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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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Is Hydrogen the Future of Nuclear Energy?
Charles W. Forsberg
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 3-10
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6962
Nuclear Production of Hydrogen as an Appropriate Technology
Paul Kruger
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 11-17
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6963
Economics of Meeting Peak Electricity Demand Using Hydrogen and Oxygen from Base-Load Nuclear or Off-Peak Electricity
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 18-26
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6964
An International Overview of Nuclear Hydrogen Production Programs
Gail H. Marcus
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 27-31
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6965
The High-Temperature Electrolysis Integrated Laboratory-Scale Experiment
Carl M. Stoots, James E. O'Brien, Keith Condie, Lisa Moore-McAteer, Gregory Housley, Joseph J. Hartvigsen, J. Stephen Herring
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 32-42
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6966
Analysis Model for Sulfur-Iodine and Hybrid Sulfur Thermochemical Cycles
Nicholas R. Brown, Seungmin Oh, Shripad T. Revankar, Cheikhou Kane, Salvador Rodriguez, Randall Cole, Jr., Randall Gauntt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 43-55
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6967
Synthesis of Hydrocarbon Fuels Using Renewable and Nuclear Energy
Ken Schultz, S. Locke Bogart, Richard P. Noceti, Anthony V. Cugini
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 56-63
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6968
Nuclear Hydrogen and Captured Carbon Dioxide for Alternative Liquid Fuels
B. D. Middleton, M. S. Kazimi, Min Wah Leung
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 64-75
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6969
Transient Analysis of Sulfur-Iodine Cycle Experiments and Very High Temperature Reactor Simulations Using MELCOR-H2
Sal B. Rodriguez, Randall O. Gauntt, Randy Cole, Fred Gelbard, Katherine McFadden, Tom Drennen, Billy Martin, David Louie, Louis Archuleta, Mohamed El-Genk, Jean-Michel Tournier, Flor Espinoza, Shripad T. Revankar, Karen Vierow
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 76-85
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6970
Regulatory Issues on the Safety Distance Between a VHTR and a H2 Production Facility and an Overpressure Prediction Using Correlations and a CFD Analysis for the JAEA Explosion Test in an Open Space
Hyung Seok Kang, Sang Baik Kim, Min-Hwan Kim, Won-Jae Lee, Hee Cheon No
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 86-100
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6971
Development of GAMMA Code as an Integrated Code Analyzing a Coupled Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor and Hydrogen Production Plant
Chang H. Oh, Hong S. Lim, Eung S. Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 101-112
Technical Paper | Special Issue on Nuclear Hydrogen Production, Control, and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6972
Steam Generator Component Sizing Model in a Combined Cycle of Power Conversion Unit for Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor
Chang H. Oh, J. Han, R. Barner, E. S. Kim, S. Sherman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 1 | April 2009 | Pages 113-120
Technical Note | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A6973
Thermophoretic Deposition in a Cylindrical Tube: Computations and Comparison with Experiments
Veera R. Gutti, Sudarshan K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 121-133
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7399
Evaluation of the Decay Heat Limits in Electrorefiners for Reprocessing Spent Metallic Fuels
Tsuguyuki Kobayashi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 134-145
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7400
Analysis of Low-Pressure ECC Injection Bypass of an ABWR During a Feedwater Line Break with RELAP5-3D/K
Thomas K. S. Liang, Chung-Yu Yang, Liang-Che Dai
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 146-155
Technical Papers | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7401
Low-Power Chirp Spread Spectrum Signals for Wireless Communication Within Nuclear Power Plants
Abdullah Kadri, Raveendra K. Rao, Jin Jiang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 156-169
Technical Papers | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-3
A Conceptual Process Study for Recovery of Uranium Alone from Spent Nuclear Fuel by Using High-Alkaline Carbonate Media
Kwang-Wook Kim, Dong-Yong Chung, Han-Bum Yang, Jea-Kwan Lim, Eil-Hee Lee, Kee-Chan Song, Kyuseok Song
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 170-179
Technical Papers | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7403
Integrated Efficiency Test for Pyrochemical Fuel Cycles
S. X. Li, D. Vaden, B. R. Westphal, G. L. Frederickson, R. W. Benedict, T. A. Johnson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 180-186
Technical Papers | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7404
Decreasing the Detection Limit of Copper for the Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis by Measuring the Activity of 64Cu Isotope from the Annihilation Peak
Nader M. A. Mohamed
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 187-196
Technical Papers | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7405
Effect of Mass Flow Rate on the Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient: Analysis for Constant Velocity and Constant Area Case
Piyush Sabharwall, Vivek Utgikar, Fred Gunnerson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 2 | May 2009 | Pages 197-200
Technical Note | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A7406
Dynamic Characteristics of Compact Fast-Spectrum Reactors
David I. Poston, Thomas F. Marcille, David D. Dixon, Benjamin W. Amiri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 204-214
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8835
Conceptual Design of a Lunar Regolith Clustered-Reactor System
John Darrell Bess
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 215-229
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8836
Impact Analysis for Candidate Space Reactor Core Concept Designs for Potential Criticality Study
Seokho H. Kim, George F. Flanagan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 230-239
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8837
System Modeling of Lunar Oxygen Production Using Fission Surface Power: Mass and Power Requirements
Christopher J. Steffen, Jr., Joshua E. Freeh, Diane L. Linne, Eric W. Faykus, Christopher A. Gallo, Robert D. Green
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 240-251
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8838
Dismantlement of the TSF-SNAP Reactor Assembly
Fred J. Peretz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 252-262
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8839
Fragmentation Calculations for Energetic Ions in Candidate Space Radiation Shielding Materials
L. K. Mansur, Y. M. Charara, S. B. Guetersloh, I. Remec, L. W. Townsend
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 263-272
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8840
Can the Equivalent-Sphere Model Approximate Organ Doses in Space Radiation Environments?
Z. W. Lin
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 273-282
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8841
Decision Analysis Based on AHP and GTST Methodologies with Application to CCF-Defense Strategies
Min Chull Kim, Inn Seock Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 283-294
Technical Paper | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-39
Magnetically Channeled IEC Trap Array Fusion Device for Interplanetary Missions
George H. Miley, Hiromu Momota, Linchun Wu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 166 | Number 3 | June 2009 | Pages 295-300
Technical Note | 2007 Space Nuclear Conference / Miscellaneous | doi.org/10.13182/NT09-A8843
