ML19336C987

Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors - Materials and Component Integrity Workshop - Dec 9-11, 2019

ML19336C987
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Advanced Non-Light Water Reactors - Materials and Component Integrity Workshop December 9-11, 2019 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission TWFN Auditorium Rockville, MD Program at a Glance Monday, December 9th, 2019 8:30 AM Opening Remarks Ray Furstenau, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Session I: Vendor Overview 8:45 AM Chair: John Monninger, Director, Division of Advanced Reactors and Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 8:45 AM Salt Composition, Corrosion Testing, and Tritium Control for the Kairos Power Fluoride-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor George Young, Kairos Power 9:00 AM Overview of LFTR: Materials and Components Kurt Harris, FLiBe Energy 9:15 AM Continuing HTGR Development in the USA - Family of Framatome HTGRs Farshid Shahrokhi, Framatome Inc.

9:30 AM Non-linear Mechanical Modeling in Materials Subject to Property Changes due to Neutron Irradiation Paul Kirchman, X-Energy 9:45 AM Materials Selection and Development for Advanced Reactors at TerraPower Greg Vetterick, TerraPower 10:00 AM Discussion 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM Session II: Technical & Research Activities - Overview A Chair: Eric Benner, Director, Division of Engineering and External Hazards, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 10:45 AM NRC Readiness for Licensing Advanced Reactors - Materials and Component Integrity Research Raj Iyengar, NRC 11:00 AM Overview of ONR Activities for Regulating Advanced Modular Reactors - A Structural Integrity Perspective Russ Green, ONR 11:15 AM Reviewing Innovative Reactor Designs - A CNSC Perspective Steve Cook, CNSC 11:30 AM Overview of Materials Research at the Department of Energys Office of Nuclear Energy Sue Lesica, DOE 11:45 AM IAEA Activities on Fast Reactors Technology

Vladimir Kriventsev, IAEA 12:00 PM Discussion 12:30 PM Lunch Session III: Technical & Research Activities - Overview B 1:30 PM Chair: Louise Lund, Director, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research Overview of reactor materials investigation with modelling and experimental 1:30 PM studies at CNL Mike Welland, Computational Techniques, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories 1:45 PM R&D activities for advanced reactors in JAEA Tai Asayama, JAEA 2:00 PM Material and Properties Development Needs for Design and Development of Commercially Viable GEN IV Reactors Mike Burke, EPRI 2:15 PM Advanced reactor technology irradiation programs at the Nuclear Research and Technology Group U.O. Bezerra de Oliveira, NRG 2:30 PM Structural Materials Research within the Gen IV International Forum Bill Corwin, DOE 2:45 PM Discussion

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 8:30 AM Session I: Graphite Materials - A Chair: TBD 8:30 AM Applying Brittle Materials Design Concepts in the Manufacture of Graphite and Ceramics for the 21st Century SMR Makuteswara Srinivasan, NUMARK 8:45 AM UK Experience of Graphite Moderated Reactors Russ Green, ONR 9:00 AM ASME Considerations for HTR Graphite and Composite Components Will Windes, INL 9:15 AM Graphite research and qualification activities at NRG T.O. van Staveren, NRG 9:30 AM Discussion 10:00 AM Break 10:15 AM Session II: Graphite Materials - B Chair: Will Windes, Idaho National Laboratory 10:15 AM Understanding Graphite Behavior in Nuclear Reactor Environments for Lifetime Predictions Anne Campbell, ORNL 10:30 AM The Chemistry of Graphite in FHRs and MSRs Raluca Scarlat, UC-Berkeley 10:45 AM Graphite Electrode behaviors and Its Application for Salt Purification Jinsuo Zhang, VA Tech 11:00 AM Discussion 11:30 PM Lunch 12:45 PM Session III: Materials Qualification Challenges - A Chair: Jeff Poehler, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 12:45 PM Metallurgical Challenges associated with using Grade 91 steels at Elevated Temperature Jonathan Parker, EPRI 1:00 PM Advanced Structural Materials for non-Light Water Reactors Steve Zinkle, U. of Tennessee 1:15 PM Challenges in qualifying advanced manufacturing technologies for high temperature nuclear service Mark Messner, ANL 1:30 PM Qualification of Materials for Elevated Temperature Nuclear Components Richard Wright, INL 1:45 PM Discussion 2:15 PM Break 2:30 PM Session IV: Materials Qualification Challenges - B Chair: Raj Iyengar, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 2:30 PM Challenges with ASME Code Qualifying Graphite Irradiation Effects in Test Reactors

Anne Campbell ORNL 2:45 PM Potential Material Issues for CNSC to License Advanced Reactors Xuejun Wei, CNSC 3:00 PM Realizing the Nuclear Materials Discovery and Qualification Initiative Matthew Kerr, INL 3:15PM Discussion

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019 8:30 AM Session I: Inspection, Monitoring, Surveillance Chair: Timothy Lupold, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 8:30 AM Development of technical basis for in-situ, passive surrogate materials surveillance for advanced non-LWRs Sam Sham, ANL 8:45 AM Progress Toward Bridging Harsh Environment Online Monitoring Gaps for Advanced Reactors Bill Glass, PNNL 9:00 AM A Vision for Advanced NDE Methods for Non-light Water Reactor Components Yarom Polsky, ORNL 9:15 AM Sodium cooled fast reactors - Japan's experience and future Tai Asayama, JAEA 9:30 AM Nondestructive evaluation in advanced reactors Greg Selby, EPRI 9:45 AM Discussion 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Session II: Molten Salt Chemistry Chair: Wendy Reed, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 10:30 AM Research reactor experiments to study materials and fuel salt performance U.O. Bezerra de Oliveira, NRG 10:45 AM TBD Raluca Scarlat, UC-Berkeley 11:00 AM Fundamental properties and Removal of Impurities in Molten Salt systems Jinsuo Zhang, VA Tech 11:15 AM Fluoride Salt Chemistry and Properties Matthew Memmott, BYU 11:30 AM Online Monitoring of Molten Salt Reactors Nathaniel Hoyt, ANL 11:45 AM Discussion 12:15 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Session III: Metallic Materials: Environmental Effects Chair: Michelle Hayes, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 1:30 PM Overview of Environmental Issues and Material Property Gaps for Commercial Viability of Advanced Reactors Mike Burke, EPRI 1:45 PM Environmental Effects in Liquid Metal Systems Todd Allen, U. of Michigan 2:00 PM Environmental Effects in High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)

Environments Kumar Sridharan, U. of Wisconsin 2:15 PM An Overview of Molten Salt Corrosion Research at ORNL Steve Raiman, ORNL 2:30 PM Discussion

3:00 PM Break 3:15 PM Wrap up and Summary Robert Tregoning, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 4:30 PM Adjourn