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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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Americans’ Views of Fusion Energy: Implications for Sustainable Public Support
Kuhika Gupta, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Joseph Ripberger, Carol Silva, Andrew Fox, Will Livingston
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 1-17
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2328457
OpenMC Interpretation of FNS SINBAD Shielding Benchmark Experiments
Bamidele Ebiwonjumi, Stefano Segantin, Ethan Peterson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 18-31
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2323747
Numerical Survey of the Sponge Mechanism for Reducing Tritium Retention in Fusion Reactors
L. H. Shao, Z. X. Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 32-44
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2327817
Friction Welding of ETP-Cu Plate to SS304L Round Bar: An Experimental Study on Asymmetrical Dissimilar Metal Joints
Tapan Patel, Hardik D. Vyas, M. R. Jana, P. Chaudhuri, U. K. Baruah
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 45-60
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2332028
An Improved Voltage Control Method for EAST Fast Control Power Supply
Haihong Huang, Zhao Chen, Haixin Wang
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 61-72
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2339666
Recent Upgrade of the Magnetic Diagnostic System in the Alvand-U Tokamak
Yahya Sadeghi, Hossain Rasouli, Farid Sedighi, Mehdi Jafargholi, Samaneh Yarmahmoodi, Hojjat Babaee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 73-81
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2316989
Influence of Magnetic Field Configuration in Helicon Negative Ion Source on Increase of the Efficiency of NNBI Heating System
Samaneh Fazelpour, Hossein Sadeghi, Amir Chakhmachi, Morteza Habibi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | January 2025 | Pages 82-98
Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2326378
Monte Carlo Simulations of the Interaction of 55Mn with 14.7-MeV Protons Produced by D+3He Fusion Reaction
Emil Mammadzada, Ayhan Kara
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 99-108
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2347685
L-H Transition Initiated by Limit Cycle Oscillation Transition in the Globus-M Tokamak
A. A. Belokurov, L. G. Askinazi, V. K. Gusev, E. O. Kiselev, G. S. Kurskiev, A. V. Petrov, Yu. V. Petrov, A. M. Ponomarenko, S. Yu. Tolstyakov, A. Yu. Yashin
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 109-117
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2362530
Observations on Macroscopic Surface Modification and Oxidation of Tungsten and Tungsten Carbide in Laser Focus in Air
Minsuk Seo, Shukai Yu, Venkatraman Gopalan, A. Leigh Winfrey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 118-131
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2343972
Magneto-Micropolar Nanofluid Flow Over a Convectively Heated Sheet with Nonlinear Radiation, Chemical Reaction, and Viscous Dissipation
D. Swapna, K. Govardhan, G. Narender
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 132-143
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2339700
Impact of Reverse Buoyancy on Heat and Mass Transfer in MHD Flow of PbLi Within a Poloidal Duct in a Typical DCLL Liquid Breeder Blanket
Wen-Xuan Zhang, Hong-Na Zhang, Xiao-Bin Li, Feng-Chen Li
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 144-160
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2343975
Numerical Calculations of Liquid-Metal Magnetohydrodynamic Flows in Rectangular Ducts with Sudden Contractions
Hiroshige Kumamaru
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 161-178
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2352660
Fabrication of NBI Ion Source Back Plate and its High Heat Flux Experiment
M. R. Jana, Tapan M. Patel, U. K. Baruah, S. M. Belsare, K. S. Bhope, B. Choksi, N. S. Contractor, S. S. Khirwadkar, M. Mehta, P. K. Mokaria, N. P. Patel, T. H. Patel, R. Swamy, S. Tripathi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 81 | Number 2 | February 2025 | Pages 179-190
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2024.2366732
