Canadian Nuclear Laboratories: Nuclear S&T and Innovation
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Canadian Nuclear Laboratories:
Nuclear S&T and Innovation R. Speranzini
2015 July 7
•Canadian Industry •CANDU & Priorities/Interests •Program, Facilities & Budgets •Collaborations
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Organization of Canada’s Nuclear Industry
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PARLIAMENT OF CANADA
NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA
Hon. Greg Rickford
Minister
PROVINCIAL
GOVERNMENTS
ELECTRICAL UTILITIES
Ontario Power Generation,
Hydro-Québec, NB Power,
ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LTD
Peter Currie, Chair
Board of Directors
CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY
COMMISSION
Michael Binder, President
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories
CNL
Robert Walker, President
PRIVATE INDUSTRY
Bruce Power, SNC
Candu Energy, OCI, etc
Supply Chain
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AECL History • Birthplace of Canada’s nuclear industry
• First sustained nuclear criticality outside USA
• AECL established as a Crown Corporation in 1952
• Co-60 for 1st cancer treatment in Canada, & commercial isotopes (e.g. Mo-99)
• Developed CANDU power reactor technology
• Research reactors and materials R&D (NRU, NRX, ZED-2)
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Canadian Nuclear Industry • ~$6 billion per year industry
• 60,000 workers across Canada, 200 company supply chain
• CANDU® reactors operated safely for 50 years
• 60% of Ontario electricity and 17% of Canadian electricity
• World leader in peaceful use of nuclear technology
Romania
Cernavoda 2 units
Ontario, Canada
Darlington 4 units
Pickering 6 units
Bruce 8 units
New Brunswick,
Canada
Point Lepreau 1 unit
Argentina
Embalse 1 unit
Republic of Korea
Wolsong 4 units
India
2 CANDU units +
16 HWR units
Pakistan
KANUPP 1 unit
China
Qinshan 2 units
Point Lepreau, Canada
Pickering, Canada
31 CANDU Reactors in Operation Around the World
and 16 in India based on CANDU Design
Qinshan, China
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Government of Canada
Canadian Nuclear
Laboratories (CNL)
CANDU Reactor
Division
Phase 1 restructuring (Completed 2011 Oct)
Phase 2 restructuring (underway)
AECL
AECL Restructuring
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
New
Brunswick
Chalk River Laboratories
Whiteshell Laboratories
Douglas Point
NPD
Port Hope / Granby
Glace Bay Gentilly 1
LaPrade
CNL’s Canadian Footprint
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The Chalk River Laboratories is the single largest science and
technology laboratory in Canada.
• ~ 9,000 acres in size , ~200 acres lab complex
• 17 nuclear facilities, 70 major buildings
• 3,400 employees (~600 PhDs and Masters)
• 1,700 engineering, scientific, and technical staff
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Missions
Decommissioning & Waste Management
Science and Technology for Government
Science and Technology for Industry
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A broad mandate, serving both government and private sector
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CNL’s Science & Technology Priorities
• Understand and address public perceptions of radiation
• Enable CANDU as a key contributor to Canada’s energy portfolio
• Understand, prevent and mitigate risks associated with nuclear operations
• Advance knowledge base for informed standards and regulation
• Enhance national and global nuclear security
• Secure options for future energy needs and sustainability via nuclear technology
• Develop and demonstrate minimal impact on the environment
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Continuous Development Towards
the Future
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CANDU Energy
lead
Gen IV
CANDU SCWR
Continually enhance both the
design and applications based on
the CANDU concept
Enhanced
CANDU 6
CANDU 6
Products, Services & IP
Products, Services & IP
R&D
CANDU Evolution
NRCan &
AECL-CNL
lead
AFCR
Advanced Fuel Cycle Flexibility
and Reactor Synergies
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Priorities and Areas of Interest
•CANDU Life Extension • Bruce Units 1 & 2 returned in 2012 after life extension projects
• Point Lepreau Refurbishment complete in 2012
• Wolsong 1 Retube complete in 2011
•Next generation of CANDU reactors • AFCR
• Advanced Fuel and Fuel Cycles
• Applications beyond electricity production; e.g. district heating, process heating, etc
•SMRs • 2-10 MWe or vSMRs (<1 MWe) for off-grid remote communities
• Up to 300 MWe for replacement of fossil plants
•Fast Reactors • Discussion in Canada in context of waste management
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1. Nuclear and Radioactive Material Management
2. Irradiation and Post-Irradiation Services
3. Nuclear Safety
4. Radiation Biology, Radioecology and Dosimetry
5. Materials and Chemistry in Nuclear Applications
Unique capabililities; strategic advantage
CNL Centres of Excellence
AECL’s 10 Centres of Excellence (CoE) represent a unique
blend of people, tools and technologies, which provide an
innovative and strategic nuclear science & technology
capability.
