2013-2022 TEN-YEAR SITE PLAN - Idaho National Laboratory

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1-6 SECTION 1 OVERVIEW 1.1.4 User-Facility Model INL views its unique nuclear R&D capabilities and infrastructure as national assets to be available to universities, industry, national laboratories, international research organizations, and other federal agencies. DOE-NE seeks to involve the best experts from across the nuclear energy community in its research, including national and international partners from the government, as well as private and education sectors. INL seeks to offer its capabilities and related nuclear science and engineering infrastructure to these experts to advance DOE-NE research goals. Through the National Scientific User Facility (NSUF), INL offers outstanding irradiation and PIE capabilities to help researchers explore and understand the complex behavior of fuels and materials. In 2007, DOE designated the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) and associated PIE capabilities at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) as user facilities, providing universities, national laboratories, industry, other federal agencies, and international research institutions with greater access to them. Beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, management and funding of the INL NSUF will transfer from the Idaho Facilities Management program to the DOE Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Program. NSUF grants access to ATR, Advanced Test Reactor Critical (ATR-C) Facility, a sample library, and/or PIE capabilities to university-led scientific groups for major projects; access to any researcher for small-scale rapid turnaround projects; and competitive pricing for industry groups and other federal agencies. The program has expanded since the initial creation of the NSUF to offer irradiation and PIE instruments at partner universities. These include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, University T E N - Y E A R S I T E P L A N INL of Nevada at Las Vegas, University of California- Berkeley, and the Illinois Institute of Technology (which provides access to Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source). More recently, the program has expanded to include partner irradiation and materials testing capabilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Since its creation, the NSUF has made links to other major user facilities, the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center, the Shared Equipment Program (SHaRE) at ORNL, and the National Institute of Standards Center for Neutron Research. The NSUF also includes educational initiatives aimed at preparing nuclear science and engineering students to conduct nuclear energy research and experimentation. As a program, it also encourages teaming among universities, industry, and national laboratories. The research sponsored and funded by the NSUF links directly to DOE-NE mission accomplishments; there is also a link between the NSUF and the Nuclear Energy University Program, administered by the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES). In addition, working through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the NSUF is enabling industry to use INL capabilities. The NSUF Program, located within the CAES building, is prototyping the laboratory of the future, serving as a gateway to INL and expanding opportunities for access to its broader capabilities. To achieve this vision of a laboratory-wide user facility, INL proposes taking specific steps that will enhance the accessibility of INL capabilities to outside users. These changes include creating new laboratory space within the in-town Research Education Laboratory (REL), a leased facility planned for completion by 2013. This facility will enable visiting researchers to connect remotely to the MFC equipment, collaborate with research underway at MFC, and gain firsthand experience
I D A H O N A T I O N A L L A B O R A T O R Y TYSP OVERVIEW SECTION 1 with advanced instruments using low-level radioactive research materials. Targeted enhancements will also build on existing capabilities to create world-leading nuclear energy R&D infrastructure. Additionally, the NSUF will study the possibility of continued expansion to include fuel cycle laboratories, computational capability, thermal hydraulic facilities, and material processing centers. 1.1.5 Program-Driven Ten-Year Site Planning Process This INL TYSP links DOE-NE’s R&D mission goals to INL core capabilities and infrastructure, evaluates their current condition, and identifies and prioritizes infrastructure needs and capability gaps, as well as the most efficient and economic approaches to closing those gaps. The TYSP proposes an infrastructure plan within projected funding levels, and builds on the existing infrastructure, where possible, before building new, stand-alone facilities and capabilities. To meet this goal, the infrastructure strategy for INL for the next decade is focused on three key actions: 1) sustaining existing distinctive capabilities, 2) building on core and enabling capabilities to create world-leading capabilities and supplementing these capabilities through national and international partnerships, and 3) transitioning the laboratory to a user facility model and open campus environment. 1.1.6 Delivering the Ten-Year Vision Over the next 10 years, INL proposes a timeline to build upon its core capabilities needed to meet its 10-year vision. The timeline illustrated in Figure 1-1 highlights the major infrastructure elements planned to achieve this vision and reflects the strategy described in this TYSP based on integrating capabilities, facilities, and infrastructure. This timeline is further depicted in Appendix B, Figure B-1. 1.2 Assumptions INL has based its master planning effort on capabilities necessary to support the DOE-NE Roadmap to achieve the desired 10-year end-state. The following underlying assumptions also apply to this TYSP: 1. INL will continue to manage its infrastructure as a shared national resource and expand the user facility concept to encompass broader capabilities of the laboratory beyond fuels, materials, and irradiation test and examination services. 2. The number of uncleared, on-site visitors and collaborative partners will grow, increasing the need for unrestricted access to experimental capabilities and data visualization in an open campus environment as much as possible within the REC (e.g., CAES, a proposed new NSUF capability, the Energy Systems Laboratory [ESL], and the planned REL). 3. S&S requirements will continue to be more restrictive in some areas, with direct impact on management of special nuclear material (SNM). N&HS programs will require dedicated collateral secure space to support growing sensitive national security programs. These unclassified materials represent a significant national asset in support of critical national security programs. 4. The critical SNM asset inventory and associated S&S capabilities are unique assets that will attract other R&D organizations. 5. A better understanding of nuclear fuels and material performance in their nuclear environment, at the nanoscale and lower, is critical to the development of innovative fuels and materials required for tomorrow’s nuclear energy technologies. 1-7
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