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4th International Technical Meeting on Small Reactors

Organized by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories and Canadian Nuclear Society

Next Generation Small Reactors and Research Reactors

2016 November 2-4Delta Ottawa City Centre, Ottawa, Ontario CANADA

2 4th International Technical Meeting on Small Reactors 2016

S p o n s o r s

Patron Sponsor: Sylvia FedoruK Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation

Opening Reception: Liburdi GAPCO, A division of Liburdi Automation Inc.

Wednesday Breakfast: SNC-Lavalin Inc.

Wednesday Break: Kinectrics Inc.

34th International Technical Meeting on Small Reactors 2016

General Chair: Stephen Bushby, AECL

Technical Program Co-Chairs: Metin Yetisir and Steve Livingstone, CNL

Advisory Committee: Dan Brady, NRCAN

Paul Chan, RMC

Marcel de Vos, CNSC

Roger Humphries, AMEC Foster Wheeler

Benjamin Rouben, CNS

Pavel Samuleev, RMCC SLOWPOKE-2

Gina Strati, CNL

Bhaskar Sur, CNL

Daniel Banks, Canadian Neutron Beam Center

Registration: Bob O’Sullivan, CNS

C o n f e r e n c e O r g a n i z i n g C o m m i t t e e


P r e l i m i n a r y P r o g r a m

Tuesday, November 1

Registration and Cocktails - Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, 101 Lyon St. North, Ottawa, Ontario

18:00-19:00 Registration and Welcome Cocktails, Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, Concierge

Day 1: Wednesday, November 2

08:30 - 10:00 Session: Plenary 1 (Richelieu/Frontenac Room)

Time Description Speaker/Author(s)

08:30 - 08:40 Welcome S. Bushby (Senior Director, Commercial Oversight and S&T Integration, AECL)

08:40 - 09:00 SMRs; a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an R. Holmes (Chief Scientist, CNL) Enigma, and CNL’s Role in Unwrapping That

09:00 - 09:20 The Role of Credible Research and Development T. Jamieson (Vice-President, CNSC) Information in Supporting a Safety Case

09:20 - 09:40 Overview of some federal initiatives related Nardia Ali (Manager of Compliance, Environment to GHG reductions since COP21 and Climate Change Canada) and Daniel Brady (Deputy Director, Nuclear S&T for Natural Resources Canada)

09:40 - 10:00 Ontario’s Current and Future Energy Needs W. Lam (Senior Advisor - Nuclear Technologies, and Ongoing Activities on SMRs Ministry of Energy, Govt. of Ontario)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:45 Session: Plenary 2 (Richelieu/Frontenac Room)

10:30 - 10:50 Placing Innovative Nuclear Reactors into M. Dalzell (Partnerships Manager, Sylvia Fedoruk Communities - The Need for Research and Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation) Innovation Related to Public Engagement

10:50 - 11:10 MNR and the Neutron Gap Gap in Canada C. Heysel (Director of Nuclear Operations and – How Can We help? Facilities, McMaster University)

11:10 - 11:30 Informing Biochemistry and Nutrition Research T. Harroun (Brock University) with Neutrons

11:30 - 11:45 Group Photo

12:00 - 13:00 Conference Lunch (Richelieu/Frontenac Room)

13:00 - 14:20 Parallel Session A:1 - SMRs for North/Arctic Parallel Session B:1 - Applications of Research Locations (Richelieu Room) Reactors (Frontenac Room)

13:00 - 13:20 Small Modular Reactors for Remote Community Dedicated Neutron-Imaging Systems at Reactor-Based Energy Needs, N. Gnanapragasam, M. Gaudet, Neutron Sources for Versatile Applications in Science L. Gardner, H. Boniface and Technology, E. Lehmann (Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:20 - 13:40 Northern Indigenous Peoples & The Prospects for Solidification Behaviour of Unmodified and Sr-Modified Nuclear Energy, K. Coates & D. Landrie-Parker Eutectic Si in Binary Al-6Si and A319 Al Alloys Using In-Situ (University of Saskatchewan) Neutron Diffraction, E. Vandersluis (Ryerson University), D. Sediako (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre), C. Ravindran (Ryerson University), A. Elsayed, G. Byczynski (Nemak Canada Corporation)

13:40 - 14:00 The Trusted Informant: Showing Empathy to Build In-Situ Neutron Diffraction Study of Zircaloy-4 Subjected to Credibility, E. Lloyd (University of Saskatchewan) Biaxial Tension, M. Gharghouri, D. McDonald, L. Xiao, R. Ham-Su (CNL)



14:00 - 14:20 Melting Permafrost and Site Conditions for Small Dakota-Driven Optimization of Research-Reactor Operation Modular Reactor Installations in Remote Northern and Experiments: Example of Neutron-Activation Canada Communities, D. Malcolm (Malcolm & Associates) Experiments, R. Schow, T. Jevremovic (University of Utah)

