33rd Annual Conference of the

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Building on Our Past... Building for

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10-13 June 2012

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1

PLENARY I: BUILDING STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT; NUCLEAR IN WESTERN

CANADA

The Future of Electricity in Saskatchewan.......................................................................................................................... 1

Robert Watson
Stakeholder Opportunities through Nuclear Science & Technology............................................................................... 10
Robert Walker
Transformative Engagement .............................................................................................................................................. 17
Gary Merasty

PLENARY II: BUILDING STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT; NUCLEAR IN WESTERN CANADA

Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation Inc.................................................................................................................... 27

John Root
Uranium Mining: Saskatchewan Status ............................................................................................................................ 34
Vincent Martin
Candu Energy Powering a Brighter Future ...................................................................................................................... 44
Kevin Wallace
W.B. Lewis Lecture ............................................................................................................................................................. 54
Laurier Schramm

PHYSICS-1

Monte Carlo Fuel Temperature Reactivity Coefficient Calculations by Adjoint-Weighted Correlated

Sampling Method................................................................................................................................................................. 62
Hyung Jin Shim, Seung Yeol Yoo, Chang Hyo Kim
Validation of Micro-Depletion Method for CANDU® Reactors for the Core-Tracking Simulations .......................... 73
Tao Feng Liang, Wei Shen, Patrick Reid
Calculation and Comparisons with Measurement of Fast Neutron Fluxes in the Material Testing
Facilities of the NRU Research Reactor............................................................................................................................. 90
Timothy Leung
Monte Carlo Calculations of Heat Deposition in Fuel and Non-fuel Materials Irradiated in the
National Research Universal Reactor (NRU) .................................................................................................................. 102
Sinh Nguyen, Bruce Wilkin
Removing Fuelling Transient Using Neutron Absorbers ............................................................................................... 112
Stephane Paquette, Paul Chan, Hugues Bonin, Aniket Pant
Investigation of Deuterium Cross Section Data by Integral Testing: ZED-2 Measurements of High-
Enriched Uranium Fuel Substituted into a Natural Uranium Core.............................................................................. 126
Julian E. Atfield, Ken S. Kozier, Danila Roubtsov, Michael B. Zeller

NWMO PANEL

Process for Selecting a Site for Canada’s Deep Geological Repository for Used Nuclear Fuel................................... 139
J. Facella, M. Ben Belfadhel, P. Patton

SAFETY & LICENSING-1

Hydrogen Mitigation - CNSC Focus and Expectations Following Fukushima............................................................. 140

Samuel Gyepi-Garbrah
EC6 Safety Enhancement - Including impact of Fukushima Lessons Learned............................................................ 150
Stephen Yu, Raidis Zemdegs, Sabina Boyle, Michael Soulard
Nuclear Power Plant Accident Handbook, A CNSC Emergency Operations Centre Tool ......................................... 162
Christopher Cole, Thambiayah Nitheanandan, Morgan J. Brown, Sergei M. Petoukhov, Alastair Wood
Design Requirements for New Nuclear Reactor Facilities in Canada ........................................................................... 172
Sang Shim, Myeong Ohn, Christopher Harwood
An Analytic Study on LBLOCA for CANDU Type Reactor Using MARS-KS/CANDU............................................. 185
Jin-Hyuck Kim, Joo-Sung Kim, Kwang-Won Seul, Chae-Yong Yang
The Optimization of Generic CANDU SAMG after Fukushima Accident ................................................................... 197
Chun Zeng

