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Materials Engineering for the next Nuclear Generation

Stephen J Garwood

Director Engineering & Technology

Rolls-Royce, Submarines

©2008 Rolls-Royce Group plc�The information in this document is the property of Rolls-Royce Group plc and may not be copied or communicated to a third party, or used for any purpose other than that for which it is supplied without the express written consent of Rolls-Royce Group plc.

This information is given in good faith based upon the latest information available to Rolls-Royce Group plc, no warranty or representation is given concerning such information, which must not be taken as establishing any contractual or other commitment binding upon Rolls-Royce Group plc or any of its subsidiary or associated companies.

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Disclaimer!

  • Tonight’s lecture is my personal view based on over 30 years working on material related matters for the UK’s nuclear industry at IC, TWI and RR.

  • My comments therefore do not necessarily reflect the view of RR, TWI or IC

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Outline

  • Days of Future Passed

  • The Present

  • The Future

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  • Days of Future Passed

  • The Present

  • The Future

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(On the Threshold of a Dream)

Or are we!

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Days of Future Passed - Timeline

  • 1956 Calder Hall opened
  • 1958 UK/US Enabling Agreement
  • 1959 HMS Dreadnought (S5W)
  • 1963 PWR1 (Valiant)
  • 1963 AGRs
  • 1974 SGHWR ordered
  • 1975 PFR (connected to grid)
  • 1986 PWR2 (Vanguard)
  • 1987-1995 Sizewell B (1969 AGR, 1974 SGHWR,and UK’s first commercial PWR 1980)

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The Queen opened Calder Hall in October 1956

The Queen has opened the world's first full-scale nuclear power station, at Calder Hall in Cumberland.

A crowd of several thousand people gathered to watch the opening ceremony, which was also attended by scientists and statesmen from almost 40 different countries.

The Lord Privy Seal, Richard Butler, described the event as "epoch-making".

He added, "It may be that after 1965 every new power station being built will be an atomic power station."

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UK’s Nuclear Power Stations 1980��R W Nichols�26th Hatfield Lecture�1975� ‘Steels contribution to Nuclear Power - Its Problems & Promise’��(Willoughby & Garwood - Metal Construction�Oct 1980)

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1980 Reactor Systems

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Historical perspective

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Admiral Hyman G Rickover USN

“Father of the nuclear navy”

1900 – 1986

  • US nuclear propulsion programme
  • Rickover and Mountbatten
  • 1958 bilateral agreement
  • S5W and Dreadnought
  • Rolls-Royce & Associates
  • DS/MP

SSN 571 USS Nautilus

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Rickover on Rolls-Royce….

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“I formed a very good impression of the Rolls-Royce team; the leading men in it are competent and imaginative and, in my view, are capable of doing a first class job.”

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RR Nuclear Engineering

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Operational support

The Rolls-Royce submarines business provides full range nuclear services to the UK Navy

Waterfront support

Prototyping of RN reactor plants

Faslane

Vulcan

Build yard - Astute

HPV, NMS

Core Manufacture

Submarines HQ

Submarines 2007

Turnover: £265m

People: 1738

Plymouth

Derby

Barrow

Bristol - JET

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Rolls-Royce on Raynesway

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Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment�at Dounreay

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Reactor core development

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Z

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H

Normalised to S5W

Core type

Key:

Power

Lifetime

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A(S5W)

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History of Submarine Build Programmes

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Burdekin & Capability Study

Burdekin Review (2003)

  • Commissioned by MoD CSA
  • How to improve submarine availability?
  • Main conclusion: Need for underlying research programme to inform periodic review

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Nuclear Propulsion Capability Study

  • Commissioned by MoD CSA
  • What is required to keep nuclear propulsion sustainable?
  • Main conclusion: unsustainable without research and future plant programmes to support key skills & infrastructure

Periodic Safety & Availability Review

Nuclear Propulsion Critical Technology

Next Generation Nuclear Propulsion Plant

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The Present

  • Keeping the Nuclear Fleet Operating

Material Factors influencing Reactor performance

PWR Reactor Pressure Vessel steels

Structural Integrity Assessment

  • Decline of Nuclear Engineers and UK Capability

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Royal Navy nuclear submarine fleet