14:20 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 16:10 Parallel Session A:2 - Advanced SMRs & Parallel Session B:2 - Neutron-Beam Applications New Technologies (Richelieu Room) (Frontenac Room)

14:30 - 14-50 StarCore Nuclear SMR, D. Dabney, D. Poole, M. Materials Research Using Neutron Beams Contributes to Yates (StarCore Nuclear) Clean-Energy Objectives, D. Banks (Canadian Neutron Beam Centre)

14:50 - 15:10 The Known Unknowns of Molten Salt Reactors, Neutron Diffraction for the Advancement of Metal R.E. Ortega Pelayo, M. Edwards (CNL) Hydrides, J. Lang (CNL), J. Huot (Université du Québec)

15:10 - 15:30 Conceptual Design of EM Pump for Lead-Alloy- Development of New Neutron Methods and Applications Cooled Advanced Small Modular reactor, J. Kwak, at NRU, R. Rogge, G. Bentoumi, F. Ali (CNL) H. Kim (Ulsan National Institue of Science and Technology)

15:30 - 15:50 SEALER: A Small Lead-Cooled Reactor for Power Production Accelerator-Based Neutron Source, P. Brown (Mevex in the Canadian Arctic, J. Wallenius, I. Mickus, S. Qvist (Lead Corporation), W. Diamond (AECL, Retired), Cold Reactors), S. Bortot (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) G. McRae (Carleton University), B.P. Bromley (CNS)

15:50 - 16:10 Preliminary Studies of Supercritical CO2 Cycle Application for Small Modular Reactor with a Desalination Capability, W.W. Lee, S.-J. Bae, J.-I. Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

16:10 - 16:20 Break

16:20 - 17:40 Parallel Session A:3 - SMR Reactor Physics Parallel Session B:3 - Passive Safety and (Richelieu Room) Underground Containment Structures (Frontenac Room)

16:20 - 16:40 Neutronics of Materials for Small High-Temperature Improving Passive Safety in Small Modular Reactors by Reactors, R. Tannous, C. Rangacharyulu (University Quantifying SMR-Specific Natural Decontamination of Saskatchewan), D. Guzonas, L. Leung (CNL), Phoretic Phenomena, S. Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical) D. Chorney, J. Zimmer (Saskatchewan Research Council)

16:40 - 17:00 Source-Term Evaluation for Advanced Small Research on the Passive Safety System during SMR Modular Reactor Concepts, D. Hummel (CNL) ACP100+, W. Zeng, D. Song (Nuclear Power Institute of China)

17:00 - 17:20 Modeling of Excess-Reactivity Transients in the Operational Monitoring of Small Modular Reactor Facilities, SEALER Lead-Cooled Reactors, A. Zhuchkova, N. W. Mayo, D. Horn, Y. Han, S. Jaffer (CNL) Chornoboy, S. Golesorkhi (CNL)

17:20 - 17:40 Optimization of Reactivity Feedbacks for Seismic-Hazard Analysis of Deeply Embedded Small Autonomous Small PWR, A.A.E. Abdelhameed, Modular Reactor Structures, W. Jiang, M. Pandey, Y. Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology W.-C. Xie (University of Waterloo)

18:00 - 21:00 Conference Banquet Cocktails - 6:00 pm, Dinner Buffet - 6:30 pm

Banquet Presentation: Robert S. Walker, PhD, FCAE Canada and Nuclear Power - So where from here?



Day 2: Thursday November 3

Session Plenary 3: Supplier Panel (Richelieu/Frontenac Room)

8:30 - 8:35 Introduction R. Oberth (President and CEO, OCI))

8:35 - 8:50 Legal and financing issues related to SMR Deployment P. Murphy (Gowling WLG)

8:50 - 9:05 Innovative approaches to SMR licensing in Canada G. Archinoff (Candesco, Division of Kinectrics Inc.)

9:05 - 9:20 Early supplier engagement in SMR development Mark Zimny (Promation)

9:20 - 9:35 Security issues related to remote SMR deployment Benoit Parent (Cummins Eastern Canada)

9:35 - 10:00 Q&A All

10:00 - 10:20 Break

10:20 - 12:00 Parallel Session C – Licensing Parallel Session D - Research Reactor Physics (Richelieu Room) (Frontenac Room)

10:20 - 10:40 Update on the CNSC’S SMR Discussion Paper, Multi-Physics Modelling of Small Modular Reactors with K. Lee (CNSC) Serpent 2 and Thermal Hydraulics Solvers, R. Tuominen, V. Valtavirta (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.)