LIFE EXTENSION

IAEA CRP on the Prediction of Axial and Radial Creep in HWR Pressure Tubes.................................................... N/A
Jong Ho Choi
Overview and Lessons from More than a Decade of Feeder Life Management........................................................... 205
Aman Usmani, Zane Walker, Andy Meysner
Feeder Bend Testing Project – A Decade in Review ....................................................................................................... 217
Xinjian Duan, Michael Kozluk, Christine Regan, Brian Mills
An Approach Regarding Aging Management Program for Concrete Containment Structure at the
Gentilly-2 Nuclear Power Plant........................................................................................................................................ 234
Jean-Olivier Chenier, Dragan Komljenovic, Vladimir Gocevski, Sylvain Picard, Guy Chrétien
Value Addition Initiatives for CANDU Reactor Operation Performance .................................................................... 260
Vinod Chugh, Ranbir Parmar, Jim Schut, James Sherin, Hong Xie, David Zobin

FUSION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-1

Shock Ignition – A New Route Towards Laser Fusion Energy...................................................................................... 273

Robert Fedosejevs, Ying Tsui
Progress Towards Acoustic Magnetized Target Fusion: An Overview of the R&D Program at General
Fusion ................................................................................................................................................................................. 285
Michael Delage, Aaron Froese, Dan Blondal, Doug Richardson
On Korean Strategy and Plan for Fusion Energy........................................................................................................... 298
Hyuck Jong Kim, Won-Jae Choi, Changwoo Park, Hyung Chan Kim
Recent Experiments on the STOR-M Tokamak ............................................................................................................. 310
C. Xiao, Takumi Onchi, Yelu Liu, S. Elgriw, Mycola Dreval, David McColl, Tomohiko Asai, Akira Hirose
A Description of the Tritium Facility at the Chalk River Laboratories........................................................................ 322
Lakshman Rodrigo, Kevin McCrimmon, Andrew Tripple, Natalie Philippi

WFS - EDUCATION

Nuclear North of 60: Total Energy Supply for Remote Human Habitations ............................................................... 333
Jay Harris
Distributed Generation in Small Remote Northern Communities ................................................................................ 364
David Malcolm
A Conversational Approach to Teaching About Nuclear Power ................................................................................... 374
Jason Donev, Yuen-Ying Carpenter
Teaching Nuclear Energy: The Challenges of Interdisciplinarity in the Classroom.................................................... 381
Brett McCollum, Duane Bratt
Slowpoke-2 31 Years and Still Glowing ........................................................................................................................... 393
Brenda Stanek
Public Involvement in Adaptive Phased Management of Nuclear Waste Facilities ..................................................... 405
Denise Chartrand, Jason Donev

PHYSICS-2

Validation of KENO V.a Using ENDF/B-VI and ENDF/B-VII for Criticality Safety Applications ........................... 410
Ruxandra Dranga, Eugene Masala
A Method for Simulating Real-Time Neutron Populations, Materials and Geometries Using the
GEANT4 Monte Carlo Toolkit ......................................................................................................................................... 422
Liam Russell, Guy Jonkmans, Adriaan Buijs
CANDU Lattice Uncertainties During Burnup ............................................................................................................... 430
Matthew R. Ball, David R. Novog, John C. Luxat
The Effects of Fuel Burnup on Incremental Cross Sections in Actinide Fuels in CANDU Reactors.......................... 449
Andrew C. Morreale, Matthew R. Ball, David R. Novog, John C. Luxat

SAFETY & LICENSING-2

Severe Accident Analysis of a Station Blackout Accident Using Maapcandu for the Point Lepreau
Station Refurbishment Project Level 2 PSA ................................................................................................................... 465
Morgan J. Brown, Sergei M. Petoukhov
Severe Accident Analysis of a Small LOCA Accident Using MAAP-Candu to Support Level 2 PSA for
the Point Lepreau Station Refurbishment Project.......................................................................................................... 488
Sergei M. Petoukhov, Morgan J. Brown, P. M Mathew
Spent Fuel Response after a Postulated Loss of Spent Fuel Bay Cooling Accident...................................................... 511
Hazen Hezhi Fan, Ron Aboud, Ed Choy, Wenjie Zhu, Hui Liu
CSA Standards Nuclear Program .................................................................................................................................... 523
Juris Grava, Mary Cianchetti, Susan Oh

