b'2015Irradiated Materials Characterization Laboratory The IMCL, at INLs Materials and Fuels Complex (formerly Argonne National Laboratory-West), incorporates many features designed to allow researchers to safely and efficiently prepare and conduct microstructural-level investigations on irradiated fuel. Its design provides modular radiological shielding and confinement systems for advanced characterization instruments that are sensitive to vibration, temperature and electromagnetic interference. The shielded instruments allow characterization of highly radioactive fuels and materials at the micro, nano and atomic levelsthe scale at which irradiation damage processes occur.71'