WP 8: Creating Impact
This JRP will be the first integrated (across temperature measurement, thermal properties of materials and ionising radiation) offering from the European metrology community to European Nuclear energy. It is likely to be the first step to provide the metrology input required by this growing R&D community.
This JRP will undertake complementary metrology work to the Euratom activities in the area, and any weapons related work is excluded. The JRP relies on existing excellent EU metrology capability.
The key aim of this workpackage is to maximize the JRP impact. This will be done assuring that the results from each work package will be disseminated:
To external bodies involved in the development of a new generation of nuclear power plants by the provision of, for example, nuclear data, measurement instruments, new measurement technology and improved traceable measurements and reference materials, plus soliciting feedback and input from these bodies.
b) Between the JRP-Partners to make sure that the work is efficient and complimentary, to improve on overall European competence and measurement capabilities and to maintain a collaborative environment across different scientific areas;
Building awareness of the MetroFission project amongst stakeholders
This work package will identify the main stakeholders and keep them aware of the MetroFission JRP’s objectives and developments. To this purpose a website will be set up to help wider dissemination of progress and highlights. The website will be periodically updated to reflect developments in the JRP, publish announcements of workshops and possibly help to receive feedback from the user community. Furthermore, early in the JRP the JRP-Partners will attend conferences related to the "building of a nuclear future" in their respective countries in order to create an early awareness of the MetroFission JRP and to create networks for two way knowledge exchange including dissemination of knowledge at a later stage.
A user-group/advisory board, associated with the JRP, will be set up by invitation of people representing the nuclear new-build and scientific experts in related areas. Target membership includes people from the nuclear industry, national nuclear laboratories, representatives from companies, international standard bodies and organisations (e.g. the IAEA), and NPP providers (e.g. AREVA, Westinghouse etc.) and energy providers (EDF) etc. The JRP-Consortium will agree the terms of reference for such a user group.
Ongoing work of national and international standardisation bodies will be reviewed to identify new standards under development related to MetroFission activities. Regulatory authorities and developers of industry standards or codes will also be identified. In such a case, the respective standard working groups will be informed about MetroFission activities and the expected outcomes to ensure that methods developed are acceptable to the Gen IV design community. A user group/advisory board recommendation and input would be taken into account in the process of identification of relevant standard bodies.
Case studies for press release will be put together and published throughout the lifetime of the project.
Knowledge Transfer, Training & Dissemination
One workshop for the presentation and discussion of ongoing JRP work will be organized each year to exchange information and discuss ongoing JRP work between all the JRP-Partners and to inform the advisory board of activities. These workshops will also involve invited speakers from outside the JRP-Consortium. As a complementing tool for communication, a video conferencing system will be set up for the purpose of knowledge transfer so that videoconferences can take place on occasions based on the proposed schedule or whenever the need to discuss special issues arises.
Short technical visits will allow the JRP-Partners to establish closer connections between themselves, in general or related to specific technical issues and also for the purpose of training junior scientists from other metrology institutes. The exchange of expertise will also be achieved via any funded REGs and RMGs connected to this JRP at a later stage. For all technical visits, visit reports will be circulated among the JRP-Partners to share relevant experiences.
Scientific papers will be submitted to peer-reviewed journals and presented at scientific conferences reflecting the scientific outcome of all work packages. As an outcome of WP5, nuclear data will be proposed as input to nuclear data evaluations and to the JEFF Nuclear database Website (The Joint Evaluated Fission and Fusion (JEFF) project is a collaboration between NEA Data Bank member countries). Knowledge will also be transferred to the community of radioactivity and materials/temperature metrologists, via contributions to Conferences and Working Groups of International Committees for Radionuclide Metrology and Materials and Temperature, respectively.
Knowledge transfer specifically aimed at the end user
The most important channels for external dissemination will be identified at the beginning of the JRP and reviewed yearly to make sure that the JRP attend or organise or co-organise with the identified bodies. The results achieved in the JRP will be made available to the nuclear new-build community, through contribution to relevant working groups, workshops and conferences1.
