The Materials and Fuels Complex at the Idaho National Laboratory offers a number of facilities for basic and applied nuclear research and development. The Hot Fuel Examination Facility has outstanding post- and interim-irradiation examination capabilities; the Analytical Laboratory offers wet chemistry analysis of irradiated and radioactive materials; and the Electron Microscopy Laboratory, a radiological facility, contains optical, scanning, and transmission electron microscopes. The INL PIE Users Guide contains detailed information for each of these facilities.
In addition to the INL PIE facilities, a number of partner facilities offer characterization capabilities that can be used on radioactive materials. The University of Michigan Irradiated Materials Complex offers the capability to conduct high temperature mechanical properties, and corrosion and stress corrosion cracking experiments on neutron irradiated materials in an aqueous environment. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Radio Chemistry Laboratories offer analytical transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction. The University of Wisconsin Electronic Microscopy Laboratory has the capability of examining neutron-irradiated transmission electron microscopy (TEM) specimens. The North Carolina State University PULSTAR reactor provides access to neutron scattering and imaging. Both Michigan and Wisconsin provide access to ion irradiation facilities.
The User Guides for each of these facilities provide detail on the capabilities offered.