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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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Foreword: Special Issue on the Sixth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies
Richard Wood
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Page 1
doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11477
Lessons Learned from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Digital System Risk Research
Steven A. Arndt, Alan Kuritzky
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 2-7
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11478
Wireless Sensor Applications in Nuclear Power Plants
H. M. Hashemian, C. J. Kiger, G. W. Morton, B. D. Shumaker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 8-16
Technical Note | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-1
Design of Sensor Placement for an Integral Pressurized Water Reactor Using Fault Diagnostic Observability and Reliability Criteria
Fan Li, Belle R. Upadhyaya
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 17-25
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11480
Fault Diagnosis in Induction Motors Using the Hilbert-Huang Transform
J. A. Antonino-Daviu, M. Riera-Guasp, M. Pineda-Sanchez, R. Puche-Panadero, R. B. Pérez, P. Jover-Rodriguez, A. Arkkio
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 26-34
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11481
An Adaptive Model for Expanded Process Monitoring
M. Humberstone, B. Wood, J. Henkel, J. W. Hines
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 35-45
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11482
Damage Assessment Technologies for Prognostics and Proactive Management of Materials Degradation
L. J. Bond, S. R. Doctor, J. W. Griffin, A. B. Hull, S. N. Malik
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 46-55
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT173-46
Instrumentation for Materials Irradiation Tests in Hanaro
Bong Goo Kim, Kee-Nam Choo, Jae Min Sohn, Sung Jae Park, Young Ki Kim, Young Jin Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 56-65
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Materials for Nuclear Systems | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11484
ATR NSUF Instrumentation Enhancement Efforts
Joy L. Rempe, Mitchell K. Meyer, Darrell L. Knudson, Keith G. Condie, Joshua E. Daw, S. Curtis Wilkins
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 66-77
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11485
Instrument Capabilities and Developments at the Halden Reactor Project
Steinar Solstad, Rudi Van Nieuwenhove
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 78-85
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11486
Advanced In-Pile Measurements of Fast Flux, Dimensions, and Fission Gas Release
J-F. Villard, M. Schyns
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 1 | January 2011 | Pages 86-97
Technical Paper | NPIC&HMIT Special / Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11487
Sodium-CO2 Interaction in a Supercritical CO2 Power Conversion System Coupled with a Sodium Fast Reactor
Jae-Hyuk Eoh, Hee Cheon No, Yong-Hwan Yoo, Seong-O Kim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 99-114
Technical Paper | Fast Neutron Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11541
An Axially Heterogeneous Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Designed to Transmute Minor Actinides
Samuel E. Bays, J. Stephen Herring, James Tulenko
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 115-134
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11542
Seismic Isolation for Advanced Fast Reactors
Yu Tang, Christopher Grandy, Ralph Seidensticker
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 135-152
Technical Paper | Fission Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11543
Reliability Prediction of Passive Systems with Multiple Degradation Measures
Luciano Burgazzi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 153-161
Technical Paper | Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11544
An Evaluation of the Annular Fuel and Bottle-Shaped Fuel Concepts for Sodium Fast Reactors
Matthew Memmott, Jacopo Buongiorno, Pavel Hejzlar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 162-175
Technical Paper | Fuel Design/Defects/ Examination | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11545
Computational Model of the Mark-IV Electrorefiner: Two-Dimensional Potential and Current Distributions
Robert O. Hoover, Supathorn Phongikaroon, Michael F. Simpson, Tae-Sic Yoo, Shelly X. Li
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 176-182
Technical Paper | Pyrometallurgical Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11546
Precipitation Behavior of Dicesium Tetravalent Plutonium Hexanitrate in Cooling Crystallization of Uranyl Nitrate Hexahydrate
Masaumi Nakahara, Tsutomu Koizumi, Kazunori Nomura
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 183-190
Technical Paper | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11547
Advanced Remote Maintenance Design for Pilot-Scale Centrifugal Contactors
Jack D. Law, David H. Meikrantz, Troy G. Garn, Lawrence L. Macaluso
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 191-199
Technical Paper | High Level Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11548
Production and Characterization of ZrC-UC Inert Matrix Composite Fuel for Gas Fast Reactors
Gokul Vasudevamurthy, Travis W. Knight, Thad M. Adams, Elwyn Roberts
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 200-209
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Fuels | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11549
Evaluation of the White Neutron Beam Spectrum for Single-Event Effects Testing at the RCNP Cyclotron Facility
Yosuke Iwamoto, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Yukio Sakamoto, Atsushi Tamii, Kichiji Hatanaka, Keiji Takahisa, Keiichi Nagayama, Hiroaki Asai, Kenji Sugimoto, Isamu Nashiyama
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 210-217
Technical Paper | Techniques for Measurements of Nuclear Data | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11550
Extending Sodium Fast Reactor Driver Fuel Use to Higher Temperatures
Douglas L. Porter, Conor B. Hilton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 2 | February 2011 | Pages 218-225
Technical Note | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11551
Dynamic Simulations of Advanced Fuel Cycles
Steven J. Piet, Brent W. Dixon, Jacob J. Jacobson, Gretchen E. Matthern, David E. Shropshire
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 227-238
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycles and Their Characteristics | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11658
Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence in a Rod Cluster
Constantine P. Tzanos, Maxim Popov, Fred Mendonca
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 239-250
Technical Paper | One-Phase Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11659
Selection of Core Outlet Temperature and Impacts on Fast Reactor Economics
A. Moisseytsev, E. Hoffman, C. Grandy
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 251-269
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11660
Photon Buildup Factors in Laminated Dual-Layer Shields
Adam Davis, Donald J. Dudziak, Man-Sung Yim, David McNelis, H. Omar Wooten
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 270-288
Technical Paper | Radiation Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-110
A Centrifugal Contactor Design to Facilitate Remote Replacement
David H. Meikrantz, Troy G. Garn, Jack D. Law, Lawrence L. Macaluso
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 289-299
Technical Paper | Chemical Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11662
Solidification of Ln Oxides Containing Volatile Chlorides from Pyrochemical Process
Byung-Gil Ahn, Hwan-Seo Park, In-Tae Kim, Han-Soo Lee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 300-309
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management and Disposal | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11663
Synthesis of Uranium Oxide Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solutions
Shameem Hasan, Tushar K. Ghosh
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 310-317
Technical Paper | Materials for Nuclear Fuels | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11664
Carbon Nanoparticle Generation, Collection, and Characterization Using a Spark Generator and a Thermophoretic Deposition Cell
S. R. Boddu, V. R. Gutti, R. M. Meyer, T. K. Ghosh, R. V. Tompson, S. K. Loyalka
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 318-326
Technical Paper | Miscellaneous | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11665
Activation of Liquid Argon in the ATLAS Calorimeter by High-Energy Hadrons
Vincent Hedberg, Mikhail Morev, Marco Silari, Zuzana Zajacová
Nuclear Technology | Volume 173 | Number 3 | March 2011 | Pages 327-331
Technical Note | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A11666