FUSION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-2

Recent Status of the Experiments in the KSTAR Superconducting Tokamak Device ................................................ 533
Yeong-Kook Oh, W. C. Kim, S. G. Lee, J. Y. Kim, W. H. Ko, S. H. Hahn, J. Kim, Y. M. Jeon, S. W. Yoon, W. W.
Xiao, H. L. Yang, H. K. Kim, Y. S. Bae, K. R. Park, Y. Chu, J. G. Kwak, M. Kwon
Fuelling Effect of Tangential Compact Toroid Injection in STOR-M Tokamak ......................................................... 548
Takumi Onchi, Yelu Liu, Mycola Dreval, David McColl, Tomohiko Asai, Sean Wolfe, Chijin Xiao, Akira Hirose
A Study on the Gaps and Pathways to a Fusion DEMO ................................................................................................ 557
Hyuck Jong Kim, Won-Jae Choi, Changwoo Park, Hyung Chan Kim

WFS – SMALL REACTORS

The Radix Mini--Modular Reactors For Energy Supply ............................................................................................... 567

Paul Farrell, Phillip Moor
A CANDU-Type Small/Medium Power Reactor............................................................................................................. 574
Daniel Meneley
The Smallest SMRs............................................................................................................................................................ 588
Ken S. Kozier, David Sears
Molten Salt Reactors and the Oil Sands: Odd Couple or Key to North American Energy
Independence? ................................................................................................................................................................... 604
D Leblanc
Reactor Technology Selections for Remote Sites ............................................................................................................ 626
David Carlson

FUEL & ADVANCED REACTORS

Physics Optimization of the Canadian SCWR Core: Device-Free Reduction of Core Power Peaking
Factors ................................................................................................................................................................................ 635
Jeremy Pencer, Nihan Onder
Heat Transfer Study on Supercritical CO2 Flow in Vertical Tube................................................................................ 649
Sahil Gupta, Prabu Surendran, Igor Pioro
Uncertainties of Reactivity Calculations with Respect to Nuclear Data for the Canadian SCWR ............................. 662
Laura Blomeley, Jeremy Pencer
Used CANDU Fuel Waste Consumed and Eliminated: Environmentally Responsible, Economically
Sound, Energetically Enormous ....................................................................................................................................... 676
Peter Ottensmeyer
Development of the FAST Code for Modeling CANDU Fuel......................................................................................... 688
Andrew Prudil, Brent Lewis, Paul Chan
R&D Project of Small-to-Medium Reactor for Multipurpose Use of Energy .............................................................. 700
Tomohiko Ikegawa, Koji Nishida, Masayoshi Matsuura, Kumiaki Moriya
REACTOR MATERIALS

Properties of Recycled Fuels; Density Functional Theory Study................................................................................... 712

Barbara Szpunar, Jerzy A. Szpunar
Roles of Intergranular Delta-Hydrides in the Failure of Hydrided Zr Alloys.............................................................. 725
Wen Qin, Jerzy A. Szpunar
Effect of Surface Roughness on the Oxidation and Hydriding Behaviour of Zircaloy-4............................................. 731
Hamed Akhiani, Jerzy A. Szpunar
A Review of Candidate Ceramic Materials for Use as Heat Shield Tiles in a Supercritical-Water-
Cooled-Reactor .................................................................................................................................................................. 741
Peter McClure, Blaine Geddes, Xiao Huang, David Guzonas
Effects of Grain Size and Specimen Size on Small Punch Test of Type 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel.................... 753
Ming Song, Qin Wen, Jerzy A. Szpunar, Kaishu Guan
Microstructural Evaluation of Stressed IN625 and NiCrAlY Coated IN625 Tested in High and Low
Density SCW ...................................................................................................................................................................... 764
Austin Selvig, Xiao Huang, David Guzonas
Evaluation of Oxides Formed at High Temperature in Zr-2.5Nb Pressure Tubing .................................................... 776
A. P. Kiran Kumar Nimishakavi, Jerzy A. Szpunar

