blanket design in a fusion reactor such as ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) has been proposed to be a modular structure integrated with the first wall. In terms of the fabrication, HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing) method has been proposed for the joining of dispersion strengthened copper (DS-Cu) and type 316L stainless steel (SS316L) at FW. High heat flux tests of HIP bonded DS-Cu/SS316L first wall panel were performed at Particle Beam Engineering Facility in JAERI to investigate its thermo-mechanical performance. They consisted of four test campaigns. The former two campaigns simulated ITER normal operation conditions in terms of the temperature and strain at the HIP bonded interfaces between DS-Cu and SS316L, respectively. The latter two simulated disruption conditions. Under normal heat flux conditions, temperature responses of the first wall panel measured by the thermocouples agreed very well with those predicted by FEM analyses. On the other hand, ejection of a number of small particles from DS-Cu surface was observed during the last campaign with the high heat flux simulating disruptions.