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MEETING RECORD

Technical Meeting on the Status of the IAEA Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base  

(EVT1701669)

7 to 8 November 2019

Room M4 (Building M)

Vienna International Centre (VIC)

Background

Established in 1999, the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) Knowledge Base on Nuclear Graphite seeks to preserve and further expand the scientific information on the physical, chemical, mechanical and other properties of nuclear graphite 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.

Objectives

It is expected that the committee members report on activities in the member states related to nuclear graphite and possible contributions to the Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base (NGKB). The action matrix will be reviewed and updated. Plans to further develop the NGKB are to be formulated, potential new members identified and the planning of activities for the next period performed.

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 number of observers from potential new participating Member States or suitably qualified individuals who have expressed an interest in contributing to the project.


 


Meeting record
​​Day 1 - Thursday 7 November 2019​
TimeTopicResponsibility
09:00Registration at VIC Gate 1  
09:30Opening and Welcoming Address Stefano Monti
  Welcome (IAEA, Chairperson) 
Member State updates on activities related to graphite
ChinaDerek Tsang
Indonesia: Research Activities on Graphite in BATANAbu Khalid Rivai
Lithuania:Alexandr Oryshaka
 Netherlands: Update on Graphite irradiation programmes at HFR PettenArjan Vreeling
10:30Coffee break
10:50Continue presentations  
 Poland: Management of Nuclear Graphite from HTRG. Zakrzewska-Koltuniewicz
​Russian FederationAleksandr Pavliuk
​​Ukraine: ​Mykola Odeychuk
​​UK activities​Dong Liu
​​Activities in the USA on graphite​Nidia Gallego
​11:45​Lunch break​
​​13:15​Status and plans for the IAEA Nuclear Graphite Knowledge Base Portal​
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DISCUSSION:

  1. How to make it attractive and accessible, also for novice users
  2. Current hosting at IAEA: Advantages and challenges
  3. Other members? France, Russia
  4. Approval of the ToR (outstanding)

SharePoint site / Community (what is really needed)

​Frederik Reitsma
​​The NGKB Taxonomy ​
​13:50

​Status and plans of the NGKB Taxonomy (based on INGSM abstracts

  1. Use of Taxonomy in member States
  2. Publication of the Taxonomy
  3. Review of the taxonomy
​Frederik Reitsma
​​Discussion: Latest developments and further work needed​Frederik Reitsma
​15:10​Coffee break​
​15:30​Feedback on the status and graphite data in the GEN-IV materials handbook​Nidia Gallego
​16:00​Graphite Knowledgebase in Share Point
Status, List of issues, Future Plans
Solving access issues		​Frederik Reitsma
​17:00​Comments on Knowledge Base Status and Outlook​All
​​Possible additional records / or Taxonomy Review​
​17:15​Graphite related IAEA publications – Update of status (delays due to rotation policy and new position of Reitsma since August 2018)​Frederik Reitsma
​17:30​Adjourn for the day​
​Day 2 - Friday 8 November 2019​
TimeTopicResponsibility
09:30
INGSM meetings (Delegates are reminded that INGSM is NOT an official IAEA meeting and that attendance is at own cost and risk) 
 Report on: INGSM-20, Feedback​Nidia Gallego
INGSM-21 Chicago, USA (Jacob Eapen, NCSUNidia Gallego

INGSM-22 (2021): Far East cycle 
Proposals: Hunan University in western China (Changsha Province); UK (Kendal, English Lake District)		​All
INGSM-23 (2022) Next time in Europe: Proposal by NRGArjan Vreeling
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​INGSM record on the Knowledge Base

  • All records to date uploaded – INGSM-20 to be uploaded after receiving the presentations from Tony Wickham (week of 11 Nov)
  • Future proposal: Authors to provide keywords both for future papers (and retrospectively to facilitate taxonomy development and meta data tagging)
​Frederik Reitsma
​​Discussion of proposal for a ‘Standing committee for INGSM management’ outside this meeting (also due to the new ToR)​​All
​10:00​Membership Commitments and Contributions to the KB and Graphite DB ​
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​Extending membership to IAEA MS

  1. Graphite Manufacturers Role
  2. HTR designers role (Gas cooled and molten salt designs)
  3. R&D organizations role
  4. Link to GIF
​IAEA, All
​10:20​Graphite Data Base Update / Incorporate Creep data ​
​​Excel spreadsheet / Numerical Database
Endorsement of Data QA Grading on Current Update of Database		​
​​Final copy received from Tony Wickham (2018) to be uploaded​Cristhian Luque
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Notes on New work to be done

  •  Entering irradiation data from a variety of UK reports (e.g. as provided on CD Jan 14 2008) to 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.
  • Priorities to be set for 6 month Intern
​All
​​IAEA Intern activities and focus areas for next 6 months ​Proposed solution
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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)

f.             Add country information (organizations

g.            Graphite datasheets (from manufacturers) ?

 

​Cristhian Luque
​10:40​Coffee break​
​11:10​New graphite data?​All
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  • China / SINAP
  • Germany? FZJ Archive information?
  • Japan - – Graphite data to share?
  • Lithuania – Graphite data to share?
  • Ukraine - Graphite data to share?
  • USA – work ongoing at ORNL, INL etc for VHTRs and MSRs
  • Status of the ASME standard on reactor design?
  • Other
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​12:00​Lunch break​
​13:00​Actions and outstanding items​Nidia Gallegos
Frederik Reitsma
​​Updated action list compilation​
​13:30​Closing Session ​Nidia Gallegos
Frederik Reitsma
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  • Review Outcome of Meeting, Actions and Commitments
  • Any other business
  • Proposed date of next meeting (5-6 Nov 2020)
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​15:30​Meeting adjourned​
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