URANIUM MINING

Draft CSA Standard on Environmental Risk Assessments at Class 1 Nuclear Facilities and Uranium
Mines and Mills.................................................................................................................................................................. 789
Donald Hart, Nava Garisto, Rina Parker, Ryan Kovacs, Brett Thompson
Radiation Protection as Part of a Uranium Mine Pre-Feasibility Study....................................................................... 801
Ernest Becker, Aslam Ibrahim
Water Quality Benchmarks, the Modifying Effect of Organic Matter on Uranium Toxicity and Why
This Matters ....................................................................................................................................................................... 812
Peter Chapman, Melanie Trenfield, Rick Van Dam

OPEX & MAINTENANCE-1

Resolving the Concerns About the Dynamic Responses of Candu In-core Flux Detectors ......................................... 818
Jerry Cuttler, Harmeet Gill, Richard Scrannage, Philippe Paquette

VOLUME 2

Accelerating ROP Detector Layout Optimization .......................................................................................................... 826

Doddy Kastanya, Barbu Fodor
Confirming Competence of Operators - A Regulatory Approach to Fuel Cycle Facilities.......................................... 840
Martin Vesely, Justin Sigetich
AREVA's Innovative Solutions for Valve Diagnostics and In-Situ Valve Repair ........................................................ 851
Holger Damies, Reinald Agethen, Louisa Munoz, Frank Kostroun

WFS – SAFETY & LICENSING

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - Readiness to Regulate SMRs in Canada....................................................... 862

Barclay D. Howden
Introducing Small Modular Reactors Into Canada ........................................................................................................ 872
J. R. Humphries
Fuel Choice, Nuclear Energy, Climate and Carbon........................................................................................................ 889
Al Shpyth
What is the Appropriate Radiation Level for Evacuations? .......................................................................................... 896
Jerry Cuttler
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Nuclear Regulatory Developments in Canada................................................................................................................. 909

Michael Binder

PLENARY III: SMALL MODULAR REACTORS

Overview of NuScale Technology ..................................................................................................................................... 918

Dan Ingersoll
B & W mPower .................................................................................................................................................................. 925
Chris Deir
Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor Design and Application .................................................................................... 934
Ryan Blinn

PLENARY IV: BUILDING ON OUR PAST...BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

Isotopes in Canadian Medicine: The First Century........................................................................................................ 941

Al Driedger
Overview on Recent Developments: Alternative Isotope Production Methods in Canada.......................................... 952
Karen Huynh
Medical Isotopes – New Delivery Systems ....................................................................................................................... 959
Steve West
Isotope Production Technologies from a Regulatory Perspective ................................................................................. 966
Kavita Murthy

PLENARY V: NUCLEAR INDUSTRY POWER DEVELOPMENTS: THE RENAISSANCE

Nuclear Cluster Concept Carolinas - Ontario - Saskatchewan...................................................................................... 976

Ron Oberth
Solutions for Nuclear & Renewable Power Generation ................................................................................................. 985
Jarret Adams
AP1000® – Update on Projects in US and China............................................................................................................ 993
Mike Godfrey
Challenges New Entrant Countries Face in Establishing a Nuclear Program............................................................ 1004
Jay Brister

PLENARY VI: PANEL DISCUSSION

Darlington Nuclear Refurbishment Program................................................................................................................ 1015

Mark Arnone
Énergy NB Power ............................................................................................................................................................ 1021
Rod Eagles
Embalse Life Extension Project...................................................................................................................................... 1036
Bill Pilkington

PLENARY VII: HISTORY OF CANDU

NRX to Pickering............................................................................................................................................................. 1045

Lorne McConnell
AECL – 60 Years of Contributing to Canada ............................................................................................................... 1054
Jeremy Whitlock