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D

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HMS Valiant

Valiant class

HMS Warspite

Resolution class

D

HMS Dreadnought

Dreadnought class

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D

HMS Churchill

Churchill class

HMS Conqueror

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HMS Courageous

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HMS Resolution

HMS Renown

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HMS Repulse

D

HMS Revenge

Trafalgar class

Astute class

D

HMS Swiftsure

Swiftsure class

HMS Vanguard

Vanguard class

HMS Victorious

HMS Vigilant

B

B

Astute

Artful

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Ambush

B

Audacious

HMS Sovereign

HMS Superb

HMS Sceptre

HMS Spartan

HMS Splendid

HMS Trafalgar

HMS Turbulent

HMS Tireless

HMS Torbay

HMS Trenchant

HMS Talent

HMS Triumph

HMS Vengeance

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Decommissioned

In-build

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Trafalgar class – Reactor Compartment

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Submarine - Nuclear Propulsion Plant

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Reactor Compartment

Reactor

Compartment

Reactor

Core

Pressuriser

Steam Generator

Decay Heat

Removal Tank

Ion

Exchange Column

MUD Vessel

Primary Shield

Tank

Turbo Generator (AC)

Main Turbine

Gearbox

Condenser

Main

Feed Pump

Diesel Tank

Auxiliary

Power

AC & DC

Surge Tank

Main

Coolant Pump

Reactor

Compartment

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Factors influencing reactor materials performance

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material

loading

environment

composition

mechanical working

welding

thermal treatments

microstructure

defects

pressure

residual stress

thermal

structural

temperature

water chemistry

electrochemical potential

pH; cleanliness

radiation

corrosion

radiation hardening

fatigue

fracture

plastic deformation

embrittlement

radiation creep

environmentally assisted cracking

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Nuclear fission

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Fission of U235 is caused by low energy “slow” neutrons. When fission occurs, fast neutrons are produced.

Fast neutrons are either converted to slow neutrons by collisions within the moderator (water) or are absorbed by surrounding materials where they cause radiation damage.

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Displacement cascade

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Primary circuit materials

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ferritic steels

austenitic stainless steels

martensitic stainless steels

cobalt alloys (Stellite)

nickel-copper alloys

zirconium alloys

nickel alloys

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Materials performance in PWRs -��(Ted Darby RR Fellows Lecture – Materials Performance in Pressurised Water Reactors)

    • Stainless steels

    • Zirconium alloys

    • RPV steel

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Factors affecting stainless steel component integrity

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material

loading

environment

composition

thermal treatments

welding process

microstructure

cold work

residual stress

thermal

structural

strain rate

temperature

water chemistry

electrochemical potential

flow rate

radiation

corrosion

thermal ageing

sensitisation

fatigue

fracture

plastic deformation

environmentally assisted cracking

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Cracking in welded seal sample

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IGSCC

TGSCC in weld HAZ

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Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking

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Sensitisation - Cr depletion at grain boundary

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IGSCC mechanism

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EAC mechanism understanding – crack tip studies

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IGSCC in non-sensitised materials and “special” grain boundaries…

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PWR fuel assembly

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ABB 17x17 PWR fuel assembly picture courtesy of ABB Atom AB

Alloy 625 (Ni-base) �Zry-4

Stainless Steel Type 304L

Zry-4 (low Sn), SRA�Zirlo

Duplex

M5

UO2,Gd2O3

He

Zry-4 (low Sn)

Zry-4 (low Sn), RXA

Inconel X-718 (Ni-base)

fuel rod bowing

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Zr performance: corrosion and hydriding

Zr + 2H2O ZrO2 + 4H

  • ZrO2 thermal resistance �causes fuel temperature rise
  • Some hydrogen absorbed:
    • Zircaloy-2 – 50-80%
    • Zircaloy-4 – 10-20%
  • Hydrogen diffuses rapidly �at operating temperatures
  • Low hydrogen solubility: �brittle hydrides form

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centreline

cladding

oxide

water flow

Fuel Pellet

gap

fuel rod temperature profile

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Zircaloy corrosion mechanism

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Zircaloy-4 corrosion & SPP dissolution�

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(Garzarolli, ASTM STP 1423)

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Hydride blister in fuel cladding

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Ref. A. M. Garde, G. P. Smith, and R. C. Pirek, “Effects of Hydride Precipitate Localization and Neutron Fluence

on the Ductility of Irradiated Zr-4”, ASTM STP 1295, 1996.

