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MEETING RECORD

INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE ON NUCLEAR GRAPHITE

Technical Meeting on the Status of the International Knowledge Base on Nuclear Graphite (I3-TM-50155)

26 to 27 March 2015 

Room VIC M0E100 (Building M)

Vienna International Centre (VIC)

Background

Established in 1999, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) International Knowledge Base on Nuclear Graphite seeks to preserve and further expand the scientific information on the physical, chemical, mechanical and other properties of graphites relevant for nuclear power, nuclear safety and other nuclear science and technology applications. The data archive it contains has proven invaluable to the nuclear graphite community, and it is currently supporting a coordinated research project on irradiation creep in nuclear graphite along with a number of individual Member State research and reactor-life-extension activities. Originally developed and maintained by the IAEA's Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, the knowledge base was transferred to the Department of Nuclear Energy in 2010.

Purpose

The purpose of this meeting is to carry out a review of progress achieved in the knowledge base since the last committee meeting and to organize a collective quality assurance exercise for new data as well as a planning exercise for the next twelve-month period. The goal is the continued development and implementation of a programme for the ‘population’ of the knowledgebase area with definitive documents recording many aspects of nuclear graphite characteristics and irradiation behaviour, with the object of preserving the information for the future benefit of all Member States.

Audience

The meeting is targeted at the appointed liaison officers for the participating Member States, representatives of the commercial entities that are sponsoring the knowledge base and a small number of observers from potential new participating Member States or suitably qualified individuals who have expressed an interest in contributing to the project.

AGENDA

26-27 March 2015

Room M0E100 (Building M), Vienna International Centre (VIC)


Meeting record
​Day 1 - Thursday 26 March 2015
TimeTopicResponsibility
08:30Registration at VIC Gate 1 
 
09:00Opening and Welcoming AddressFrederik Reitsma
 
Welcome (IAEA, Chairperson)
Welcome to Sponsors Representatives and Guests
Apologies for Abscence
Adoption of the Agenda
Minutes of the Previous Meeting
Review of Actions
Matters Arising (also from previous minutes) which are not covered elsewhere in the Agenda
Tony Wickham
09:30
 Review of Status of the Project I: IT hosting and future plans
Chair: F Reitsma

IT path in IAEA and long term solutions:

Future agency plans for SharePoint, Nucleus, and IT platforms.

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Questions and clarifications

Velimir Alic (MTIT) 

 


All
10:00
Nuclear Knowledge Bases and Portals - Application to Fast Reactors with examples (30 min)

Mikhail Khoroshev
10:30Coffee break
10:50Review of Status of the Project II: Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base  
10:50

Current status of implementations: (Functionality and solutions)

  • Addition of hyperlinks that can be copied
  • Removal of duplicate QA ratings and reference documents
  • General maintenance (consistent names etc)
Frederik Reitsma
11:00
Demonstration of functionalities
  • Upload / update of documents
  • Wiki pages
  • Permission and access
  • Improved search capabilities
Nidia Gallego
11:20
Collaboration
Overview and perspectives of a user
11:45
Discussion on a future vision of a Knowledge Base platform:
Include aspects such as:
  • How to tranform the current Knowledge base "web site' and database into a real Knowledge Base
  • Incorporation into future HTR Knowledge base
  • Taxonomy: How to and available tools to facilitate implementation.
  • Structure of documents already a good basis.
11:55
The IAEA International Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base: What next?
Chair: T Wickham
11:55
Scope of work of the committee
  • Terms of references
  • To include review activities?
    • Widening the remit of the KB and/or the TSC (additional justification(;
    • Peer Review of Technical Documents (for example, update on INL Graphite Oxidation document reviewed in December 2014);
    • Bibliographies to support specific projects/requests (for example, UK Environment Agency in regared to i-graphite disposal);
    • Needs of the Molten-Salt Reactor Programme (China);
    • Training Course Materials;
    • Document repository for ongoing CRPs (etc);
    • Links to (or inclusion of ) relevant TECDOCs;
    • Codes and Standards (e.g. ASTM)
Anthony Wickham
12:20
Current hosting at IAEA: Advantages and challenges:
  • Process to receive donations / extra-budgetary funds
  • New process to assign short term project
  • IT hosting in Nucleus
Frederik Reitsma
12:30Lunch break
​​14:00Funding Model and Future ActionsChair: T Wickham
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Current funding: Summary of status
Tony Wickham

Funding Model (1): provision of funding:
  • Existing model of donations from UK regulator and from graphite companies is probably unsustainable, after more than 17 years of generous donations: the mechanism of collecting the donations when invoices cannot be issued causes frustration and difficulty, and extra work for Agency staff;
  • Review 'extra-budgetary' status of this KB, given that other IAEA KBs are funded: "does IAEA want this KB?" – impacts upon decisions on IT and hosting situation; reaction of recent TWG-GCR meeting to this situation will be relevant!
  • Other funding sources?
Tony Wickham

Funding Model (2): payments for services...
  • Existing model of utilising Aachen students for input of numerical data via a contract with Dr Haag is perhaps also unsustainable – it seems to be impossible to issue a contract under the 'old' system without disclosure of highly personal information;
  • Consider a 'Special Services Agreement' or other funding format such as the mechanism for inviting specialists' to meetings?


