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IAEA GIF General Information and Status of Arrangements - 18-19 March 2019, Nucleus, IAEA
GIF General Information and Status of
               Arrangements

                  18-19 March 2019,
                        IAEA

Dr Henri PAILLERE
NEA – Head, GIF Technical Secretariat
IAEA GIF General Information and Status of Arrangements - 18-19 March 2019, Nucleus, IAEA
Outline
 GIF organisation – governance
 Technical Secretariat organisation
 Update on GIF membership:
        UK, new active member since January 2019
        Turkey’s bid to join GIF
 Update on status of R&D arrangements (systems, projects)
 GIF publications:
        2017 Annual Report, R&D Outlook, Proc. 4th GIF Symposium
 Task Force activity:
        TF on R&D infrastructures ;
        TF on E&T– webinars
        ITF on advanced manufacturing and materials engineering
 Next EG/PG meetings
 NEA recent activity on advanced reactors & electricity markets

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Generation IV International Forum (GIF)
    governance structure (2019)
                                                         Chair PG: Mr Hideki KAMIDE
                                                                 (JAEA, JP)

                                                       Policy Director:
                                                       Mr Nobuchika KAWASAKI (JAEA, JP)
                                                       Technical Director (tbc)
                                                       Mr Gilles RODRIGUEZ (CEA, FR)
                                                       Technical Secretariat:
                                                       Dr Henri PAILLERE (OECD/NEA)

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Legal Support                   Coordination of TS
                                                                               H. Paillere                   EMWG                  RSWG            PRPPWG
                                       X. Vasquez
        SIAP                                                                                                  A. Vaya Soler         M. Demeshko       M. Ohirko

   M. Deffrennes                  IT Support                Assistant TS                 RD TF                AM iTF               SDC TF            E&T TF
                                                                                             H. Paillere             H. Paillere      S. Okajima         H. Paillere
                                           M. Bossant              G. Grosch

VHTR SSC                     GFR SSC                     SCWR SSC                            SFR SSC                          LFR pSSC             MSR pSSC
         S. Chang               A. Vaya Soler                H. Paillere                           S. Okajima                      S. Chang          A. Vaya Soler

VHTR MAT                   GFR CD&S                      SCWR TH&S               SFR AF                      SFR SIA
                                                                                  phase II
    A. Vaya Soler               A. Vaya Soler                H. Paillere             S. Okajima                   S. Okajima

VHTR FFC                    GFR FCM                      SCWR M&C                SFR SO                    SFR CDBOP
        S. Cornet               A. Vaya Soler                H. Paillere             S. Okajima                   S. Okajima

 VHTR HP                                                 SCWR SIA              SFR GACID
                                                                                                                             GIF
         S. Chang                                            H. Paillere             S. Okajima             Technical Secretariat
                                                                                                                                   as of February 2019
                                                                                                           ~ 12 staff members (part time) & 3 full
VHTR CMVB
                                                                                                                     time staff (including 2 CFEs)
         S. Chang

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IAEA GIF General Information and Status of Arrangements - 18-19 March 2019, Nucleus, IAEA
GIF membership (2019)

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IAEA GIF General Information and Status of Arrangements - 18-19 March 2019, Nucleus, IAEA
UK – “active” GIF member
 The UK was among the first countries to join the GIF
 Signatory of the GIF Charter and the GIF Framework Agreement (in 2005) –
  but had not ratified the FA.
 UK R&D teams involved in GIF projects through Euratom (until now)
 The UK deposited its Instrument of Ratification of the FA on 17 October 2019
 The FA entered into force for the UK
  on 16 January 2019
 It consequently signed:
    The VHTR System Arrangement
    The SFR System Arrangement

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Turkey’s bid to join GIF
 Turkey presented its bid to join the GIF at the PG meeting (Oct 2018)
 GIF Policy Group agreed to review the bid:
  » Discussions (phone conferences) between GIF and Turkish experts
     on areas of common interest (mainly MSR, materials, advanced
     power conversion systems – Brayton cycles) to be organised
     March/April
  » GIF delegation Technical visit to TUBITAK in Turkey summer 2019
     and report to PG
  » Decision on Turkey’s bid at the PG meeting in China (17-18 Oct
     2019)

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GIF members’ involvement in Gen IV systems R&D
                                                       As of 27 February 2019

