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Presentation of the INSPYRE project

Marjorie Bertolus CEA, DEN, DEC, Centre de Cadarache

JPNM Infoda days ys, , Bruss ussels els, , December r 4-5, 2019

The Project and the European Context

INSPYRE: Investigations Supporting MOX Fuel Licensing in ESNII Prototype Reactors

Answer to section 5 of H2020 Euratom call for 2016-2017: Materials research for Generation-IV reactors Under the auspices of the Joint Programme of Nuclear Materials (JPNM) of the European Energy Research Alliance Aim of project: harness basic and applied science to

• Make the motto “Better data in better codes for better predictive performance”

a reality

• Bring significant advances to the licensing of MOX fuel, first cores of ESNII

reactors by solving operational and safety issues Total budget: 9.37 M€; European contribution: 4.00 M€ Start: September 1st, 2017 Duration: 4 years

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Advance predictive capabilities of fast reactor fuel performance codes by

• Transferring knowledge acquired from basic and

technological research into operational tools

• Bringing together experts from various areas of expertise

INSPYRE Strategic Objectives and Approach

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Transfer results and approach of the project to users, develop training to prepare next generation of researchers and initiate or participate in

• utreach activities to improve public acceptance of next reactor generation

Make major breakthrough in understanding and describing fast reactor MOX behaviour under irradiation by coupling

• PIE results on neutron-irradiated fuel from past campaigns
• Separate effect experiments
• Multiscale and thermodynamic modelling

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INSPYRE Rationale and Organisation

5 Definition of needs Transfer of data

Fuels studied

Fast Reactor MOX fuel (U,Pu)O2, pure

• r with a few % Am

A few studies on UO2

+ 3 support WP

WP8: Education and training WP9: Communication, dissemination and exploitation of results WP10: Project management

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Participants

All partners of EERA JPNM fuel subprogrammes except Imperial College + project management SME Nuclear organizations: CEA/DEN (France), JRC (European Commission), ENEA (Italy), NNL (UK), NRG (The Netherlands), PSI (Switzerland), SCK.CEN (Belgium) Industrials: EDF (France) Academic organizations: CNRS (France), Aalto (Finland), KTH (Sweden), Polimi (Italy), TU Delft (The Netherlands) SME: LGI (France) 8 count ntries es + JRC

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Links to other H2020 projects and European initiatives

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Separation, retreatment

Structural materials (vessel, internals) Fuel pin, MOX

Ultimate waste ESFR-SMART

JPNM

Nuclear materials

ESNII

FR prototypes

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Achievements of the First 24 Months

Laying the foundations and first successes of INSPYRE

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First detailed characterizations of fresh uranium-plutonium oxide samples and of fission products compounds for the understanding

• f JOG

Significant progress in the preparation of the experiments planned for the measurement of creep under irradiation in the CNRS cyclotron in Orléans and the High Flux Reactor in Petten. Experiments will start early 2020 First-of-a-kind calculations at the atomic scale of thermodynamic properties, defect behaviour and fission gas incorporation in (U,Pu)O2 and impact of primary damage on mechanical properties Development of improved thermo- dynamic model for (U-Pu-Am-O) At the microscale, development of physics-based models describing inert gas behaviour, thermal and mechanical evolution Development of new experimental set-ups enabling characterization of Pu and Am bearing oxides in hot labs of several partners: Electrical conductivity device; positron annihilation lifetime spectrometer; compression test with O content control; High temperature Raman spectrometer; laser heating devices Analysis of available data and models and identification of gaps Assessment of current versions of fuel performance codes on previous irradiation experiments

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Dissemination and Communication

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Dissemina seminatio tion n of results ts 12 peer-reviewed articles submitted to journals 50 abstracts submitted for communications at conferences

• r workshops

4 PhDs defended Commu mmuni nicat cation ion Website online since 09/2017: http://www.eera- jpnm.eu/inspyre, refurbished in first trimester 2019 (includes collaborative platform for participants) First newsletter distributed in December 2018 Exhibition for the general public on the theme “Simulation to guarantee the safety of nuclear fuels in reactor” prepared and presented at 60th birthday of CEA Cadarache centre

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The three pillars of INSPYRE Education & Training activities

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Organization or co-organization

• f 2 workshops to disseminate

results and approach of INSPYRE to nuclear materials research community and users

• Co-organisation and financial

support to MMSNF-Nufuel 2019, PSI, Switzerland

• Organisation of final project

workshop in June-July 2021 in Aix-en-Provence Involvement of 20 PhDs and Post-Docs in the technical activities of the project Implementation of a mobility scheme: support of travel & accommodation costs to foster mobility of researchers between partner institutes of the project and give access to facilities or expertise Organisation of 2 summer schools to disseminate results and approach of INSPYRE toward young researchers and train next generation

• May 2019: Nuclear fuel cycle

in collaboration with GENIORS

• November 2020: Multiscale

modelling and characterization

• f nuclear materials with other

JPNM projects

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User Group

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Organi nisati sation

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Who ESNII Peter Baeten, SCK.CEN ASTRI RID D / SFR developme elopment nt programm ramme Nicolas Devictor  Jean-Claude Garnier, CEA MYRRHA RRHA Hamid Aït Abderrahim, Marc Schyns, SCK.CEN ALFRED ED FALCON ON Consor sorti tium Alessandro Alemberti, Ansaldo Nucleare Giacomo Grassi, ENEA ALLEGRO Akos Horvath, Zolter Holtan, MTA center for Energy research EDF Eric Molinié, Frédéric Laugier, EDF ORANO Dominique Favet, Véronique Garat, MELOX Cust stome

• mers

s of the project ect: : designers of ESNII reactor concepts, future fuel manufacturers, operators and TSOs that will license them

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Interaction with the User Group

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Meetings etings planne ned: d: 2 general eral meetings etings on INSPY PYRE RE results ts + 3 focused cused ones Invit itat ation

• n to final

al workshop hop of INSPY PYRE RE First t meet etin ing g of the User er Group (MS24)

• Organised on August 28th in Paris 6 users: Astrid / SFR

development programme, Myrrha, Allegro, EDF, ORAN0

• 5 INSPYRE representatives: coordinator + 3 WPL + PMO

 Strong support of users for INSPYRE approach and very constructive exchanges D9.4 4 publishe ished d in August ust 2019

• Synthesis of exchanges during the first meeting
• List of subjects for next meetings

Next t meet etin ing: g: January 2020 Topic: preliminary results of the assessment of FPC on irradiation experiments and definition of the relevant case studies representative of ESNII reactor conditions to be used for further assessment

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Conclusion

Conclusions

Very ambitious objectives Challenging studies on challenging materials Common work between a lot of researchers with different areas of expertise: exchanges will bring a lot to the research community After 24 months, activities are mostly progressing according to plan: foundations are laid and results are being obtained Delays and difficulties correlated with ambition and complexity of tasks planned

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INSPYRE has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 754329. This project is part of the research activities portfolio of the Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials.

Thank you for your attention

How did we get here: Timeline of European basic research on fuels

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2008-2012 FP7 project Start of 5 Pilot projects on fuels Labelling of INSPYRE proposal INSPYRE accepted starts December 2012 March-June 2016 March 2017 September 2017 Fuel research included in JPNM

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