Discussions and Future Actions
Technical Steering Committe Structure
  • Role of 'Sponsors' in the future;
  • Involvement of IT specialists (IAEA or otherwise) on permanent basis;
  • Chair for period commencing April 2015;
  • Provision of Meeting Notes;
  • Review of Working Arrangement
15:40Coffee break
16:00
INGSM meetings (Delegates are reminded that INGSM is NOT an official IAEA meeting and that attendance is at own cost and risk)
Tony Wickham



INGSM-16, Nottingham, UK (September 13th – 17th 2015);

INGSM-17, Vienna, Austria (September 2016, dates to be finalised);

INGSM-18, USA (to be confirmed);

INGSM-19, SINAP, Shanghai, China (to be confirmed)

INGSM record on the Knowledgebase
  • All records to date uploaded
  • Review 'play' version of the index created in December 2014
  • Proposal: Authors to provide keywords both for future papers and retrospectively to facilitate

Proposal for taking a subset of the INGSM data and have a small working group figure out the effort (and time/$$$) needed to convert the whole thing, which could be done over time
Frederik, Tufan, David
17:00
Graphite oxidations: Document peer review
17:00
Will Windes
17:40
TECDOC publication plan and reviews
Frederik Reitsma
18:00Adjourn for the day
Day 2 - Friday 22 April 2016
TimeTopicResponsibility
09:00Membership Commitments and Contributions to the KB and Graphite DB
09:00
  • Time scales
  • Volume of material
  • Steps to add to the database
Mykola Odeychuk
09:20
  • Time scales
  • Volume of material
  • Steps to add to the database
YU Suyuan
09:35
Invitations to other relevant Member States (France, Russian Federation?)
Tony / Frederik
09:40
Update of the Member State Information: Country page
 (Email requesting plans to be sent)
F​rederik

​(Very short update from each representative of what will be updated by when, and how on the country specific pages)

Member State Information – in most cases this information is absent or needs updating: http://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/graphiteknowledgebase/SitePages/Members/

China.aspx
Yu Suyuan

Germany.aspx
Gerd Haag

Lithuania.aspx
Aleksandr Oryšaka

Japan.aspx
Junya Sumita

Ukraine.aspx
Mykola Odeychuk

United Kingdom.aspx
Tony Wickham

USA.aspx
Tim Burchell
10:00
Commitment of Member States to the Continued Development of the Project
  • Actual manpower effort previously committed by most participating Member States has been limited, apart from attending TSC. We cannot continue in this way. Whence...
  • Define what each Member States uses/needs the KB for;
  • Define programme for next 12 months – what inputs/updates in the KB are desirable (some existing material awaits upload also):
    • Identify for Knowledge-Base Area;
    • Identify for Member States Info Area;
    • Identify for Database Area (known material for input includes data from UK AGR operations and also the Irradiation-Creep Database which has been developed separately under the CRP – also review any need to change hyperlinks for search ability reasons in 'interim' solutions);
    • INGSM Archive: style and search ability requirements (also includes need for changing hyperlink names as proposed for 'interim solutions');
    • Security requirements and constraints, all areas;
    • Wiki material and how to be accessed;
  • Define a forward 'Resource Matrix' – who will do what, and on what agreed time scales (see also, item on 'Widening the Remit', below!)
10:40Coffee break
10:50Review of Status of the Project III: Additions to the Content
10:50
Delegates are requested to review the current site ahead of the meeting and to come prepared with proposals to ensure that the style and content meet the needs of users in their Member State in all areas - Home Page, Member State Information, Document Content, INGSM archives, and Numerical Database...
​All
11:00
Excel spreadsheet / Numerical Database
Endorsement of Data QA Grading on Current Update of Data
Gerd Haag

Feedback on:

The numerical database has been augmented with data to assist the CRP on Irradiation Creep in Graphite, along with other available data. 

The meeting needs to confirm QA grading on each of these items before the material is passed to the Agency for updating

​All

Discussion on further additions of data: new sources; resources, timescale (for inclusion in the aforementioned database)
Tony Wickham
12:30 Lunch break
14:00
Closing Session Tony Wickham
  • Review Outcome of Meeting, Actions and Commitments
  • Any other business
  • Proposed date of next meeting (1-2 Nov 2018)
  • Reasons for continuing the activities / having a next meeting

Name and working arrangement
Proposed: IAEA KNOWLEDGE BASE ON NUCLEAR GRAPHITE
Tony Wickham
16:00Meeting adjourned

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