Through these we create new business opportunities, drive
global competitive advantage and generate commercial and
public policy benefits.
6. Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Fuel Cycles
7. Systems Engineering
8. Advanced Computing, Modelling and Simulation
9. Hydrogen and Hydrogen Isotopes Management
10. Environmental Remediation and Nuclear Waste Management
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Hot Cells Fuel/Actinides Surface Science Thermalhydraulics
ZED-2 Reactor NRU Reactor Biological Research
Unique Radioactive Materials S&T
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Analytical Chemistry Laboratories Biofouling and Biocorrosion Facilities Biological Research Facility CAN-DECON Test Loops #2 and #3 Chemical and Corrosion Autoclave and Loop Test Co-60 Gamma Irradiation Facility Containment Chemistry Laboratory Core Disassembly Facility Deformation Technology Calandria Tube Burst Test and Creep Rupture Testing Laboratory Delayed Hydride Cracking Facility Digital Radiography and Computer Tomography Environmental Technologies Branch Fission Products Behaviour Laboratory Fluid Sealing Technology Metrology Facility Fuel Development Branch Gammacell 220 Cobalt-60 Irradiator Facility GEANT4 Dynamic Simulation Facility Health Physics Neutron Generator High Bay and Laboratories High Pressure Water Test Loop Facilities High Temperature and Pressure Test Loop Facilities High Temperature Fuel Channel Laboratory
Impact Fretting-Wear Facility Large Scale Containment Facility Large-Scale Vented Combustion Test Facility Laser Dimensioning Laser Welding Facility Mechanical Testing Laboratories Metallographic Services Laboratory Model Development Laboratory Molten Fuel Moderator Interaction Facility Nuclear Reactor Universal (NRU) Nuclear Instrumentation Development Laboratory RD-14M Experimental Facility Recycle Fuel Fabrication Laboratories Single-Specimen Uniaxial-Stress Thermal Creep Small Scale Burst Test Facility Strainer Test Facilities Surface Science Laboratories Thermalhydraulics Laboratory Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory Tritium Facility Van de Graaff Accelerator Facility X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory ZED-2 Research Reactor
More than 50 unique S&T Facilities
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Building the future
Hydrogen Isotopes Technology Facility
Multipurpose Science Facility – Building 350
Fuel Packaging & Storage Facility
Enabling current and future success – investment in CRL infrastructure
Federal Nuclear S&T Budget
Year Budget (in million CAN $)
2010-2011 307
2011-2012 134
2012-2013 105
2013-2014 107
2014-2015 108
2015-2016 109
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Collaborations with Canadian Universities
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University of New Brunswick
Mount Allison University
Carleton University
Université de Sherbrooke
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
St. Mary’s University
University of Guelph
Simon Fraser University
University of British Columbia
University of Ottawa
University of Toronto McMaster University
McGill University University of Alberta
St. Francis Xavier University
Trent University University of Saskatchewan
Queens University Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal University of Manitoba
University of Calgary
Royal Military College University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Laurentian University
Trent University
27 Universities across Canada
Ryerson
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International Cooperation
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•Multilateral •NEA •IAEA – including INPRO •Gen IV •IFNEC
•Bilateral – Government
•US INERI •Euratom
•Bilateral – Laboratory, Institutes & Universities
•China •Argentina •Romania •India •etc
•S&T for Government •complete with AECL restructuring
•S&T for Industry on a Commercial basis
•Commercial S&T for nuclear industry on-going •Nuclear innovation partnerships •Non-nuclear industry services
•Exploring an Industry Driven Innovation Agenda
•Understand the potential value to Canada of a cost-shared R&D initiative
•Research Reactor
•NRU scheduled to shut down
•Collaborations Support the Technology Base
Summary & Other Considerations