Wednesday, Sept. 11
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720
9am – 10.05am | Standards Discussion 1: Graphite Material Requirement and Gaps (Chair: Nidia Gallego, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
9.00-9.20 SD1.1 Impediment to Innovation – Consensus Standards for Nuclear Graphite. Makuteswara Srinivasan (Materials Matter)
9.20-9.40 SD1.2 Graphite Materials Qualification, In-Service Considerations and Licensing. Meg Audrain (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
9.40-10.00 SD1.3 Overview of the UKJ-HTR. Athanasia Tzelepi (Nuclear National Laboratory, UK) , Junya Sumita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan)
10.05am – 10.20am | Group Photo & Break. Coffee and Pastries.
10.20am – 11.25am | Standards Discussion 2: Design, Operation Requirements and Gaps (Chair: Athanasia Tzelepi, Nuclear National Laboratory)
10.20-10.40 SD2.1 Current and Future Technological Gaps for Nuclear Graphite Components. William Windes, Michael E. Davenport, Rebecca E. Smith, Andrea L. Mack (Idaho National Laboratory)
10.40-11.00 SD2.2 A Fresh View on Temperature Effects on Local Density and Mechanical Strength Profiles in Subsurface of Thermally Oxidized Graphite. Cristian I. Contescu (Oak Ridge National laboratory), James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University), David J. Arregui-Mena, Lianshan Lin, Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.00-11.20 SD2.3 Current Technical Gaps and Challenges for Nuclear Graphite in Molten Salt Reactors. Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.25am – 11.40am | Break
11.40am – 12.40pm | Technical Session 7: Oxidation (Chair: Alex Theodosiou, University of Manchester)
11.40-12.00 TS7.1 Developing Sophisticated Methods for Graphite Uncertainty Quantification. John Taylor, N. Headings, M. Choudhury, R. Raikes, M. Winebrenner (Frazer Nash Consultancy), M. Bradford (EDF Nuclear Operations)
12.00-12.20 TS7.2 Impact of Oxidation on Gas Diffusion and Microstructure in NBG-18 and IG-110 Nuclear Graphite. Mayura S. Silva, Swapnil K. Morankar, Chuting T. Tsai, Arvin B. Cunningham, Mario D. Matos, William E. Windes (Idaho National Laboratory)
12.20-12.40 TS7.3 The effects of oxidation on the behaviour and thermo-physical properties of selected nuclear graphite grades for high temperature gas-cooled reactor. Mouna Saoudi, Dan Cluff, Huali Wu, Jozef Mouris, Chad Boyer, Jeffrey Battersby (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory)
12.40pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2pm-3.40pm | Technical Session 8: Oxidation (Chair: Mouna Saoudi, Canadian National Laboratory)
2.00-2.20 TS8.1 Characterization of Nuclear Graphite Oxidation Behavior for Next Generation High-Temperature Reactors. Saleh Zaila, Alex Theodosiou, Abbie Jones (University of Manchester, UK)
2.20-2.40 TS8.2 Oxidation behavior of ETU-10 nuclear graphite under air oxidation. J. David Arregui-Mena, J. Matthew Kurley, Yutai Katoh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lance Snead (Stony Brook University)
2.40-3.00 TS8.3 Lathing Study to Assess Oxidation Penetration for Seven Grades of Graphite: 2114, ET-10, ETU-10, IG-110, IG-430, NBG-18 and PCEA. Rebecca E. Smith, Mary Kaye Ames, Arvin B. Cunningham, Austin C. Matthews (Idaho National Laboratory)
3.00-3.20 TS8.4 Microstructural characterization of nuclear graphite under uniform and acute oxidation via conventional XCT and synchrotron XCT. J. David Arregui Mena (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Bodel, Xun Zhang, Cristian Contescu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University), Philip D. Edmondson, Paul M. Mummery (University of Manchester), Nidia Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3.20-3.40 TS8.5 Doping Graphite with Boron for Oxidation Resistance. Timothy D. Bragg, Rebecca E. Smith, William E. Windes, Michael C. Barkdull (Idaho National Laboratory)
3.40pm – 4.40pm | Break and Poster Session 4: Decommissioning and Waste
PS4.1 Repurposing of nuclear irradiated graphite waste and comparative thermophysical properties of various fine-grained nuclear graphite. Praveen Negi, Nirmala Rani, Akhil Kolanti, David J. Sprouster, Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
PS4.2 Li battery graphite anode waste and recycling. Sukanya Sukanya (TU Clausthal).
PS4.3 Electrochemical Thermal Desorption Spectrometry development for detection of hydrogen degassing from graphite in molten 2LiF-BeF2 (FLiBe). Timothy R. Pickarski (UC Berkeley), Colton Bruni (UC Berkeley, and Louisiana State University), L. Vergari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) , Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley).
PS4.4 In-FLiBe Decontamination of Irradiated Graphite. Sarah Heagy (UC Berkeley), L. Vergari (University of Illinois-Urban-Champaign), Riccardo Chebac , Christopher Lamb, Timothy Pickarski, Zachary Falkowski, Jimmy Xu, Kai Vetter, Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley).
4.40pm-5.40pm | Technical Session 9: Molten Salt (Chair: L Vergari, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4.40-5.00 TS9.1 Exploring intrusion behavior of molten FLiNaK on nuclear grade graphite. Jisue Braatz, Nidia Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
5.00-5.20 TS9.2 Investigating Molten Salt Infiltration in Nuclear Graphite: A Computational Study. Veerappan Prithivirajan, B. Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory)
5.20-5.40 TS9.3 Treatment of Molten fluoride salt-exposed graphite: Cleaning made simple. Yina Huang, S.D. Fayfar, D. J. Sprouster, G. Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), L.L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
6pm – 8pm | Conference Banquet at the Berkeley Faculty Club [map].
Student Poster Award: Ellen Berry (Johns Hopkins University)