The relevant end-users, as identified by the JRP-Consortium and the advisory board during the early part of the project, (for example Areva, Westinghouse, EDF, NNL, CEA and the IAEA) will be invited to be involved in order to improve knowledge transfer. One externally facing workshop covering all areas of the JRP and open to stakeholders (and user-group/advisory board), will be held by ENEA before the mid point of the JRP. The aim of this workshop will be to invite outside speakers, present progress and development of the JRP so far and to invite feedback. Towards the end of the JRP, the same type of workshop will be organised by the LNE with sessions on specific topics, where SMU will be responsible for the radionuclide metrology part and IFIN-HH will be responsible for the part dealing with nuclear data. If it is identified during the course of the JRP that it is feasible to organise this workshop as part of a larger conference or workshop, this will be considered and judged on the criteria of which option will have the largest benefit to the end users. Stakeholders will be invited to discuss the results obtained, further needs in this fields and possible solutions, etc.
At the end of the JRP the JRP-Partners will provide a recommendation on future metrology needs in nuclear fission. It is expected that the JRP will produce a better integration of EU metrology with the Nuclear Power community.
Exploitation activities
The results will be published in scientific journals (after considering Intellectual Property agreements) and has the potential to influence instrument manufacturers and new NPP providers as well as regulatory bodies.
Tasks
8.1 Building awareness of the MetroFission project amongst stakeholders (NPL, all)
Set up website for dissemination of progress and high-lights etc. (NPL, all) Maintain and periodically update the website (NPL, all) Attend relevant conferences and meetings to present MetroFission (NPL, all) Invite experts to form a user-group/advisory board with people representing the nuclear new-build and scientific experts in related areas (i.e. companies, industrial groups and NPP operators) (NPL, all) Set up terms of reference with user-group/advisory board (NPL, all) Indentify the most relevant standards and related working groups of standardisation bodies and/or regulatory authorities and the developers of industry standards or codes, for the MetroFission project and attend meetings/apply for partnership. (NPL, all) Put together case studies for press release (in JRP official journal, trade magazines, etc.). (NPL, all)
8.2 Training and development of JRP-Partner scientists (ENEA, all)
Organise one workshop each year for the presentation and discussion of ongoing JRP work (ENEA, all) Set up video conferencing facility (or similar) and propose schedule for communication (ENEA, all) Exchange scientific information between JRP-Partners by video conferencing (ENEA, all) Agree on technical and training visits of scientists between JRP-Participants (ENEA, all) Training of JRP scientists by technical visits and circulation of detailed visit reports (ENEA, all)
8.3 Scientific knowledge transfer (ENEA, all)
Submit papers to peer-reviewed journals (all) Contribute to Conferences and Working Groups related to Radionuclide and Neutron Metrology (ENEA, all) Contribute to Conferences and Working Groups related to Materials and Temperature (LNE, all) Contribute to Conferences related to measurements in Nuclear Power Plants (ENEA, all) Make available information/data to standards bodies, regulatory authorities and developers of industry standards and codes, in a format which is acceptable to them (ENEA, all)
8.4 Knowledge transfer specifically aimed at end-user (ENEA, all)
Organise and hold workshop for stakeholder and user-group/advisory board (ENEA, all) Organise and hold workshop for stakeholder and user-group/advisory board (LNE, all) Organise sessions on Radionuclide Metrology (SMU) and Nuclear Data (IFIN-HH) in workshop open to end-user (IFIN-HH, SMU, all) Provide recommendation on future metrology needs in nuclear fission (ENEA, all)
1 In particular, communication will be focused to those groups which are involved in neutron cross sections and nuclear decay data measurement and evaluation, in on-site activity measurements determination of low-energy beta-emitters created in the fuel cycle and reactor activation products taking advantage of new portable measuring equipment (TDCR) and new digital acquisition systems (DCC).