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DHC mechanism in zirconium alloys

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DHC initiated at notch in irradiated Zircaloy-2

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grain boundary

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DHC threshold and crack growth rate

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KIH

1cm/day

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Hydrogen solubility in irradiated Zircaloy

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Hydrogen concentration (ppm)

Tssp

Tssd

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hydride precipitation

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DHC mechanism and critical temperatures

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TMIN

Temperature

DHC growth

rate

TDAT

TRIT

TMAX

Hydrogen diffusion

to crack tip

Hydride

precipitation

Hydride

fracture

Over-temperature

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CANDU reactor fuel channel

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DHC in CANDU pressure tubes

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  • Local crack
  • Tube rupture (Pickering 2 G-16)

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Catastrophic failure of cylindrical pressure vessel

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MV Kurdistan�April 1979

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Fracture Mechanics Concepts

  • G = Pi(sigma 2) a / E

  • K = sigma (pi x a)1/2

  • G = (K)2 / E

  • J = G

  • J = M sigmaY CTOD

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Fracture Mechanics Concepts

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J F Knott

Hatfield Lecture

“Quantifying The Quality of Steel”

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K I Reference Curve

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Master Curve

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Failure Probability

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Reactor pressure vessel

  • Welded construction using ferritic steel plates (PWR1) and forgings (PWR2)

  • Limiting region for structural integrity is the highly irradiated ‘beltline’

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RPV steel – �corrosion� fatigue

  • Potential for up to 100x enhancement in crack growth rate in water due to EAC mechanism

  • Sulphur content of steel and/or water established as key variable

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Ductile – brittle transition in ferritic steels

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Temperature

Ductile / Brittle Transition

Stress

Impact Energy

Yield Strength

Fracture Strength

Upper Shelf�(Ductile)

Lower Shelf�(Brittle)

Temperature

DBTT – irradiation shift

irradiation hardening

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Reactor Pressure Vessel

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OUST

ALARP

IOF

TAGSI

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Failure Analysis Diagram

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TWI - Biaxial Wide Plate�A533B

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TWI Biaxial Test A533B

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Biaxial & Uniaxial Wide Plates�A533B

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Ductile-Brittle�Transition Curve��A533B��Effect of Constraint

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Factors affecting Actual to Predicted Fracture Behaviour

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  • Constraint (bend tension biaxial)
  • Thickness/size
  • Crack acuity
  • Crack position
  • Proof Loading
  • Material issues

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Big Bang video

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Irradiation damage mechanism in steels

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Irradiation shift results from hardening due to both matrix damage and solute, e.g. copper precipitation.

In addition, phosphorus segregation to grain boundaries can cause further embrittlement.

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Fracture mechanisms and mechanics

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3D Atom Probe data for RPV steel aged at 365˚C

  • Higher density of Cu clusters formed in higher Ni alloy

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10nm

1.5 at.% Ni

0.3 at.% Ni

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3D Atom Probe analysis of RPV steel aged at 365˚C

  • A shell of Ni, Mn and Si formed around Cu clusters after ageing at 365˚C for 3000 hours
  • Other solutes segregate weakly, or not at all

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Cu Ni Mn Si

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Cu precipitates in RPV steel

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  • For irradiation sensitive steels the through life shift in brittle fracture boundary can eventually impose operating restrictions

  • In modern steels, shift is minimised by controls on potential embrittling elements: Cu, P, etc.

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Consequences

steam line

brittle fracture boundary

irradiation shift

coolant pressure (bar)

coolant temperature (oc)

“Boot diagram”

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Possible contribution by TJW to an SJG talk covering “Activities/issues on irradiation embrittlement of RPV materials and how industry will solve these in the future, base materials and welds” (SJG email 28/09/08).��Draft 2 10/10/08

©2008 Rolls-Royce Group plc�The information in this document is the property of Rolls-Royce Group plc and may not be copied or communicated to a third party, or used for any purpose other than that for which it is supplied without the express written consent of Rolls-Royce Group plc.

This information is given in good faith based upon the latest information available to Rolls-Royce Group plc, no warranty or representation is given concerning such information, which must not be taken as establishing any contractual or other commitment binding upon Rolls-Royce Group plc or any of its subsidiary or associated companies.

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Current issues (1)

  • There is a requirement to extend RPV lifetimes to 60 or 80 years, but
    • Current empirical data are limited to about 20 year irradiation exposures
    • There remains a potential for unexpected new (slow kinetics) damage mechanisms to emerge from longer-term irradiations
    • Surveillance schemes did not anticipate lifetimes beyond 40 years, there are few specimens left in reactor to provide forewarning of such mechanisms
    • Some implicit assumptions of current prediction methods are not validated

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Current Issues (2)

  • All regulatory models used to predict irradiation shift are empirically fitted to surveillance data
    • They cannot therefore be used to predict shifts for new materials or for different irradiation environments (e.g. operating temperatures, and neutron fluences and spectra)
  • In a few cases the materials used in current RPVs are outwith the general population of surveillance data

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Current issues (3)

  • Some major funding bodies worldwide have perceived that the “irradiation damage problem” has been resolved for Gen II and Gen III RPVs, resulting in a drastic reduction in research programmes.
    • (The problems associated with justification of 80 year operation are now becoming recognized, but significant damage has already been done to the resource.)

