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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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Feasibility Study of a Proliferation-Resistant Fuel Form for Plutonium Recycling
Sukesh K. Aghara, Carl A. Beard
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 1-9
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3253
IIST and BETHSY Counterpart Tests on a PWR Total Loss-of-Feedwater Transient with Two Different Bleed-and-Feed Scenarios
Tay-Jian Liu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 10-27
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3254
Percolation Cooling of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Lower Head by Way of Thermal Cracking and Gap Formation
K. L. Thomsen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 28-46
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3255
Transmutation of 129I Using an Accelerator-Driven System
Kenji Nishihara, Hideki Takano
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 47-59
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3256
Structure and Properties of Chromium- and Zinc-Oxide Layers Formed on Zircaloy-2 in High-Temperature Water
Orlin L. Blajiev, Chihiro Matsuura, Daisuke Hiroishi, Kenkichi Ishigure
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 1 | January 2002 | Pages 60-71
Technical Paper | Radioisotopes | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3257
High Local Power Densities Permissible at Siemens Pressurized Water Reactors
Klaus Kuehnel, Klaus-Deiter Richter, Gerhard Drescher, Ivo Endrizzi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 73-83
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3258
Fast Burner Reactor Devoted to Minor Actinide Incineration
Nadia Messaoudi, Jean Tommasi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 84-96
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3259
Reactivity, Isotopic, and Thermal Steady-State Analysis of Homogeneous Thoria-Urania Fuel
Eric P. Loewen, Kevan D. Weaver, Judith K. Hohorst
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 97-110
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3260
Nuclide Composition Benchmark Data Set for Verifying Burnup Codes on Spent Light Water Reactor Fuels
Yoshinori Nakahara, Kenya Suyama, Jun Inagawa, Ryuji Nagaishi, Setsumi Kurosawa, Nobuaki Kohno, Mamoru Onuki, Hiroki Mochizuki
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 111-126
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-2
H Control Theory Applied to Xenon Control for Load-Following Operation of a Nuclear Reactor
Sung Goo Chi, Nam Zin Cho
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 127-138
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plany Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-31
Removal of Metal-Oxide Layers Formed on Stainless and Carbon Steel Surfaces by Excimer Laser Irradiation in Various Atmospheres
Yutaka Kameo, Mikio Nakashima, Takakuni Hirabayashi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 139-146
Technical Paper | Decontamination/Decommissioning | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3263
An Optimization Scheme for High-Level-Waste Removal Sequencing Using ProdMod
Pran K. Paul, Michael V. Gregory, Tunc Aldemir
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 147-162
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3264
Application of Autoregressive Models to In-Service Estimation of Transient Response for LMFBR Process Instrumentation
Masashi Ueda, Katsuma Tomobe, Keiichi Setoguchi, Akira Endou
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 2 | February 2002 | Pages 163-168
Technical Note | Materials | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3265
Monte Carlo Simulation of the TRIGA Mark II Benchmark Experiment with Burned Fuel
Robert Jeraj, Tomaz Zagar, Matjaz Ravnik
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 169-180
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3266
Iodine Behavior Under Conditions Relating to Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Fariborz Taghipour, Greg J. Evans
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 181-193
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3267
Simulation of Free-Surface Flows with Heat Transfer and Phase Transitions and Application to Corium Spreading in the EPR
Ralf Wittmaack
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 194-212
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3268
A New Assessment of RELAP5-3D Using a General Electric Level Swell Problem
David L. Aumiller, Edward T. Tomlinson, William G. Clarke
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 213-227
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT137-213
A Reactive Transport Model for Oxidative Dissolution of Spent Fuel and Release of Nuclides Within a Defective Canister
Longcheng Liu, Ivars Neretnieks
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 228-240
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3270
Thermohydrological Effects on a Nonreactive Aqueous Species in Unsaturated Fractured Geologic Materials
David W. Esh, Barry E. Scheetz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 241-251
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3271
Impact of the Nuclear Option on the Environment and the Economy
Upendra S. Rohatgi, Jae H. Jo, John C. Lee, Robert A. Bari
Nuclear Technology | Volume 137 | Number 3 | March 2002 | Pages 252-264
Technical Paper | Environmental Science, Technology, and Effects | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3272
