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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.
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A Study of Options for the Deployment of Large Fusion Power Plants
John Sheffield, William Brown, Gary Garrett, James Hilley, Dennis McCloud, Joan Ogden, Thomas Shields, Lester Waganer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 1-36
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST40-1-1
Prediction of Performance in ITER-FEAT
Hiroshi Matsumoto, Pietro Barabaschi, Yoshiki Murakami
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 37-51
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A178
Electrical Energy Requirements for Accelerator and Fusion Neutrons
Daniel L. Jassby, John A. Schmidt
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 52-55
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A179
Virtual Cathode in a Stationary Spherical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement
Hiromu Momota, George H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 56-65
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A180
Interface Current Integral Transport Methods for the Calculation of Neutral Atom Transport in the Edge Region of Fusion Plasmas
Weston M. Stacey, John Mandrekas, Robert Rubilar
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 66-78
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A181
Experimental Investigation of Magnetohydrodynamic Effects Caused by a Manifold Circular Pipe
Zengyu Xu, Chuanjie Pan, Wenhao Wei
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 79-85
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A182
Possible Explanation of 4He Production in a Pd/D2 System by the TNCF Model
Hideo Kozima, Masayuki Ohta, Mitsutaka Fujii, Kunihito Arai, Hitoshi Kudoh
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 86-90
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A183
Experimental Observation of Nuclear Reactions in Palladium and Uranium - Possible Explanation by Hydrex Mode
J. Dufour, D. Murat, X. Dufour, J. Foos
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 1 | July 2001 | Pages 91-106
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A184
Possible Generation of Self-Magnetic Fields
Thomas J. Dolan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 119-124
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A185
Termination of Plasma Discharge by High-Z Liquid Impurity Jet Injection in a Tokamak Reactor
Yasuyuki Itoh, Yoshiki Murakami, Satoshi Nishio
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 125-132
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A186
Radioactivity Sputtered from Cooling-Pipe Materials into Coolant in the ITER Cooling System
Bangjiao Ye, Yoshimi Kasugai, Yujiro Ikeda, Yangmei Fan, Rongdian Han
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 133-138
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A187
Theoretical Model of the Probability of Fusion Between Deuterons Within Deformed Crystalline Lattices with Microcracks at Room Temperature
Fulvio Frisone
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 139-146
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A188
Search for 3He and 4He in Arata-Style Palladium Cathodes I: A Negative Result
W. Brian Clarke
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 147-151
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A189
Search for 3He and 4He in Arata-Style Palladium Cathodes II: Evidence for Tritium Production
W. Brian Clarke, Brian M. Oliver, Michael C. H. McKubre, Francis L. Tanzella, Paolo Tripodi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 2 | September 2001 | Pages 152-167
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A190
A 2-D Numerical Simulation of ITER-FEAT Disruptive Hot Plasma-Wall Interaction and Model Validation Against Disruption Simulation Experiments
H. Würz, S. Pestchanyi, I. Landman, B. Bazylev, V. Tolkach, F. Kappler
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 191-246
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A191
Directional Couplers-Polarimeters for High-Power Corrugated Waveguide Transmission Lines
A. Simonetto, G. Solari, F. Gandini, G. Granucci, V. Muzzini, C. Sozzi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 247-252
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A192
Steady-State Amplifier at Megawatt Level for LHD ICRF Heating
Tetsuo Seki, Ryuhei Kumazawa, Takashi Mutoh, Fujio Shimpo, Goro Nomura, Tetsuo Watari, Kenji Saito, Yanping Zhao
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 253-264
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A193
Thermal Shock Strength of Carbon-Carbon Composite by Laser Irradiation Technique Based on Shear Strength Criterion
Hong-Wei Li, Shigeyasu Amada, Shigeru Akiyama
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 40 | Number 3 | November 2001 | Pages 265-273
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A194
