Tuesday, September 16

Session 5:

Measurements and properties

Session chairman:

08.30 - 10.45

08.30 - 08.55

M. Brown

British Energy

AGR Gilsocarbon – Pulling Together Past and Present MTR Measurements

 

08.55 - 09.20

O. Wouters

NRG

Development of a dynamic Young’s modulus test setup for irradiated and oxidised graphite

 

09.20 - 09.45

T. Shibata

JAEA

R&Ds for application of IG-110 graphite to VHTR in-core components.

 

09.45 - 10.10

T. Burchell

ORNL

Biaxial Strength Testing of NBG-18 Graphite

 

10.10-  10.45

N. Ekinaga

Tokai Carbon

Fracture toughness tests of graphite materials of small size specimen

10.45 - 11.00

 

Break

 

 

11.00 - 12.30

 

Session 6

Creep

Session chairman: A. Laenen-Lievense

 

11.00 - 11.20

J. Reed

British Energy

CREEP: Can we conduct the right experiments at the right time

 

11.20 - 11.40

T. Burchell

ORNL

Irradiation Induced Creep in Graphite at High Temperature and Dose– A Revised Model

 

11.40 - 12.00

M. Bradford

British Energy

Creep models and creep experiments: comparing, contrasting and optimising

 

12.00 - 12.30

All

 

Discussions on creep

12.30 - 13.20

 

Lunch

 

 

13.20 - 13.50

 

Session 7

IAEA database

Session chairman: T. Wickham

 

13.20 - 13.50

All

 

Discussion session on  IAEA database

14.00

 

Departure by bus to Amsterdam; Excursion and Conference Diner