MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 • 8:00 A.M. – 10:15 A.M.

Opening Plenary: Zero by 2010

Session Chairs: Roger Reynolds (AREVA-USA), Myung Seung Yang (KAERI-Korea)

 

Speakers:

Amir Shahkarami (Exelon-USA)

DS Song (KAERI-Korea)

Kevin Donovan (INPO-USA)

Nicolas Waeckel (EDF-France)

Kurt Edsinger (EPRI-USA)

Kazuhiro Suzuki (TEPCO-Japan)

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 • 10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

Operating Experience, Fuel Reliability: BWR Fuel Performance

Session Chairs: James Malone (Exelon-USA), Jack Fuller (GNF-USA)

 

GNF2 Operating Experience, John Schardt (GE Energy, Nuclear-USA)

 

Westinghouse BWR Fuel Reliability – Recent Experience and Analyses, Kristina Ryttersson, Sture Helmersson, Jonathan Wright, Lars Hallstadius (Westinghouse-Sweden AB)

 

Dimensional Behavior of Fuel Channels - Recent Experience and Consequences, Dirk Blavius, Claus-Jürgen Muench (AREVA NP-USA), Norman L. Garner (AREVA NP-USA)

 

Channel Bow in Boiling Water Reactors - Hot Cell Examination Results and Correlation to Measured Bow, S.T. Mahmood, Y.-P. Lin, M.A. Dubecky (GNF-USA), K. Edsinger, E.V. Mader (EPRI-USA)

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 • 1:15 P.M. – 2:30 P.M.

Operating Experience, Fuel Reliability: PWR Fuel Performance

Session Chair: Scott Ferguson (WCNOC-USA)

 

Modern Fuel Cladding in Demanding Operation - ZIRLO in Full Life High Lithium PWR Coolant, Kenneth Kargol (Pacific Gas & Electric Company-USA), Jim Stevens (TXU Power-USA), John Bosma, Jayashri Iyer, Gunnar Wikmark (Westinghouse-USA)

 

Performance of Alloy M5™ Cladding and Structure, G.L. Garner (AREVA-NP-USA), B.A. Hilton (INL-USA), E. Mader (EPRI-USA)

 

In-reactor Verification of Advanced Nuclear Fuel, PLUS7TM, for KSNPs, Young Ki Jang, Jae Ik Kim, Kyu Tae Kim, Chong Chul Lee, Chan Oh Park (KNFC-Korea)

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 • 2:30 P.M. – 3:45 P.M.

Fuel Failure Mechanism and Analysis

Session Chair: Nicolas Waeckel (EDF-France)

 

Studies of Hydrogen Assisted Failures Initiating at the Cladding Outer Surface of High Burnup Fuel Using a Modified Ring Tensile Technique, A.-M. Alvarez-Holston, G. Lysell, V. Grigoriev (Studsvik Nuclear-Sweden)

 

Experimental Study on the Influence of the Supporting Condition and Rod Motion on the Fuel Fretting Damage, Hyung-Kyu Kim, Young-Ho Lee (KAERI-Korea)

 

A Model for Predicting Coolant Activity Behaviour for Fuel-Failure Monitoring Analysis, B.J. Lewis, A. El-Jaby, J. Higgs, W.T. Thompson (RMC-Canada), F.C. Iglesias, R. Laidler, J. Armstrong, R. Stone, R. Oduntan, M. Ip (Bruce Power-Canada) SLIDES NOT AVAILABLE

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 • 4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.

Influence of Water Chemistry on Fuel

Session Chairs: Robert Freeman (AREVA-USA), Motoyashu Kinoshita (CRIEPI-Japan)

 

Electrochemical Potential (ECP) of Clean Heated Fuel Cladding Material and Structural SS under BWR Operating Conditions, Mike G. Pop, Merl Bell (AREVA NP-USA), Renate Kilian, Thomas Dorsch, Mueller Christian (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany)

 

Water Chemistry Influence on AOA Phase 3 of the Spanish Experiment at Studsvik, N. Doncel (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas-Spain), J. Chen (Studsvik Nuclear AB-Sweden), J. Deshon (EPRI-USA)

 

AREVA NP Fuel Condition Index for Boiling Water Reactors, Mike G. Pop, Merl Bell, Brian Lockamon (AREVA NP-USA)

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007 • 8:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Fuel Assembly Design and Cladding

Session Chairs: Lars Hallstadius (Westinghouse Atom AB-Sweden), John Schardt (GE Energy, Nuclear-USA)

 

Safety and Economic of High Power Density PWR with Novel Annular Fuel, J. Beccherle, P. Hejzlar, M.S. Kazimi (MIT-USA)

 

High Mechanical Performance of AREVA Upgraded Fuel Assemblies for PWR in USA, Dennis Gottuso (AREVA NP-USA), Jean-Noel Canat, Pierre Mollard (AREVA NP-France)

 

Upgraded Fuel Assemblies for BWRs, N.L. Garner (AREVA NP-USA), T. Rentmeister, H.-J. Lippert (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany), P. Mollard (AREVA NP-France)

 

AREVA Cr2O3-Doped Fuel Development for BWRs, C. Delafoy (AREVA NP-France), P. Dewes (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany), T. Miles (AREVA NP-USA)

 

Overview on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties of HANA Claddings, Jong-Hyuk Baek, Byoung-Kwon Choi (KAERI-Korea), Yong-Jun Oh (Hanbat Univ-Korea), Yong-Hwan Jeong (KAERI-Korea)

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007 • 10:15 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.

