Monday, Sept. 9
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720.
8.30am – 11am Conference Welcome & Opening Talks (Chair: Will Windes, Idaho National Laboratory)
Max Fratoni (UC Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering Department Chair)
Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley, INGSM-24 Conference Chair)
Anthony Wickham (Nuclear Technology Consultancy, Past INGSM-23 Conference Chair)
Opening Talks Session Chair: Will Windes (Idaho National Laboratory)
Gerhard Strydom (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)
Ke Shen (Hunan University, Changsha China)
Jim Reed (Électricité de France, UK)
Raj Iyengar (USA Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
11am – 11.20am | Break
11.20am – 12.40pm | Technical Session 1: Functional Requirements (Chair: Raluca O. Scarlat, UC Berkeley)
11.20-11.40 TS1.1 Inspection of operating reactors continues to provide surprises. James Reed (EDF Energy)
11.40-12.00 TS1.2 Qualification of ET-10 Graphite for the Hermes Reactor. James McGladdery, Jae Choi, Camilla Stitt, Pierre-Alexandre Juan, Gabriel Meric (Kairos Power).
12.00-12.20 TS1.3 The Requirements of Graphite Material Property Models to Support Extended Operation. Rory Miller, M. Bradford (EDF Energy), R. Gray (Frazer-Nash Consultancy UK)
12.20 -12.40 TS1.4 Oxidation of Graphite and the Impact on Design and Operation. Valentina Angelici, Bri Sheard (MPR Associates, LLC), Samuel Baylis, Timothy Lucas (XEnergy)
12.40pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2pm-3.40pm | Technical Session 2: Irradiation (Chair: Athanasia Tzelepi, Nuclear National Laboratory)
2.00-2.20 TS2.1 Graphite Matrix Pilot Plant and Characterization Laboratory at the National Nuclear Laboratory. Rachel Smith, M. Crelling, J. Dinsdale-Potter, J. McGladdery, S. Wilkinson and A. Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory Sellafield UK)
2.20-2.40 TS2.2 Efforts Supporting Graphite Qualification for the Xe-100 Reactor. Anne A. Campbell, Josina W. Geringer, Melanie M. O’Connell, Adrian M. Schrell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Samuel Baylis, Timothy Lucas (X Energy, LLC.)
2.40-3.00 TS2.3 NRG’s graphite irradiation projects for SIAMC for HTR application. C. Li, Tjark O. van Staveren (Nuclear Research & consultancy Group (NRG), H. Wu, H. Yang (Sinosteel Advanced Materials Corporation (SIAMC)).
3.00-3.20TS2.4 Physics-Informed Irradiated Graphite Material Model. Michael Saitta, Florentius Johannes van Zanten (MPR Associates Inc.), Samuel Baylis (X Energy, LLC.)
3.20-3.40 TS2.5 Comprehensive characterization of radiation damage in high energy accelerator collimator materials. David J. Sprouster (State University of New York Stony Brook), N. Charitonidis, P. Simon, (CERN). M. Whitaker (State University of New York Stony Brook), H. Zhong, S. Ghose, Z. Zhong (Brookhaven National Laboratory), E. Quaranta, J. Guardia-Valenzuela, C. Accettura (State University of New York Stony Brook), R. Assmann (DESY Hamburg), A. Bertarelli, S. Redaelli (State University of New York Stony Brook), Z. Kotsina (Kurchatov Institute Moscow), A.I. Ryazanov (National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece), Lance Snead (State University of New York Stony Brook).
3.40pm – 4.20pm | Break and Poster Session 1: Applications, Irradiation, and Oxidation
PS1.1 Science-based development of ASTM standard tests for graphite-based fuel pebbles. Alexandros Spyromilios, Peter Hosemann, Kyriakos Komvopoulos (UC Berkeley), Assel Aitkaliyeva (University of Florida), Anne Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Pete Pappano, Daniel Brown (X-Energy).
PS1.2 Characterization of the neutron irradiation effects of the buffer layer of TRISO nuclear fuel particles via transmission electron microscopy. J. David Arregui-Mena (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Claire Griesbach UNiversit of Wisconsin-Madison), Eddie López-Honorato, Tyler Gerczak (Oak RIdge National Laboratory)
PS1.3 A comparison of oxidation behavior of irradiated and unirradiated graphite: grades NBG-25 and NBG-18. Rebecca E. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)
4.20pm – 6.00pm | Technical Session 3: Microstructure (Chair: J. David Arregui-Mena, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
4.20-4.40 TS3.1 A Microstructural Comparison between Graphite Irradiated in Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors and Material Test Reactor. A. Tzelepi, J McGladdery, M. Ward (National Nuclear Laboratory Sellafield UK), M. Jordan (National Nuclear Laboratory Stonehouse UK), M. Brown, J. Reed (EDF Energy Barnwood UK)
4.40-5.00 TS3.2 Characterizing the evolution of irradiated nuclear graphite using diffraction. Sean Fayfar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Sprouster (Stony Brook University), Arunkumar Seshadri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Durgesh Rai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Campbell (Oak Ridge National Lab), Jan Ilavsky (Argonne National Laboratory),Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lance Snead, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boris Khaykovich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5.00-5.20 TS3.3 Pre-Irradiation Characterisation Data of Graphite. Chloe McElvaney (National Nuclear Laboratory Warrington UK), M. Jordan (National Nuclear Laboratory Gloucester UK), J. Dinsdale-Potter, G. Copeland, M.Crelling (National Nuclear Laboratory Cumbria UK), E. Aradi, A. Jones (Henry Royce Institute, The University of Manchester), A. Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory Cumbria UK).
5.20-5.40 TS3.4 Microstructure of Gilsocarbon graphite revealed by a correlative study of optical texture and FIB-TEM. Ke Shen (Hunan University), Alex Theodosiou (University of Manchester), Huiyao Lan (Hunan University)
5.40-6.00 TS3.5 Defects in Nuclear Graphite using Positron Annihilation. Jagoda M. Urban-Klaehn, William E. Windes, Arvin B. Cunningham (Idaho National Laboratory)