GIF Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing

Date/Hours: 18-19 February 2020

A workshop focused on advanced manufacturing for Gen IV nuclear systems gathering the GIF members, GIF community and the industry.

You can watch the recordings of each session by following the links in the right part of the program below. 

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Advanced Manufacturing
Industry
Updated on 24/12/2024

Program of the event

Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing

TimeSessionDetails (w. timestamps in the livestream)Livestreams

Tuesday 18 February 2020

9h00 - 9h10Welcome and opening remarksSama Bilbao y Leon, OECD NEA 
Kamide Hideki, JAEA, Japan and Chair of the Policy Group
Watch the livestream of the first half of Day 1 here.
9h10 - 10h00Session 1 - Overview of the workshop

Introduction on the opportunities and challenges of advanced manufacturing, overview of GIF AMME Task Force, purpose of workshop: Why we are here! - Lyndon Edwards, ANSTO, Australia and Chair, Task Force - Advanced Manufacturing (00:05:39 to 00:18:30) 

The nuclear supply chain; past, present and future. - Andrew Storer, NAMRC, UK (00:19:50 to 00:43:00)

Q&A until 00:54:30

 
10h30 - 12h30Session 2 - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Additive manufacturing in the nuclear supply chain, Kurt Terrani, ORNL, USA (01:24:51 to 02:04:00)

Innovative fabrication in the nuclear supply chain, Dave Gandy, EPRI, USA (02:05:30 to 02:44:00)

Advanced surface coatings in the nuclear supply chain, Alfons Weisenburger, KIT, EU (02:44:15 to 03:15:00)

Panel Discussion (Presenters) led by Moderator (03:15:00 to 03:16:40)

Watch the livestream of the second half of Day 1 here.
14h00 - 15h00Session 3 - National Advanced Manufacturing Activities

Advanced Manufacturing collaboration in the USA, Isabella Van Royen/Mark Messner, DoE (00:03:10 to 00:33:50)

Advanced Manufacturing collaboration in the EU, Lorenzo Malerba, CIEMAT, EU (00:34:10 to 00:54:40)

Advanced Manufacturing collaboration in France, Eric Abonneau, CEA, France, EU (00:55:00 to 01:18:40)

 
15h30 - 17h00Session 4 - Group Activity

(Explanation: 01:19:00 to 01:21:20)

Split into 4 groups, which undertake following activities led by Moderator / Rapporteur:

  1. identify potential collaborative AMME activities/projects
  2. analyse each identified area of collaboration (SWOT analyses?)
  3. prioritization of identified areas/ideas
  4. agree communication for Rapporteur to give to meeting (can develop presentation overnight)  
 

Wednesday 19 February 2020

09h00 - 10h30Session 5 - Group Reporting and Meeting Outcomes

Communally undertake following activities:

Rapporteurs from each group presents group output:

Red group : 00:02:30 to 00:07:10

Orange group : 00:07:50 to 00:19:00

Green group : 00:20:47 to 00:32:30

Yellow group : 00:36:00 to 00:50:15

Blue group : 00:50:50 to 01:04:00

Overall prioritisation of potential collaborative AMME activities/projects

Identification of next steps and way forward (01:04:00 to 01:20:00)

Watch the livestream of Day 2 here.

Biographies of the speakers of the workshop

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