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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.
S. I. Bhuiyan, Anisur Rashid Khan, M. M. Sarker, M. Rahman, Z. Gulshan Ara, M. Musa, M. A. Mannan, I. Mele
Nuclear Technology | Volume 97 | Number 3 | March 1992 | Pages 253-263
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34633
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A data base for the TRIGAP code is generated for the 3-MW TRIGA MARK-II research reactor in Bangladesh. The library is created using the WIMS-D/4 code. Cross sections are calculated from zero burnup to 37% of initial 235U in 20 burnup steps. The created TRIGAP library is tested through practical calculations and is compared with experimental values or with values in the safety analysis report (SAR). Excess reactivity of the fresh core configuration is measured and determined to be 10.27 $, while a value of 10.267 $ is obtained using the generated library. By choosing burnup steps of 0, 50, 350, and 750 MW.h, the whole operating history is covered. The calculated temperature defect at 1 and 3 MW is 1.15 and 3.59 $ compared with the experimental values of 1.02 and 3.64 $, respectively. The xenon value obtained at 1 and 3 MW is 2.21 and 3.20 $, respectively, compared with 3.57 $ at 3 MW in the SAR. The TRIGAP code with its new library is used for calculating fast and thermal flux distributions close to values from the SAR. The temperature coefficient of low-enrichment uranium fuel, calculated for three different burnups, shows a good agreement with the SAR. The TRIGAP and WIMS-D/4 codes are applied to power-peaking calculations. Total peaking factors calculated as products of axial, radial, and hot rod peaking factors for four configurations are (a) the compact core with graphite reflector, 3.15; (b) the same core with water reflector, 3.39; (c) the core with a central thimble, graphite reflector, 5.01; and (d) the same core with a water reflector, 5.29. In the SAR, the total peaking factor for the compact core is 3.5 and with a central thimble, 5.63. Excellent agreement between calculations and measurements establishes the validity of the library.