Fuel Fabrication, Methods and Models

Session Chairs: Peter Urban (AREVA NP-Germany), Zeses E. Karoutas (Westinghouse-USA)

 

Design, Feasibility, and Testing of Instrumented Rod Bundle to Improve Heat Transfer Knowledge in PWR Fuel Assemblies, A. Bergeron (CEA, Saclay-France), T. Chataing (CEA, Grenoble-France), E. Décossin (EDF-DRD-France), J. Garnier (CEA, Grenoble-France), P. Péturaud (EDF-DRD-France), S.K. Yagnik (EPRI-USA)

 

CFD Simulations of a Flow Mixing and Heat Transfer Enhancement in an Advanced LWR Nuclear Fuel Assembly, Wang-Kee In, Tae-Hyun Chun, Chang-Hwan Shin, Dong-Seok Oh (KAERI-Korea)

 

Controlled Beta-quench Treatment of Fuel Channels, Andreas Moeckel, Ingo Cremer, Anton Kratzer (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany), Richard A. Perkins (AREVA NP-USA), Dirk Walter (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany)

 

The Manufacture and Performance of Homogeneous-Microstructure SBR MOX Fuel, Matthew A. Barker, Keith Stephenson, Rebecca Weston (Nexia Solutions Ltd-UK) coming soon

 

ARCADIA® - A New Generation of Coupled Neutronics / Core Thermal-Hydraulics Code System at AREVA NP, Florin Curca-Tivig, Stephan Merk, Andreas Pautz, Sébastien Thareau (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany)

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007 • 1:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.

Fuel Rods and Structural Components

Session Chairs: Pierre Mollard (AREVA NP-France), Yong Hwan Jeong (KAERI-Korea)

 

In-Reactor Creep Behavior of Zircaloy-2, John Paul Foster (Westinghouse-USA), Margaret Ann McGrath (OECD Halden Reactor Project-Norway)

 

Development of Modified MDA (M-MDA), PWR Fuel Cladding Tube for High Duty Operation in Future, Seiichi Watanabe (MHI-Japan), Toshiya Kido (NDC-Japan), Yasushi Arakawa (Kansai-Japan)

 

The Effects of Cladding Chemical Composition on Corrosion Behavior of High Burnup BWR Fuel (Corrosion Properties of Low Iron and Low Silicon Content Cladding), Yasuyuki Otsuka, Moriyasu Abe (TEPCO-Japan), Kazuo Kakiuchi, Takuji Fukuda, Koichi Ohira, Noboru Itagaki (NFI-Japan)

 

Fracture of Hydrided Zircaloy-4 Sheet under Through-Thickness Crack Growth Conditions, P.A. Raynaud, D.A. Koss, A.T. Motta (Penn State Univ-USA), K.S. Chan (Southwest Research Institute-USA)

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007 • 4:00 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.

High Burn-up Fuel

Session Chairs: Carl E. Beyer (PNNL-USA), Kari Ranta-Puska (TVO-Finland)

 

Thermal Diffusivity of Homogeneous SBR MOX Fuel with a Burn-up of 35 MWd/kgHM, D. Staicu, G. Pagliosa, D. Papaioannou, V.V. Rondinella, C. Cozzo, R. Konings, C.T. Walker (Institute for Transuranium Elements, JRC-Germany), M. Barker (Nexia Solutions-UK), R. Weston (British Nuclear Group Sellafield-UK)

 

Final Assessment of MOX Fuel Performance Experiment with Japanese PWR Specification Fuel in the HBWR, Hajime Fujii, Hideyuki Teshima, Katsumasa Kanasugi (MHI-Japan), Yuji Kosaka (Nuclear Development Corporation-Japan), Yasushi Arakawa (Kansai Electric Power Co-Japan)

 

Fission Gas Distribution and Behavior in the High Burn-up Structure, Ch. Hellwig, M.I. Horvath (PSI-Switzerland), P.R. Blair, R. Chawla (PSI, EPFL-Switzerland), D. Günther (ETH Zurich-Switzerland)

 

Fuel Modelling at Extended Burnup: IAEA Coordinated Research Project FUMEX-II, J.C. Killeen (IAEA), J.A. Turnbull (Consultant-UK), E. Sartori (OECD/ NEA-France)