10:40 - 11:00 Establishing Right-Sized Regulations for Small A Coupled Neutronics-Thermohydraulics Model of the Modular Reactors - Updates on Establishing Homogeneous SLOWPOKE Reactor for Applications to SMR-Specific Emergency Planning Zones, Transient States, B. Limbeek, H.W. Bonin, P.K. Chan (Royal S. Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical) Military College of Canada), J.W. Hilborn (AECL, Retired)

11:00 - 11:20 Design Challenges with Licensing SMRs – A Progress on Reactor Kinetics Measurements in ZED-2, L.R. Perspective from a Nuclear Industry Service Yaraskavitch, J.E. Atfield, E.T. Rand (CNL) Provider, A. Lee (SNC Lavalin Inc.)

11:20 - 11:40 The CNSC Safety and Control Area Framework – Dynamic Simulations of Reactor Transients with Geant 4, Consideration Beyond Reactor Design for Small E.T. Rand, K. Hartling, L.R. Yaraskavitch (CNL) Modular Reactors, M. de Vos (CNSC)

11:40 - 12:00 Transportation of Sealed SMR Cores, M. Chapman, J. McLellan (CNL)

12:00 - 13:00 Conference Lunch

13:00 - 14:20 Parallel Session E – Water-Cooled SMRs Parallel Session F: Updates on Research Reactors (Richelieu Room) (Frontenac Room)

13:00 - 13:20 Joint Study of Thermal Utilization Applications A Very Efficient New Source for Restart of FRM II, for a Small-to-Medium-Sized BWR – University A. Röhrmoser (TU Munich) of Saskatchewan Activities, D. Konkin (University of Sasktachewan)

13:20 - 13:40 Hitachi’s Activity in the Joint Study on Thermal RMCC SLOWPOKE-2 Facility: 30 Years of Service to the Utilization of the Double MS BWR: A Modular Department of National Defence, P. Samuleev, P.K. Chan, Simplified & Medium Small Reactor, T. Ikegawa, H.W Bonin, B. Ball, S. Jenner, C. McEwan, P. Hungler K. Kito (Hitachi Lrd.), K. Nishida (Hitachi-GE (Royal Military. College of Canada) Nuclear Energy, Ltd.)

13:40 - 14:00 A High-Performance Soluble-Boron-Free Small Current Status of Nigeria Research Reactor-1 (NIRR-1); Modular Reactor Core, M.-S. Yahya, Y. Kim After Twelve Years of Operation, S. Agbo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and (Veritas University), Y. Ahmed (Ahmadu Bello University) Technology)

14:00 - 14:20 Study on the Thermal Performance of the Fuel Assembly under Low-Flow Conditions, Z. Qiu (Nuclear Power Institute of China)


14:20 - 14:35 Break

14:35 - 15:55 Parallel Session G - SMR Staffing and Parallel Session H: SMR Economics, Evaluation Fitness for Service (Richelieu Room) Methodologies (Frontenac Room)

14:35 - 14:55 Small Modular Reactor Staffing and Current The Economics of Very Small Modular Reactors in the Regulation, H. Hanke (CNL) North, M. Moore (CNL)

14:55 - 15:15 SMR Technology Demonstration: Are There Application of Technology and Vendor Readiness- Level Major Gaps in Safety Knowledge?, Evaluations to Small Modular Reactors, J. Eastick, A. Viktorov (CNSC) M. Pavlovic, B. Gihm, J. Sarvinis (Hatch Ltd.)

15:15 - 15:35 The Implication of Solving Inverse Problem in Small Nuclear Technology Compatibility Evaluation System Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis for Methodology for a Project Application, B. Gihm, Autonomous Operation of SMR, M.-G. Kim, J.-I. M. Pavlovic, B. Coulas, J. Sarvinis (Hatch Ltd.) Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)

15:35 - 15:55 Key Aspects for Design and Fitness-for-Service Major Cost Factors in Evaluating Very-Small-Nuclear- of Mechanical Components in Small Modular Reactor Economics, B. Gihm, J. Eastick, B. Coulas, Reactors, S. Eom, N. Sadek, S. Xu, R. Awad (CNSC) J. Sarvinis (Hatch Ltd.)

15:55 - 16:10 Break

16:10 - 17:30 Parallel Session I: SMR Safety Analysis (Frontenac Room)

16:10 - 16:30 Severe Accident Mitigation Feature of In-Vessel Corium Retention through External Reactor Vessel Cooling for SMART, R.-J. Park (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)

16:30 - 16:50 Benefits and Challenges of Design-Assist Probabilistic Safety Assessment for Small Modular Reactors, A. Trifanov, S. Ganguli (Kinectrics Inc.)

16:50 - 17:10 Risk-Informed Design of ACP100 With a Level-1 Probabilistic Risk Assessment, J. Deng, H. Zhang (Nuclear Power Institute of China)

17:10 - 17:30 Safety Analysis Report for Small Nuclear Reactors, H. Ragheb (Safety Probe International)

End of Sessions – Thank you for Your Participation!

Day 3: Friday November 4

(Tour – Optional) Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario

7:30 - 17:30 Depart by Bus 7:30, Return to Hotel 17:30 (Account for possible slight delays on return)


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