RaDIATE MeetingSeptember 2013

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Agenda RaDIATE News

MOU Post-doc recruitment Collaboration, HPT Workshop New participants Other related news

Status Updates Stage 1 final report update BNL BLIP graphite/C-C progress

Subdivision of RaDIATE into teams discussionMiniature, sub-miniature, micro-mechanics testing

discussion (if time)

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RaDIATE NewsMOU

Signed, sealed, deliveredAmendment/Revision to add participants will be

drafted over the next few monthsPost-doc recruitment

Official offer made and acceptedCan start in January?Dr. Viacheslav KuksenkoCurrently with PSI working with Dr. Yong Dai

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RaDIATE NewsCollaboration Meeting Date

May 19 (Monday) 2014 at FermilabFollowed by 5th High Power Targetry Workshop

Fermilab, May 20-23Radiation damage covered on first day

New participants in meetingsSNS (B. Riemer)PSI (M. Wohlmuther, D. Kiselev)ESS (Y. Lee)

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RaDIATE NewsTRITON (TRiple Ion-beam Testing Of Nuclear

materials)Proposal submitted by EPSRC (Engineering and

Physical Sciences Research Council) to the government for approval

If accepted, more detailed proposal neededNNUF (National Nuclear Users Facility)

All equipment in placeWork started (non-active materials)Shielding and licensing hopefully in place to handle

active materials in 2015

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Status ReportsStage 1 final report

Final report is complete minus a few numbers from table 1 (numbers have just now been supplied)

Report weighs in at about a ¾” thick stack, double-sided

BLIP Graphite/C-C updateKavin(?)

“White board” Parameter Space Table updated recently

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RaDIATE Sub-division?The RaDIATE monthly meetings are becoming rather

unwieldy Number of participants Sometimes specific and lengthy discussions Not efficient for some participants

Sub-divide into material teams? Teams schedule meetings as necessary RaDIATE full meetings become quarterly Results in better efficiency and focus(?) Results in larger number of meetings in total But less meetings for each participant(?)

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RaDIATE Sub-division? Teams

Beryllium V. Kuksenko (P. Hurh in interim)

Graphite K. Ammigan

Tungsten C. Densham

Other materials(?) Other ways to sub-divide?

By discipline(?) Nuclear Materials Material limits for Design Applications Simulation/Analysis Experimental

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Specimen size/technique discussion:What miniature specimen standardized tests are being

used for radiation damage testing? Are these validated for graphite?

Has micro-mechanics techniques been validated or empirically correlated for Be and W?

Should we be engaged in validation testing of either miniature or micro-mechanics techniques for our materials in the near term?

What can we exploit/leverage from past and current work (IFMIF, PNNL, etc…)?

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View IFMIF presentation?

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Action Item List from July Provide official offer to selected post-doctoral candidate

(Roberts, Hurh, Densham)

Continue to investigate alternative, measureable effects that can be used to validate the DPA and gas production simulations (S. Brooks, et al.)

Continue graphite/C-C composite analysis from BLIP irradiation study (Ammigan, Simos, Hurh)

Investigate further availability of irradiated materials for testing (esp Be at CERN and Mini-BooNE) (Hurh/Ammigan/Calvianni)

Continue work on Be lit study, graphite lit studies and W studies (Final report due in July)

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Next MeetingAny conflicts with end of October?

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