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Potential solutions (1)

  • A considerable amount of work has been done to develop understanding of irradiation damage through studies of irradiated microstructures at the nanometer scale and through analytical work.
  • The results can be used to develop Mechanistically-Based Correlation (MBC) models, which are more robust than the current empirical or semi-empirical models.
    • Such models are not yet widely used in safety justification
  • A limited amount of work, generally involving international collaboration, to develop understanding continues. It is expected that this will be enhanced by the (€5M) NULIFE PC1 programme, which will bid for EC FP7 funding

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Potential solutions (2)

  • There is a continuing major effort worldwide to develop predictive models of irradiation damage through analytical and numerical physical models across the time and length scales involved.
  • Such multi-scale physics (MSP) models can in-principle be reliably extrapolated, but it is likely to be many years before they are sufficiently developed and validated for regulatory acceptance.
  • However, they are already becoming useful to develop insight and understanding, and to improve MBC models.
  • MSP modelling is being pursued for Gen II, Gen III, Gen IV and fusion reactors. For Gen II/III work has been done in the (€18M) EC PERFECT project and is about to resume in the (€12M) EC PERFORM60 project.

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Potential solutions (3)

  • For new Gen III plant there are options to:
    • Improve start of life toughness (for both base material and welds) by improved specifications, processing and fabrication, or by introducing new materials
    • Introduce materials which are less sensitive to irradiation
    • Reduce uncertainties (and therefore increase margins) by improved start of life toughness estimation, improved surveillance programmes and improved through-life toughness prediction methods

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Potential solutions (4)

  • For some existing plant, it may be possible to increase confidence in RPV properties by extracting samples from the RPV wall, which are small enough not to compromise integrity
    • Possible techniques for non-destructive monitoring of in-service degradation have been investigated
  • For some existing plant (notably VVER reactors), it may be possible to reduce or remove irradiation damage through vessel annealing – already done successfully for VVER-440 reactors)

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Ductile – brittle transition in ferritic steels

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Ductile / Brittle Transition

Stress

Impact Energy

Yield Strength

Fracture Strength

Upper Shelf�(Ductile)

Lower Shelf�(Brittle)

Temperature

DBTT – irradiation shift

irradiation hardening

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Irradiation shift – fracture toughness

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Irradiation damage mechanism in steels

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Irradiation shift results from hardening due to both matrix damage and solute, e.g. copper precipitation.

In addition, phosphorus segregation to grain boundaries can cause further embrittlement.

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Model of a displacement cascade ca 2002

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With thanks to Brian Wirth, University of California, Berkeley

Solute atom

(e.g., Cr, Cu,

Mn, Ni)

Self-interstitial

Atom (SIA)

Vacancy

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Low Nickel Weld

0.073at% Ni

~ 0.5at% Cu

High Nickel Weld

1.58at% Ni

~ 0.5at% Cu

Irradiated to 33 mdpa

Irradiated to 30 mdpa

Atom Probe Data

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3DAP micrograph

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In addition to Cu, clusters also contain a large proportion of Mn and Ni, some Si, occasionally P. They may also contain up to 50% Fe (disputed). Mn and Ni tend to be segregated to the interface.

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Simulated microstructure after irradiation

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With thanks to Stéphanie Jumel, EDF, France

End of life microstructure for a weld with 0.3% Cu

Vacancy

SIA

Cu

Mn

Ni

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The Present

  • Ageing Nuclear Legacy
  • Decline of Nuclear Engineers and UK Capability
  • Select Committee on Defence
  • Select Committee on Nuclear Skills

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Sheffield Forgemasters

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The Future - On The Threshold of a Dream

  • Next Generation of Nuclear Power Stations
  • Next Generation of Nuclear Submarines
  • Next Generation of Nuclear Engineers
  • Nuclear Future

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  • NGNPP for Submarine propulsion
  • Gen III+ for Power Generation

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What the papers say!

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UK’s Nuclear Power Stations�2008

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Next Generation in the UK

  • Gen 1
  • Gen 2
  • Gen 3
  • 3P’s vs 3 E’s Chatham House Conference
  • Gen 4?

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I Want That One!

