OECD/NEA Workshop on Accident Tolerant Fuels of LWRs
10-12 December 2012 | NEA, 12 Boulevard des Iles, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Workshop Proceedings
Technical Programme
Technical presentations
Introduction and background (J. GULLIFORD, NEA)
Objectives of the workshop (K. PASAMEHMETOGLU, INL, USA)
Session 1: Lessons learned from the Fukushima accident
- Current understanding of the sequence of events (J. GULLIFORD, NEA)
- Overview of fuel behaviour and core degradation, based on modelling analyses (S. MASSARA, NEA)
- Additional information (from recent workshops etc.) (K. PASAMEHMETOGLU, INL, USA)
- Key regulatory and safety issues emerging, NEA activities (J. NAKOSKI, NEA)
- Recent and current activities of the OECD/NEA Working Group on Fuel Safety (NEA/CSNI) (M. PETIT, IRSN, France)
- Summary of the current status of the lessons learned from Fukushima (K. PASAMEHMETOGLU, INL, USA)
Session 2: Accident tolerant fuel design
- Overview of Accident Tolerant Fuel Development (F. GOLDNER, DoE, USA)
- Evaluation of potential alternative nuclear fuel cladding materials for LWRs applications with increased margins in LOCA and beyond LOCA conditions at CEA (M. LE FLEM, CEA, France)
- Silicon carbide materials for LWR application: current status and issues (T. HINOKI, Kyoto Univ., Japan)(password protected | reminder)
- Development of advanced claddings for suppressing the hydrogen emission in the accident condition (J-Y. PARK, KAERI, Rep. of Korea)
- Accident tolerant control rod (T. SAWABE, CRIEPI, Japan)
- Fully ceramic microencapsulated fuel design and irradiation testing (L. SNEAD, ORNL, USA)
- Development of LWR Fuels with enhanced accident tolerance (J. TULENKO, Univ. Florida, USA)
- Enhanced accident tolerant fuel (J. STRUMPELL, AREVA-NP, USA)
- Developments in silicon carbide cladding for nuclear applications (C. BACK, General Atomic, USA)
- Suggestion of a novel failure tolerant fuel element (M. POUCHON, PSI, Switzerland)
- Engineered zircaloy cladding modifications for improved accident tolerance of LWR Fuel (B. HEUSER, Univ. Illinois, USA)
Session 3: Reactor operation, safety, fuel cycle constraints, economics & licensing
- Preliminary assessment of the impact of candidate accident tolerant fuels/cladding on the predicted reactor behavior at normal operating conditions and under DB (LOCA and RIA) and BDB (STSBO AND LTSBO) accident conditions (L. OTT, ORNL, USA)
- Fuel behaviour in severe accidents and potential ATF designs (B. CHENG, EPRI, USA)
- Safety of some fuel cladding materials, alternative to Zr alloys (G. HACHE, IRSN, France)
- Steam attack studies in SiC clad and advanced steel clad (K. TERRANI, ORNL, USA)
- Contributing to the design of accident tolerant fuels by applying the TRANSURANUS fuel performance code (P. VAN UFFELEN, EC-JRC, EC)
- In-reactor testing capabilities at Halden relevant for ATF fuel (C. VITANZA, OECD / Halden)
- Introducing a new type of fuel in EDF reactors: main issues (M. MOATTI, EDF, France)
- Fuel licensing process for an industrial use (N. WAECKEL, EDF, France)
Session 4: Synthesis and future programmes
Last reviewed: 5 August 2013
