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Presentation of the INSPYRE project Marjorie Bertolus CEA, DEN, DEC, Centre de Cadarache JPNM Infoda days ys, , Bruss ussels els, , December r 4-5, 2019

The Project and the European Context

INSPYRE: Investigations Supporting MOX Fuel Licensing in ESNII Prototype Reactors Answer to section 5 of H2020 Euratom call for 2016-2017: Materials research for Generation-IV reactors Under the auspices of the Joint Programme of Nuclear Materials (JPNM) of the European Energy Research Alliance Aim of project: harness basic and applied science to • Make the motto “Better data in better codes for better predictive performance” a reality • Bring significant advances to the licensing of MOX fuel, first cores of ESNII reactors by solving operational and safety issues Total budget: 9.37 M€; European contribution: 4.00 M€ Start: September 1 st , 2017 Duration: 4 years JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 3

INSPYRE Strategic Objectives and Approach Make major breakthrough in understanding and describing fast reactor MOX behaviour under irradiation by coupling • PIE results on neutron-irradiated fuel from past campaigns • Separate effect experiments • Multiscale and thermodynamic modelling Advance predictive capabilities of fast reactor fuel performance codes by • Transferring knowledge acquired from basic and technological research into operational tools • Bringing together experts from various areas of expertise Transfer results and approach of the project to users, develop training to prepare next generation of researchers and initiate or participate in outreach activities to improve public acceptance of next reactor generation JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 4

INSPYRE Rationale and Organisation + 3 support WP WP8: Education and training WP9: Communication, dissemination and exploitation of results WP10: Project management Fuels studied Fast Reactor MOX fuel Definition of needs (U,Pu)O 2 , pure or with a few % Am Transfer of data A few studies on UO 2 JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 5

Participants All partners of EERA JPNM fuel subprogrammes except Imperial College + project management SME Nuclear organizations: CEA/DEN (France), JRC (European Commission), ENEA (Italy), NNL (UK), NRG (The Netherlands), PSI (Switzerland), SCK.CEN (Belgium) Industrials: EDF (France) Academic organizations: CNRS (France), Aalto (Finland), KTH (Sweden), Polimi (Italy), TU Delft (The Netherlands) SME: LGI (France) 8 count ntries es + JRC JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 6

Links to other H2020 projects and European initiatives JPNM Nuclear materials Separation, Fuel pin, retreatment MOX ESFR-SMART Structural materials (vessel, internals) ESNII FR prototypes Ultimate waste 7 JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019

Achievements of the First 24 Months

Laying the foundations and first successes of INSPYRE Analysis of available data and models and identification of gaps Assessment of current versions of fuel performance codes on previous irradiation experiments First-of-a-kind calculations at the Development of new First detailed characterizations of atomic scale of thermodynamic experimental set-ups fresh uranium-plutonium oxide properties, defect behaviour and enabling characterization of samples and of fission products fission gas incorporation in (U,Pu)O 2 Pu and Am bearing oxides in compounds for the understanding and impact of primary damage on hot labs of several partners: of JOG mechanical properties Electrical conductivity device; Significant progress in the Development of improved thermo- positron annihilation lifetime preparation of the experiments dynamic model for (U-Pu-Am-O) spectrometer; compression planned for the measurement of test with O content control; creep under irradiation in the At the microscale, development of High temperature Raman CNRS cyclotron in Orléans and the physics-based models describing spectrometer; laser heating High Flux Reactor in Petten. inert gas behaviour, thermal and devices Experiments will start early 2020 mechanical evolution JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 9

Dissemination and Communication Dissemina seminatio tion n of results ts 12 peer-reviewed articles submitted to journals 50 abstracts submitted for communications at conferences or workshops 4 PhDs defended Commu mmuni nicat cation ion Website online since 09/2017: http://www.eera- jpnm.eu/inspyre, refurbished in first trimester 2019 (includes collaborative platform for participants) First newsletter distributed in December 2018 Exhibition for the general public on the theme “Simulation to guarantee the safety of nuclear fuels in reactor” prepared and presented at 60 th birthday of CEA Cadarache centre JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 10

The three pillars of INSPYRE Education & Training activities Organisation of 2 summer Organization or co-organization Involvement of 20 PhDs and schools to disseminate results of 2 workshops to disseminate Post-Docs in the technical and approach of INSPYRE toward results and approach of activities of the project young researchers and train next INSPYRE to nuclear materials Implementation of a mobility generation research community and users scheme: support of travel & • May 2019: Nuclear fuel cycle • Co-organisation and financial accommodation costs to foster in collaboration with GENIORS support to MMSNF-Nufuel mobility of researchers between 2019, PSI, Switzerland • November 2020: Multiscale partner institutes of the project modelling and characterization • Organisation of final project and give access to facilities or of nuclear materials with other workshop in June-July 2021 in expertise JPNM projects Aix-en-Provence JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 11

User Group Cust stome omers s of the project ect: : designers of ESNII reactor concepts, future fuel manufacturers, operators and TSOs that will license them Organi nisati sation on Who ESNII Peter Baeten, SCK.CEN ASTRI RID D / SFR Nicolas Devictor  Jean-Claude Garnier, CEA developme elopment nt programm ramme MYRRHA RRHA Hamid Aït Abderrahim, Marc Schyns, SCK.CEN ALFRED ED Alessandro Alemberti, Ansaldo Nucleare FALCON ON Consor sorti tium Giacomo Grassi, ENEA Akos Horvath, Zolter Holtan, ALLEGRO MTA center for Energy research EDF Eric Molinié , Frédéric Laugier, EDF ORANO Dominique Favet, Véronique Garat, MELOX JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 12

Interaction with the User Group Meetings etings planne ned: d: 2 general eral meetings etings on INSPY PYRE RE results ts + 3 focused cused ones Invit itat ation on to final al workshop hop of INSPY PYRE RE First t meet etin ing g of the User er Group (MS24) • Organised on August 28 th in Paris 6 users: Astrid / SFR development programme, Myrrha, Allegro, EDF, ORAN0 • 5 INSPYRE representatives: coordinator + 3 WPL + PMO  Strong support of users for INSPYRE approach and very constructive exchanges D9.4 4 publishe ished d in August ust 2019 • Synthesis of exchanges during the first meeting • List of subjects for next meetings Next t meet etin ing: g: January 2020 Topic: preliminary results of the assessment of FPC on irradiation experiments and definition of the relevant case studies representative of ESNII reactor conditions to be used for further assessment JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 13

Conclusion

Conclusions Very ambitious objectives Challenging studies on challenging materials Common work between a lot of researchers with different areas of expertise: exchanges will bring a lot to the research community After 24 months, activities are mostly progressing according to plan: foundations are laid and results are being obtained Delays and difficulties correlated with ambition and complexity of tasks planned JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019 15

Thank you for your attention INSPYRE has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement No 754329. This project is part of the research activities portfolio of the Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials.

How did we get here: Timeline of European basic research on fuels Start of 5 Pilot Fuel research projects on fuels INSPYRE included in Labelling of accepted FP7 project JPNM starts INSPYRE proposal 2008-2012 December 2012 March-June 2016 March 2017 September 2017 17 JPNM Infodays, Brussels, December 4-5, 2019