I & C PROCESS

Approach Adopted by RPC Radiy for the Verification and Validation of FPGA Based Platforms for
Nuclear Safety Applications............................................................................................................................................ 1067
Vladimir Sklyar, Sergio Russomanno
HITACHI Security Concept for Industrial Control Systems....................................................................................... 1082
Hiromichi Endoh, Tsutomu Yamada, Satoshi Okubo, Toshihiko Nakano
DCS Innovation by SIL and Non-SIL Unified Architecture - Hitachi Approach on GHIACS
(R800FS/R900) ................................................................................................................................................................. 1092
Toshiki Shimizu, Yu Horikoshi, Yusaku Otsuka, Masashi Suenaga, Sunao Masunaga
A Simple Estimate of Production of Medical isotopes by Photo-neutron Reaction at the Canadian
Light Source ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1103
Barbara Szpunar, Chary Rangacharyulu, Schin Date, Hiro Ejiri

OPEX & MAINTENANCE-2

Integration of CATHENA Thermal-hydraulic Model with CANDU 6 Analytical Simulator Controller ................ 1114
Majid Borairi, Hooman Javidnia, Dave Wallace, Joe Tseng, Vincent Lau, Florentin Caracas
Steam Generator Cleanliness Management A Comprehensive Concept for CANDU Plants.................................... 1122
Christoph Stiepani, Steffen Weiss, Georg Kraemer, Andreas Drexler, Joerg Fandrich
Implementation of Genetic Algorithm Technique for Solving ROP Detector Layout Optimization
Problem ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1134
Doddy Kastanya, Barbu Fodor
7th CNS Int’l ‘Steam Generators to Controls’ Conference – A Realization of the Objectives of the
DM+OM Alignment-Initiative........................................................................................................................................ 1145
W. Schneider
A Quick Acting Device for Arresting Incidental Gross Leakage of Heavy Water during In-Service
Inspection of Coolant Channels...................................................................................................................................... 1155
Amit Kumar Haruray, Manojit Bandyopadhyay, R. K. Puri, Manjit Singh

THERMALHYDRAULICS

Comparison between Surface Heating and Volumetric Heating Methods inside CANDU Reactor
Moderator Test Facility (MTF) Using 3D Numerical Simulation................................................................................ 1169
Araz Sarchami, Nasser Ashgriz, Marc Kwee
Experimental Investigation of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux on a Downward
Facing Surface.................................................................................................................................................................. 1180
Marko Gocmanac, John C. Luxat
Critical Heat Flux Variations on Surface of a CANDU Calandria Tube .................................................................... 1193
Azin Behdadi, John C. Luxat
Preliminary Results for Validation of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Prediction of Flow through
a Split Vane Spacer Grid ................................................................................................................................................ 1202
A. Rashkovan, D. R. Novog
Compilation of Supercritical Heat Transfer Data Through the IAEA Cooperative Research Program ................. 1214
Laurence Leung, K. Yamada

ENVIRONMENT & WASTE MANAGEMENT

Moble Tritium Removal Facility - An Affordable Option?.......................................................................................... 1226

Peter Ozemoyah, John Robinson
Testing and Monitoring of Radiologicals in Drinking Water....................................................................................... 1236
Brenda Stanek, Wo Yuen, Dave Chorney
Administrative Limits for Tritium Concentrations Found in Non-Potable Groundwater at Nuclear
Power Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................ 1244
Rina Parker, Donald Hart, Cecile Willert
Importance of the Aquatic Detritus Foodweb in the Transfer of Radionuclides from Water to Higher
Trophic Levels.................................................................................................................................................................. 1256
Glen Bird
Advanced Technologies for Radioactive Waste Characterization and Free Release Measurement......................... 1268
Anton Vetrov, Petr Sladek, Valeriya Verbitskaya, C. Allison
SPECIAL TOPICS OF INTEREST

Evolution of RFSP 3.5 for CANDU Analysis................................................................................................................. 1277

