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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-1700908)

21-22 April 2016

Room VIC M0E05 (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 the meeting is purpose of this meeting is to review and update the content of the IAEA’s International Knowledge Base on Nuclear Graphite. This will include carrying out a review of the progress achieved in the knowledge base since the last meeting and organizing a collective quality assurance exercise for new data. The planning of activities for the next 12 -month period will also be performed. A major feature of this meeting will be the development and review of a taxonomy to support the knowledge base. Attention will also be given to the effort to ‘populate’ the knowledge base further with the overall objective 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.

WORKING AGENDA

21-22 April 2016
 Room M0E05 (Building M), Vienna International Centre (VIC)


Meeting record
​​Day 1 - Thursday 21 April 2016​
TimeTopicResponsibility
08:40Registration at VIC Gate 1  
09:30Opening and Welcoming AddressFrederik Reitsma
 
Welcome (IAEA, Chairperson)
Apologies for Abscence
Adoption of the Working Agenda
Nidia Gallego
The IAEA International Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base: What next?
Tony Wickham

DISCUSSION:

  1. Official name: IAEA Knowledge Base On Nuclear Graphite
  2. Revision of Working Arrangement
  3. Funding model
  4. Opening Access to KB information
  5. How to make it attractive and accessible, also for novice users
  6. Future role of Technical Steering Committee
  7. Current hosting at IAEA: Advantages and challenges:
    1. Process to receive donations / extra-budgetary funds
    2. Process to assign short term contracts
(also see notes in agenda of last year) 

10:30Coffee break
10:50Continue presentations  
​11:30
Summarise outcomes of morning discussion: Nest actions and possible agenda updateFrederik Reitsma
​12:00​Lunch break​
​​13:30​Status and plans for the IAEA Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base Portal​Chair: F Reitsma
​​​13:30
(Report of the Consultant’s Meeting on Development of Taxonomy for Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Management, December 2015 and ongoing activities)
Frederik Reitsma​
David Beraha
​14:00
​Forward programme to develop and reconfigure the KB to maximise its usefulness, including the so-called ‘Wiki’ sections – Discussion
​Frederik Reitsma​​
David Beraha
Mikhail Khoroshev
​14:30
​Nuclear Knowledge Bases and Portal - Application to Fast Reactors with examples​​​ / demonstration (30 min)Mikhail Khoroshev
​15:10​Coffee break​
​15:30
Possible inclusion of GEN-IV related documents / records – A first exploration / discussion of possibilities; Security features / later release
​Frederik Reitsma
William Windes
​16:00
​Access problems to hyperlinked documents: can they (ever) be overcome and what are the alternative options
List of issues
​Frederik Reitsma
​16:30​Committee comments on Knowledge Base Status and Outlook​All
​​Possible additional records / or Taxonomy Review​
​17:15​Graphite oxidation TECDOC – Update of status
​Frederik Reitsma
William Windes
​17:45​Adjourn for the day​
​Day 2 - Friday 22 April 2016​
TimeTopicResponsibility
09:00
INGSM meetings (Delegates are reminded that INGSM is NOT an official IAEA meeting and that attendance is at own cost and risk)Anthony Wickham
 Report on: INGSM-16, Nottingham, UK (September 13th - 17th 2015)​

INGSM-17, Vienna, Austria (5-8 September 2016);

INGSM-18, USA (confirmed - planning has started);

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

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​INGSM record on the Knowledge Base

  • All records to date uploaded – including INGSM-16
  • Proposal: Authors to provide keywords both for future papers (and retrospectively to facilitate taxonomy development and meta data tagging)
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​09:15​Membership Commitments and Contributions to the KB and Graphite DB ​
​
​Members area Status and updates needed
IAEA, All​
​Extending membership to IAEA MS:

​09:50
​Excel spreadsheet / Numerical Database
Endorsement of Data QA Grading on Current Update of Database		​Gerd Haag
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One last attempt to get all the old data into the graphite database and do the QA (updated by Tony). This include new data found during the Creep CRP by Mark Davies
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New work to be done: Nature of Services 

  • Entering irradiation data from a variety of UK reports (e.g., as provided on CD Jan 14 2008) to the International Knowledge Base on Nuclear Graphite:
  • Converting the new data to the Database format:
  • Uploading the data to the Database template or to preliminary modified templates in case of compatibility problems:
  • Defining hyperlinks and character strings (according to the agreed format) necessary for quality assurance assessment:
  • Adding missing and correct non-consistent (example H451 vs H-451) information to former entries of the existing Database.
​All
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​Identification of shorter-term resources for :

a.            Adding/QA additional data to the Database

b.            Adding the creep database to the main database (will not be done)

c.             Adding documents to the KB (USA: AGC-1 reports and data – TBC; Ukraine: Data / reports – may still be delivered in 2016)

d.            'Tagging' existing documents to make them compatible with IAEA search engine – and widening to include refs to documents held elsewhere? (The abilities of the new PoolParty tool to be tested– IAEA)

e.            Meta data. Use the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and make example list for approval by committee – Should also include SharePoint info of person that upload etc. (IAEA)

Resource tneeds

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​10:10​Coffee break​
​10:30​Revise the Terms of Reference​All
​12:00 Lunch break
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​13:00​Actions from Previous meetings and acceptance of minutes​Anthony Wickham
Frederik Reitsma
​​Updated action list compilation (see meeting report of 2015)​
​​14:00
​Closing Session Anthony Wickham
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  • 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
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​15:00​Meeting adjourned​
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Main outcomes​
 Decide to open the IAEA Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base (NGKB) to all MS
 In this light develop and propose a new working arrangement​​​
 Review the objectives of the NGKB
 Agree on the work program for the next 12 months
 Two reports from BRADWELL NPP received from UK and added to the Sharepoint site 
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Main deliverables
 TECDOC on Graphite Oxidation delivered (publication in 2016)
 IAEA to host the INGSM-17 meeting in September 2016 at VIC
 Ongoing update and maintenance of the IAEA Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base Portal​
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Link to meeting records​


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