Fourth Meeting of the OECD-NEA Expert Group on Accident Tolerant Fuels for LWRs

17-18 September 2015, PSI

Agenda and related documents

• Summary Record (password protected | reminder)
• Agenda(password protected | reminder)
• Instructions for authors and template for NEA reports(password protected | reminder)

Joint Task Force 2 (Cladding/core materials) and Task Force 3 (Fuel concepts) meeting, 17 September 2015

Report from section leaders on the attributes guide spreadsheet filled by TF members:

• SiC and SiC/SiC composites (W.J. Kim, KAERI)(password protected | reminder)
• Coated and improved Zr-alloys (B. Heuser, Univ. of Illinois)(password protected | reminder)
• Advanced Steels (K. Terrani, ORNL)(password protected | reminder)
• Refractory metals (A. Sowder for B. Cheng, EPRI)(password protected | reminder)
• Non-fuel components (H. Ohta, CRIEPI)(password protected | reminder)

Technical updates since the last meeting:

• Present status of surface modified Zr-alloy cladding in KAERI (H.G. Kim, KAERI)
• Update on the R&D on advanced steels at GE/ORNL (R. Rebak, GE)
• Status of TRISO R&D in Japan (M. Kurata, JAEA)
• Update on high temperature oxidation behavior of FeCrAl alloys and Ti2AlC MAX phase (C. Tang, KIT)

Plenary Expert Group and Task Forces meeting, 18 September 2015

Report from Task Forces:

• Report from Task Force 1 (Systems assessment) (S. Bragg-Sitton, INL)(password protected | reminder)
• Report from Task Force 2 (Cladding/core materials) (M. Moatti, EDF)(password protected | reminder)
• Report from Task Force 3 (Fuel concepts) (M. Kurata, JAEA)(password protected | reminder)

Updates on national programmes on ATF:

• Funded projects related to ATF in P.R. of China (L. Rui for T. Liu, CGN)
• Czech Republic contribution to EGATFL (R. Rehacek, ALTA)
• R&D programme related to ATF development at NRG (R. Hania, NRG)
• On-going and foreseen irradiations in Halden relevant for ATF (S. Holcombe for R. van Nieuwenhove, HRP)
• Follow up on the EPRI international ATF collaborative testing programme (A. Sowder, EPRI)

Last reviewed: 13 April 2016