Wei Shen, P. Schwanke
Toward Developing a Next Generation Computer Code for Fuel Analysis................................................................ 1289
Ki-Seob Sim, George S. Xu, Gong Chen, Girma G. Chassie, Masoud Shams
Large Break LOCA Uncertainty Quantification for Boiling Natural Circulation Reactor using Latin
Hypercube Sampling ....................................................................................................................................................... 1300
A. K. Trivedi, A. Srivastava, H. G. Lele, Ashok Khanna, Prabhat Munshi
Fukushima Type Severe Accident Analysis of Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant using
RELAP5/SCDAPSIM...................................................................................................................................................... 1312
A. K. Trivedi, Ashok Khanna, Prabhat Munshi, C Allison

STUDENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Experimental and Simulation Study of the Response of a Boron-Loaded Plastic Scintillator to

Neutrons and Gamma-rays............................................................................................................................................. 1324
Nafisah Khan, Rachid Machrafi
Requirements for Extending the FAST Code for Transient Simulation of Nuclear Fuel.......................................... 1330
Andrew Prudil, Brent Lewis, Paul Chan
The Dissolution Rate Constant of Magnetite in Water at Different Temperatures and Neutral or
Ammoniated Chemistry Conditions............................................................................................................................... 1335
Khatereh Mohajery, Derek Lister
A Comparison of the Passive Oxide Films Formed on CANDU Steam Generator Tubing Alloy 600
and Alloy 800.................................................................................................................................................................... 1340
Melissa Faichuk, Sridhar Ramamurthy, Jamie Noël, Leo Lau, Dave Shoesmith
Microelectrochemical and Corrosion Behaviour of Metal Alloy Waste Forms.......................................................... 1346
Robert Matthew Asmussen, David W. Shoesmith
Uranium Mining and Milling Waste Management in Northern Saskatchewan ......................................................... 1352
Sarah Thompson, Meghan Walsh, Stephen Gordon, Kyle Colburn, Jason Donev
A Preliminary Study on H2O2 Reactions on SIMFUEL with Different Doping Elements......................................... 1357
Linda Wu, David W. Shoesmith
Modelling Material Effects on Flow-Accelerated Corrosion in Primary CANDU Coolant and
Secondary Reactor Feed-Water...................................................................................................................................... 1363
Pimsiree Phromwong, Derek Lister, Shunsuke Uchida
An Ab Initio Study of Hydrated Nickel(II) Hydroxy Complexes ................................................................................ 1368
Liwei Cheng, Jane Ferguson, Cory Pye
The Effects of Fuel Burnup on Incremental Cross Sections in Actinide Fuels in CANDU Reactors........................ 1374
Andrew C. Morreale, Matthew R. Ball, David R. Novog, John C. Luxat
A Controllability Study of TRUMOX Fuel for Load Following Operations in a CANDU-900 Reactor .................. 1381
David Trudell
CANDU Fuel Attribution Through the Analysis of Delayed Neutron Temporal Behaviour .................................... 1386
Madison Sellers, Emily Corcoran, David Kelly
Analysis of the Impact of Coolant Density Variations in the High Efficiency Channel of a Pressure
Tube Super Critical Water Reactor ............................................................................................................................... 1392
Michael Scriven, David Hummel, David Novog, John Luxat
The Influence of Gd2O3 Doping on the Electrochemical Reactivity of Uranium Dioxide (UO2)............................. 1398
Mayuri Razdan, David Shoesmith
Nanofluid Pool Boiling: A Review and Experimental Design ...................................................................................... 1403
James Strack
The Influences of Ultrasonic Peening Treatment on Oxidation of Designed F/M Steels in Supercritical
Water ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1408
Zhe Liu, Jingli Luo, Weixing Chen, Ming Li, Wenyue Zheng, David Guzonas
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Zirconium and Zirconium Hydride.................................................................... 1414
