MEETING RECORD

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

(EVT1904139)

5 to 6 November 2020

Virtual Meeting (Through WebEx)

from 13:00 to 16:30 (CEST/Vienna Time) daily

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.