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3-6 SECTION 3 CORE CAPABILITIES testing capabilities and engineering-scale wasteform development capabilities to support operations in FCF. Examples of material preparation for further examination include sectioning fuel rods to produce cross-section specimens on the pellet scale; preparing cladding sections for mechanical testing and micro-structural analysis; sorting, packaging, and cataloging hundreds to thousands of material test specimens from test reactor irradiations; and machining large pieces of in-core structural materials mined from decommissioned power reactors into test specimens. Upgrades to current HFEF characterization equipment will support continued nondestructive and destructive examination of a variety of fuel specimens required for DOE-NE, NNSA, and industry programs. In addition, INL will pursue specialized capabilities (i.e., a consolidated fuel-examination machine and a fuel-rod refabrication rig) for ongoing DOE-NE research. 3.3.1.2 Electron Microscopy Laboratory The EML houses a transmission electron microscope, a dual-beam focused-ion beam (FIB) fitted with electron backscatter diffraction and microchemical analysis capabilities, and a state-of-theart Scanning Electron Microscope fitted with a Wavelength Dispersive Spectrometer with software that allows semi-quantitative analysis of heavy actinides. The EML will continue to function in this capacity until the IMCL and a new imaging suite – a microscopy laboratory recently installed at the CAES – are fully functional. The EML will then transition to providing needed generalpurpose radiological laboratory space. 3.3.1.3 Analytical Laboratory T E N - Y E A R S I T E P L A N INL The AL focuses on chemical and isotopic characterization of unirradiated and irradiated fuels and materials. It receives small quantities of irradiated material from the HFEF, performing dissolution and dilution in a series of analytical hot cells, followed by analysis of the diluted materials using instrumentation equipped with hoods or gloveboxes for radiological control. The AL houses many advanced instruments, including an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer, two Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometers, and instruments for determining the fundamental thermodynamic properties of actinide-bearing materials. The AL will continue its current mission with regular upgrades. 3.3.1.4 Fuels and Applied Science Building The FASB has three missions: (1) fuel development, (2) materials characterization, and (3) irradiated materials testing. Its east wing has been redeveloped as a low-level, thermophysical properties laboratory, outfitted with equipment for sample preparation, optical microscopy, electron microscopy, and thermodynamic properties determination. A laboratory in the west wing is being equipped with a suite of lead-shielded gamma cells to conduct environmental crack-growth-rate and fracture-toughness testing on irradiated materials. Some of the fuel development equipment will be moved to the Contaminated Equipment Storage Building (CESB) to enable more PIE work at FASB. 3.3.2 Ten-Year End-State Capabilities As articulated in the INL Strategic Plan for World- Leading PIE Capabilities (INL 2009), INL will establish two modern facilities, each of which will be unique in the world with respect to comprehensive characterization and analysis of nuclear fuels
I D A H O N A T I O N A L L A B O R A T O R Y TYSP CORE CAPABILITIES SECTION 3 and materials – more specifically, nuclear fuels and high-dose (highly activated) nonfuel materials such as cladding. These facilities will provide operational flexibility and streamlined workflow processes that can be reconfigured to meet evolving mission requirements. Facility design will incorporate modularization to facilitate equipmentspecific shielding and flexibility for future equipment development, configuration alteration, and ease of replacement. 3.3.2.1 Irradiated Materials Characterization Laboratory The IMCL will be the first facility of its type in the United States designed specifically for advanced instrumentation and equipment. Nonreactor nuclear facilities in the United States were state-of-the-art when they were constructed; however, these facilities were not designed to accommodate advanced microstructural characterization equipment, rendering them obsolete for this purpose. The IMCL will contain space for installation of instruments and equipment within shielding structures that can be redesigned and refitted whenever necessary. The IMCL will have mechanical systems that tightly control temperature, electrical and magnetic noise, and vibration to the standards required for advanced analytical equipment. Designed as a multipurpose facility suitable for many different missions over its projected 40-year life, the IMCL will first house modern, state-of-the-art PIE instrumentation. The IMCL will routinely handle and perform microscale and nanoscale characterization of material specimens and irradiated fuel samples in the mass range of tens of grams down to micrograms. Its capabilities will include an Electron Probe Micro Analyzer, micro-x-ray diffraction, dual beam FIB, field-emission-gun scanning-transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, scanning laser thermal diffusivity, limited mechanical testing capability, and sample preparation capability. The facility design will allow easy routine maintenance of the instruments. Coupled with the CAES, and new capability to be added to the REL, this suite of instruments will provide DOE-NE with some of the powerful, state of-the-art characterization tools used successfully to overcome material performance limitations in other branches of materials science. The IMCL will also serve as a test-bed for developing the infrastructure and protocols required for remote operation of advanced research equipment by INL and its research partners, in preparation for constructing and operating a line item PIE facility, which will further expand U.S. nuclear energy research capabilities. The IMCL is a General Plant Project that is expected to begin operation in 2012; DOE-ID approved Critical Decision-0 in August 2009 (PLN-3128). 3.3.2.2 Advanced Postirradiation Examination Capability Although the IMCL represents a significant advance over current U.S. nuclear energy research and development capability, the transition to a full-spectrum nuclear research capability will require further expansion into a new multiprogram line-item facility capable of handling much larger samples. As the project matures and the capability is built over the next 6 to 10 years, some of the capability demonstrated in the IMCL may transition to the new facility. This would be consistent with the useful lifetime of such research equipment and would provide the newer facility with state-ofthe-art instrumentation. The line item facility will be a third-generation, PIE analytical laboratory that will further consolidate and expand capabilities that function on the micro, nano, and atomic scale. Options for locating this facility within MFC are currently under review. DOE-NE approved the 3-7
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