Ravi Kiran Siripurapu, Barbara Szpunar, Jerzy Szpunar
Turbulent Velocity Measurement of Rectangular Sub-channel Mixing Using Laser Doppler
Velocimetry ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1420
Fabricia Pineiro, Ken Leung
Monte Carlo Simulation of a Burnup-Averaged 78-Element Canadian SCWR and Similarity Study
with the ZED-2 Test Reactor .......................................................................................................................................... 1425
Stephanie Elaine Langton, Adriaan Buijs, Ting Zhu, David Novog
Fuel Composition Optimization in a 78-Element Fuel Bundle for use in a Pressure Tube Type
Supercritical Water-Cooled Reactor.............................................................................................................................. 1430
David Hummel, David Novog
Potential Resistance of Alloy 82 Dissimilar Metal Welds to Primary Water Stress Corrosion Cracking ................ 1435
Suraj Persaud, Roger Newman
Photon Mass Attenuation Coefficients of Importance to Dosimetry ........................................................................... 1441
Cody Crewson, Chary Rangacharyulu
Computational Tabulation of the Spatial Origin of Scoring Secondary Electron Tracks in a Wall-less
Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter under Photon Irradiation ........................................................................... 1446
Fawaz Ali, Anthony Waker, Ed Waller
A Method for Simulating Real-Time Neutron Populations, Materials and Geometries Using the
GEANT4 Monte Carlo Toolkit ....................................................................................................................................... 1451
Liam Russell, Guy Jonkmans, Adriaan Buijs
Material Properties of a Dissimilar Metal Weld Inconel 600/ Inconel 82 Weld Filler/ Carbon Steel
(Gr. 106 B)........................................................................................................................................................................ 1457
Steven Knapp, Xinjian Duan, Arnaud Weck
Heat Transfer Study on Supercritical CO2 Flow in Vertical Tube ............................................................................. 1462
Sahil Gupta, Prabu Surendran, Igor Pioro
Tritium and Impurity Removal from a Liquid Pb-Li Blanket .................................................................................... 1467
Rabi Yari, Peter Schwanke, Matthew Kaye
Optimization of Radio-Opaque Personal Protective Fabric by Monte Carlo Simulation ......................................... 1472
Michael Roeterink, Felix Lavoie, Eva Dickson, Emily Corcoran
Design of the GLARE: Grease Lubrication Apparatus for Research and Education ............................................... 1477
Bradley Rawlings
Evaluation of Stress Corrosion Cracking of 316L Stainless Steel in Supercritical Water Using
Constant-load C-ring Samples........................................................................................................................................ 1483
Bryce Raoul, William Cook
Improving the Useful Life of a 37-element Fuel Bundle ............................................................................................... 1488
Corey French, Paul Chan, Stéphane Paquette, Jordan Morelli, Madison Sellers
An Investigation of Electrostatically Deposited Radionuclides on Latex Balloons .................................................... 1494
Terry Price, Adam Caly
Removing Fuelling Transient Using Neutron Absorbers ............................................................................................. 1499
Stephane Paquette, Paul Chan, Hugues Bonin, Aniket Pant
Sensitivity Analysis of CFD Code Fluent-12 for Supercritical Water in Vertical Bare Tubes.................................. 1505
Amjad Farah, Patrick Haines, Glenn Harvel, Igor Pioro
Neutron Production in a Spherical Phantom Aboard ISS............................................................................................ 1511
Azadeh Tasbaz, Rachid Machrafi
Development of a Transparent and Deformable Two Dimensional Radiochromic Gel Dosimeter .......................... 1517
Pouria Ataei, Kevin Diamond
SLOWPOKE-2 Gamma Dose Experiment.................................................................................................................... 1523
Emilia Pruszkowski, Colin Bruulsema
Stainless Steel 316 Corrosion Testing at Sub- and Supercritical Water Conditions: An Insight Into the
pH Effect .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1529