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UK vs Rest of World

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  • Improved Safety
  • Improved Availability
  • Reduced Whole Life Cost

Design – Future Concepts

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PILM - CADMID

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‘Cradle to Graveside’

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A533BclassI A508classIII HY80

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Submarines Engineering Population - 2008

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Skill

Graduate

Engineers -

Submarines

Applied Science

13

Controls

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Design

150

Electrical

22

Materials

47

Mechanical

40

Nuclear

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Product Definition

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Safety & Reliability

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Service

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Support

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Thermo Fluids

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Test

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Age groups

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The Elements of SQEP Resource

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Engineering Competency Assessment

  • Engineering split into 21 primary � skills
  • 14 are key to submarines business
  • Each skill managed by Naval Marine � Skill Owner
  • Each individual is assigned to a skill
  • Individuals competency is assessed and � recorded by the Skill Owner

Nuclear Training Requirements Plan

  • Customer defines Nuclear Training� requirements
  • NTRP defines our training plan to � meet these
  • The plan also manages compliance to � the NTRP within the business

Suitably Qualified and Experienced Personnel (SQEP)

Local Management Assessment

  • Local post profiling highlights specific job� requirements over and above NTRP or � Competency Assessments
  • Audit of job holder against post profile

Nuclear Training Committee

  • Review waivers
  • Audit compliance with NTRP

Training Management Process Coordinates:

  • Training requirements from � all sources
  • Maintains training records � from all individuals within the � organisation
  • Delivers and administers � training packages

Career Structure Boardings

  • Identify competencies � required to progress through� the grading structure

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University Technology Centres & Liaison Teams

Solid Mechanics

Oxford

Vibration

Imperial College

Combustion Aerodynamics

Loughborough

University Gas Turbine Partnership (UGTP)

Cambridge (Whittle lab)

Performance

Cranfield

Materials Partnership

Cambridge, Birmingham & Swansea

Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics

Oxford (Osney lab)

Control & Systems Engineering

Sheffield

Aero-thermal Systems

Sussex

Advanced Electrical Networks

Strathclyde

Gas Turbine Transmission Systems

Nottingham

Systems & Software Engineering

York

Materials Damping Technology

Sheffield

Design Partnership (with BAE)

Cambridge, Sheffield & Southampton

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Oxford

Noise

Southampton

Manufacturing Technology

Nottingham

Thermo-fluid Systems

Surrey

RR Submarines University Links

Manchester, Newcastle, Cambridge, Imperial, Bristol, Leeds, Nottingham, Loughborough, Oxford,

Birmingham, Sheffield.

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A Nuclear Future

  • Best approach for a safe Nuclear future is via a strong, well funded UK Nuclear Industry.
  • Nuclear Power has to be viewed as a worldwide activity, its influence is global .
  • Next Generation Plant must be designed for Safety, Regulatory developments should not dominate real Engineering enhancements.
  • Wonderful opportunity for new Engineers across a range of disciplines. This will motivate a New generation of Material Scientists, Engineers,Physicists etc and also ensure safe decommissioning and disposal of our Nuclear legacy.

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1956: Queen switches on nuclear power

     

                                                      

     

    

This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community. �

    

The Queen�

Sir Edwin Plowden, chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority, also stressed the ground-breaking nature of the new power station.

"Nothing that comes after will be able to detract from the importance of this first great step forward," he said.

Her Majesty the Queen gave her speech in the shadow of the massive chimneys of the Windscale plant, where explosives were made for Britain's first atomic bomb, and she gave a timely reminder of the more sinister origins of the technology.

"This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction," she said, "is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community."

At 1216 GMT, she pulled the lever which would direct electricity from the power station into the National Grid for the first time.

A large clock on the wall of the power station registered the first kilowatts of energy to be produced.

The town of Workington, 15 miles (24 km) up the Cumberland coast from Calder Hall, became the first town in the world to receive light, heat and power from nuclear energy.

Within four hours, the first nuclear-powered electricity was reaching London.

The government expects to save about 40 million tons of coal by investing in the new technology, and it is planning to supply about 10% of the country's electricity needs from nuclear power within less than 10 years.

Calder Hall is known as a gas-cooled, graphite-moderated reactor, and uses the nuclear reaction in uranium rods to generate power.

Two other nuclear power stations are already under construction - one alongside the existing Calder Hall plant, to be known as Calder Hall B, and the other at Chapel Cross in Scotland.

A huge clock registered the first power to be transferred to the National Grid

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Key points

  • Dawn of an exciting new Nuclear Generation in Power and Propulsion
  • Need for next generation of UK based Engineers & Material Scientists
  • Separate focus on Engineering Safety and Regulatory Compliance
  • Research in the development of next generation Materials & Systems

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