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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



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)


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


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


Missions

Decommissioning & Waste Management

Science and Technology for Government

Science and Technology for Industry


A broad mandate, serving both government and private sector


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

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CANDU Energy

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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


Hot Cells Fuel/Actinides Surface Science Thermalhydraulics

ZED-2 Reactor NRU Reactor Biological Research

Unique Radioactive Materials S&T


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


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

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