Ruth A. Carvajal-Ortiz, Igor M. Svishchev, David Guzonas
Variable Axial Power Profile Heat-loss Analysis of a CO2 Gas Insulated Re-entrant SCWR Fuel-
channel.............................................................................................................................................................................. 1534
Jeffrey Samuel, Glenn Harvel, Igor Pioro
Dynamics and Structure of Iron Hydroxide in High Temperature and Supercritical Water ................................... 1540
Yuan Liang Meng, Igor M. Svishchev
The Effect of Testing Direction on DHC Growth Rate Using a Zr-2.5Nb Plate......................................................... 1545
Sean Hanlon, Scott Read, Alain Douchant, Mona Primeau, Ken Kidd, Patrick Wilson, Glenn McRae, Christopher
Coleman
Characterization of Excel Alloy Pressure Tube Material for CANDU SCW Reactors ............................................. 1550
Mohammad Sattari, Richard Holt, Mark Daymond
Heavy Ion Irradiation Effects in Zr Excel Alloy Pressure Tube Material .................................................................. 1555
Y Idrees, Z Yao, M Sattari, M. R Daymond
Production of Molybdenum-99 by Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Uranium Fueled Reactors ........................... 1561
George Carlin, Hugues Bonin
Progress on the Development of a Look-up Table for Trans-critical Heat Transfer in Water-cooled
Heated Tubes ................................................................................................................................................................... 1567
Hussam Zahlan, De Groeneveld, Stavros Tavoularis
Assessment of Uncertainty in Depletion Calculations using Statistical Sampling Methods ...................................... 1573
Curtis McEwan
Effects of Grain Size and CeO2 Addition on the Corrosion Behaviour of Cr2O3 based Ceramics in
High Temperature Supercritical Water Environment ................................................................................................. 1576
Renfei Wang, Ziqiang Dong, Wenyue Zheng, Dave Guzonas, Jingli Luo, Weixing Chen
Temperature Dependence of Radiation-Induced Corrosion of Stellite-6 at pH 10.6 ................................................. 1581
Mehran Behazin, J. Jamie Noël, J. Clara Wren
Electrochemical and Surface Study of the Oxide Growth and Conversion on 316l Stainless Steel .......................... 1586
Quintin Knapp, Jungsook Clara Wren
Effect of Phosphonium-based Ionic Liquids on the Corrosion of Carbon Steel under Gamma
Radiation .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1591
Ryan Morco, Jiju Joseph, Ahmed Musa, J. Clara Wren
The Effect of Initial Iron Concentration and pH on the Radiolytic Formation of γ-FeOOH.................................... 1596
Thomas Sutherland, Pam Yakabuskie, Clara Wren
Commissioning Tests of the University of Ottawa Supercritical CO2 Facility ........................................................... 1600
Kai Jiang, Hussam Zahlan, Stavros Tavoularis, De Groeneveld
Oxidation and Stress Corrosion Cracking Initiation of Austenitic Alloys in Supercritical Water ........................... 1606
Yashar Behnamian, Ming Li, Jing-Li Luo, Weixing Chen, Wenyue Zheng, David Guzonas
Density Dependence of the Spur Lifetime and the "Escape" Hydrated Electron Yield in the Low-let
Radiolysis of Supercritical Water at 400°c .................................................................................................................... 1612
Sunuchakan Sanguanmith, Jintana Meesungnoen, Jean-Paul Jay-Gerin

ADDITIONAL PAPERS

Saskatchewan Update...................................................................................................................................................... 1617

N/A
A Comparative Study of Some Spatial-Temporal Discretization Schemes for Nonlinear
Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation of Plasmas............................................................................................................. 1622
D. Nath, M. S. Kalra
Uranium - From Exploration to the Final Product....................................................................................................... 1635
Kathy Pourtangestani
For Fusion Research Collaborations between Korea and Canada .............................................................................. 1649
Hyuck Jong Kim
WiN - Saskatchewan Launch June 2012........................................................................................................................ 1655
Cheryl Cottrill
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