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INPRO Dialogue Forum on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, April 13-15, 2016, IAEA’s Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

Members + observer:

GIF Education and Training Task ForceK. Mikityuk (PSI, Switzerland)

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Alekseev, Pavel Mpoza, Nolitha

Fazio, Concetta Nam, Youngmi

Fratoni, Massimiliano Paviet, Patricia

Hwang, Il Soon Renault, Claude

Liu, Xiaojing Sun, Jun

Mihara, Takatsugu

Mikityuk, Konstantin Brady, Daniel (observer)


Brief presentation of the members

The Term of Reference (2015-2018)

Social network

Series of Gen-IV webinars

MOOC – first ideas

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Outline


Pavel Alekseev, PhD

Deputy Head of the Kurchatov Nuclear -Technological Complex,

NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia.

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Concetta Fazio, PhD

Education and Training project at JRC-ITU,

Karlsruhe, Germany

Massimiliano Fratoni, PhD

Assistant Professor at the University of California Berkeley,

USA


INPRO Dialogue Forum on Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems, April 13-15, 2016, IAEA’s Headquarters, Vienna, Austria4

Takatsugu Mihara, PhD

Principal Engineer, Fast Reactor Cycle System Design and

Standard Development Office, Advanced Fast Reactor

Cycle System Research and Development Center,

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan


Il Soon Hwang, PhD

Professor and Director of Nuclear Transmutation Energy

Research Center of Korea (NUTRECK), Seoul National

University, Seoul, Korea

Xiaojing Liu, PhD

Associate Professor, School of Nuclear Science and Eng

ineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China


Konstantin Mikityuk, PhD (Co-chair of GIF-ETTF)

Fast Reactors Group Leader at Paul Scherrer Institut,

Villigen PSI, Switzerland.

Nolitha Mpoza, PhD

Deputy Director: Nuclear Technology, South Africa


Youngmi Nam, PhD

Director of Nuclear Training & Education Center at Korea

Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Daejeon, Korea


Patricia Paviet, PhD (Chair of GIF ETTF)

Director of the Office of Systems Engineering & Integration at

the U.S. Department of Energy, in the Office of Nuclear

Energy, Washington, DC, USA

Claude Renault, PhD

Deputy Head, E&T Programs on Nuclear Sciences and

Energy, CEA/INSTN, France


Jun Sun, PhD

Associate Professor at INET, Tsinghua University

Beijing City, China


The GIF-ETTF will serve as a platform to enhance open education and training (E&T)

as well as communication and networking of people and organizations in support of GIF.

The Task Force will work to reach the following objectives:

― Identify the stakeholder groups and assess their needs for Generation IV E&T.

― Create and maintain a social medium platform to exchange information and ideas

on general Generation IV Research and Development (R&D) topics as well as

related GIF E&T activities.

― Structure and disseminate open E&T materials using social media, the GIF website

and other platforms.

― Reach out to the stakeholder groups by developing a comprehensive downloadable

brochure describing the GIF-ETTF initiatives.

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Terms of Reference (ToR) for GIF-ETTF:

Objectives


― Develop and launch prototype webinar series on one or more Generation IV

systems and/or on the cross-cutting methodologies.

― Propose, organize and/or support open Generation IV E&T seminars, e.g. at the

triennial GIF Symposium.

― Evaluate the need for developing Massive Open Online Courses on Generation IV

systems and assess necessary resources (if applicable). Make a recommendation to

the GIF Experts Group

― Evaluate the need for developing a regular Summer/Winter School on Generation

IV systems and assess necessary resources (if applicable). Make a recommendation

to the GIF Experts Group.

― At the end of the Task Force period assess the need of creating a standing Working

Group of Education and Training within GIF. Make a recommendation to the GIF

Policy Group (final objective). 8

Terms of Reference (ToR) for GIF-ETTF:

Objectives


LinkedIn group of Generation-IV Education and Training Task Force was created on October 06, 2015. https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8416234

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Social network


A series of Generation-IV webinars is currently organized

− based on the large experience of Patricia Paviet (DOE) and her team on organizing

and conducting the radiochemistry webinars; use the same platform and support;

− 1 h online lecture on one GIF system or cross-cutting topic from top-level experts;

− frequency of approximately once a month;

− launch in about 6 months;

− total duration is about 1 year.

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Lecturers are currently identified in consultations with GIF systems steering committees.

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Tentative title Lecturer

1. Atoms for peace - The next generation Dr. John Kelly, DOE

2. Closing the fuel cycle

3. Introduction to nuclear reactor design Dr. Claude Renault, CEA

4. Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors (SFR)

5. Very High Temperature Reactors (VHTR)

6. Gas Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR)

7. Supercritical Water Reactors (SCWR)

8. Molten Salt Reactors (MSR)

9. Fluoride-Cooled High-Temperature reactors (FHR) Prof. Per Peterson, UC Berkeley, USA

10. Lead Fast Reactor (LFR) Prof. Craig Smith, US Naval Graduate

School, USA

11. Thorium fuel cycle

12. Nuclear Fuel and Materials Dr. Steven Hayes, INL, USA

13. Energy Conversion


One of the GIF-ETTF objectives: Evaluate the merits of Massive Open Online

Course(s) on Gen IV systems

What is the difference from webinars we plan?

− Webinar is a series of independent seminars to popularize Gen-IV concepts

− MOOC is the course with the curriculum, lectures, home works, tests,

discussion forum etc.12

http://edtechreview.in/dictionary/198-what-is-a-mooc http://www.arageek.com/edu/2015/09/26/how-education-revolution-starts.html



One of the candidate courses to be developed / converted to the GIF MOOC:

given by S. Pelloni and K. Mikityuk to Nuclear Engineering MS program

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Structure of the 14-week course:

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Matlab scripts Serpent

Prj.M1 Prj.M2 Prj.M3 Prj.S1

1 Introduction. Cross-sections preparation. HW #01

2 Slowing down theory. HW #02

3 Differential form of transport equation. Sn method. Rep.M1 HW#03

4 Integral form of transport equation. MoC. HW#04

5 Method of Monte-Carlo – I. HW#05

6 Method of Monte-Carlo – II. Rep.M2 HW#06

7 Modeling of fuel depletion. HW#07

8 Lattice calculations. Cross-sections parametrization. HW#08

9 Modeling of full core neutronics. Nodal methods. HW#09 Rep.S1

10 Modeling of feedbacks from fuel behaviour. HW#10

11 Modeling of feedbacks from thermal hydraulics. HW#11

12 Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.

13 Point and spatial reactor kinetics. HW#13

14 Overview. Rep.M3


MOOC – first ideasFor the Matlab-based exercises students use IAEA ADS Nuclear Data

Library v2.0: GENDF files with microscopic XSs in 421-energy group structure

(ORNL) from https://www-nds.iaea.org/ads/adsgendf.html



The current focus of Matlab exercises is on a PWR cell (simplified slab

geometry) and SFR cell (optionally) followed by the one-assembly model for

fuel and thermal-hydraulic analysis

For GIF MOOC the scope could be extended to other (all?) GIF systems.

We also developed the concept of multiple-choice quizzes (per lecture: 4

questions / 5 answers each).

Both Matlab-based exercises and quizzes could be integrated into the MOOC.

To be discussed...


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