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007 • 8:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

Fuel Behavior during Design Basis Accidents (RIA and LOCA)

Session Chairs: Javier Riverola (ENUSA-Spain), Samim Anghaie (Univ of Florida-USA)

 

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Strategy for Revising the RIA Acceptance Criteria, Paul M. Clifford (USNRC-USA)

 

High Temperature Expansion Due to Compression Test for the Determination of a Cladding Material Failure Criterion under RIA Loading Conditions, M. Le Saux, C. Poussard, X. Averty, C. Sainte Catherine, S. Carassou (CEA Saclay-France), J. Besson (Centre des Matériaux, Mines Paris-France)

 

JAEA Studies on High Burnup Fuel Behaviors during Reactivity-Initiated Accident and Loss-of-Coolant Accident, Toyoshi Fuketa, Tomoyuki Sugiyama, Fumihisa Nagase, Motoe Suzuki (JAEA-Japan)

 

Behavior of Zr1%Nb Fuel Cladding under Accident Conditions, E. Perez-Feró, Z. Hózer, P. Windberg, I. Nagy, A. Vimi, N. Vér, L. Matus, M. Kunstár, T. Novotny, M. Horváth (AEKI-Hungary), Cs. Gyõri (JRC ITU-Germany)

 

Overview of the M5™ Alloy Behavior under RIA and LOCA Conditions, J.P. Mardon (AREVA NP-France), B. Dunn (AREVA NP-USA)

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007 • 11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

Fuel Behavior during Off-normal Transient

Session Chairs: Peter Urban (AREVA-USA), Jinzhao Zhang (Tractebel Engineering-Belgium)

 

Multidimensional Modeling of a Ramp Test with the PWR Fuel Performance Code ALCYONE, G. Thouvenin, B. Michel, J. Sercombe, D. Plancq (CEA-France), P. Thevenin (EDF-France)

 

The Mechanical Behavior of Pellet-Cladding with the Missing Chip under PCMI Loadings during Power Ramp

J.-S. Lee, J.S. Yoo, H.K. Kim (KNFC-Korea), D. Mitchell, Y. Aleshin (Westinghouse-USA)

 

Computer Simulation of Non-congruent Melting of Non-stoichiometric Uranium Dioxide Fuel, M.J. Welland, W.T. Thompson, B.J. Lewis (Royal Military College of Canada)

 

ATWS Analysis with an Advanced Boiling Curve Approach within COBRA 3-CP, A. Gensler, A. Knoll, K. Kühnel (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany)

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007 • 1:45 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.

Neutronics, Thermal, Mechanical Methodologies

Session Chair: Nadine Hollasky (AVN-Belgium), Toyoshi Fuketa (JAEA-Japan)

 

Impact of Plant Noise on BWR Stability Analyses, J.G.M. Andersen, G. Pearson (Global Nuclear Fuel-USA), A.K. Chung, C.L. Heck, J. Vedovi (GE Nuclear-USA)

 

Approach to Analyze Potentially Limiting Hot Low Power BWR Control Rod Drop Accident, Staffan Söderholtz (Westinghouse-Sweden), Eric Ramenblad (Vattenfall Bränsle AB-Sweden), Björn Schröder (Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB-Sweden)

 

Non-Linear Dynamics Analysis of a PWR with up-to-date Fuel Design, J. Riverola (ENUSA-Spain)

 

The COPERNIC3 Project: How AREVA is Successfully Developing an Advanced Global Fuel Rod Performance Code, Ch. Garnier (AREVA NP-France), F. Sontheimer (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany), P. Mailhé (AREVA NP-France), H. Landskron, D. Deuble (AREVA NP GmbH-Germany), V.I. Arimescu, M. Billaux (AREVA NP-USA)

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2007 • 3:15 P.M. – 4:45 P.M.

Fuel Cycle, Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation

Session Chair: Robert Freeman (AREVA-USA)

 

Study on Hydride Reorientation in Zry-2 Fuel Claddings during Interim Dry Storage, K. Sakamoto, H. Matsuoka (GNF-Japan), A. Takagi (TEPCO-Japan), S. Kashibe (NFD-Japan)

 

Fabrication Characteristics of Large Grain DUPIC Pellet Using SIMFUEL, Geun IL Park, Jung Won Lee, Jae Won Lee, Myung Seung Yang, Kee Chan Song (KAERI-Korea)

 

Threat of Hydride Re-orientation to Spent Fuel Integrity During Transportation Accidents: Myth or Reality?, Joe Rashid (ANATECH-USA), Albert Machiels (EPRI-USA)

 

Evaluation of Hoop Creep Behaviors in Long-term Dry Storage Condition of Pre-hydrided and High Burn-up Nuclear Fuel Cladding, Sun-Ki Kim, J.G. Bang, D.H. Kim, Y.S. Yang (KAERI-Korea)