  ● : signatory of System Arrangement
  ● : signatory of Project Arrangement                                          ● : signatory of MoU
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Arrangements (Feb 2019)
                               Effective since             AUS   CA        EU   FR       JP      CN      KR         ZA   RU   CH   UK        US
VHTR SA                          Extended                   X              X    X        X        X       X                   X    X          X
 HP PA                         19-Mar-08 / Ext                    X        X    X        X        S       X                   O               X
 FFC PA                       30-Jan-08 / Ext.                             X    X        X        X       X                                   X
 MAT PA                       30-Apr-10 Amd.               O               X    X        X        X       X                   X               X
 CMVB PA                      Prov – PP ready                              P             P        P       P                   O               P
SFR SA                           Extended                                  X    X        X        X       X              X         X          X
 AF PA (II)                     18 April 2018                              X    X        X        X       X              X                    X
 GACID PA                     27-Sep-07 / Exp.                                  X        X                                                    X
 CDBOP PA                     11-Oct-07 / Ext.                             O    X        X       O        X              O                    X
 SO PA                            11-Jun-09                                X    X        X       X        X              X                    X
 SIA PA                           22-Oct-14                                X    X        X       X        X              X                    X
SCWR SA                          Extended                         X        X             X       X                       X
 M&C PA                           6-Dec-10                        X        X             O       X                       O
 TH&S PA                           5-Oct-09                       X        X             O       X                       O
 SIA PA                          Provisional                      P        P             P       P                       P
GFR SA                           Extended                                  X    X        X
 CD&S PA                         17-Dec-09                                 X    X
 FCM PA                          Provisional                               P    P        P
LFR MOU                             no limit                               X             X       O       X               X                    X
MSR MOU                             no limit                X     O        X    X        O       O       O               X    X               X
X = SIGNATORY P = PROVISIONAL PARTICIPANT                   O = OBSERVER            S = SIGNATURE PROCESS ONGOING

 Signed recently     To be extended       Exp: expired / Ext: extended / Amd: Amendment
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Annual Report 2017 & R&D Outlook 2018

Annual Report 2017:
 Published and available on GIF website
 2018 Annual Report replaced by
  Proceedings of 4th GIF Symposium (see
  next slide)

R&D Outlook 2018:
 An update of the 2009 R&D Outlook
 Stand-alone high-level summary, published
  at the 4th GIF Symposium (Oct 2018)
 Full report to be published soon
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4th GIF Symposium – 16-17 Oct 2018
                                                        A very successful event
                                                        Over 200 participants
                                                        Plenary sessions with key note
                                                         speakers
                                                                          available at:
                                                        http://gifsymposium2018.gen-4.org/programme.html

                                                        Parallel sessions for the technical
                                                         tracks
                                                        More than 50 papers submitted, to
                                                         be included in the Proceedings (to
                                                         be published 2019)

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Task Force on Research Infrastructures
 TOR of the TF approved by the PG in Cape Town (Oct 2017)
 1st meeting took place in Feb 2018, hosted by NEA
       Representatives of GIF systems
       Representatives of Expert Group / countries
       Representatives of international organisations: IAEA, OECD NEA
 Chair: R. Garbil from EURATOM / Co-Chairs: A. Vasile from France and S. Kim
  from Korea
 Objectives: promote synergies between systems, enhance utilisation of research
  facilities, identify key research infrastructures that are needed (and may not
  exist)
 Regular TF meetings by phone conference
 Paper presented at 4th GIF Symposium
 TF Report in preparation (2019)
 Two-day workshop on experimental needs (including from private sector
  companies developing advanced reactors) planned week 17-21 Feb 2020

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Task Force Education & Training - webinars

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Interim Task Force on Advanced
   Manufacturing and Materials Engineering
 TOR of the interim Task Force on
  Advanced Manufacturing and
  Materials Engineering approved by
  PG at its May 2018 meeting.
 Chair: Mr Lyndon Edwards
  (ANSTO)
 Several conference calls organised
  since May PG meeting
 Experts nominated by PG
  members.
 iTF has sent out a survey to internal
  GIF experts and external experts:
    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WMVS67K
 Report to be produced in 2019

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EG/PG meetings: 27-31 May 2019, Vancouver

 Monday 27 May:                                        Technical Visit                 Joint EMWG/SIAP/SSC
 Tuesday 28 May:                                       EG meeting                      workshop on flexibility

                                                        SIAP meeting                EMWG Questionnaire sent to SSC
                                                                                      members in January 2019
 Wed 29 May:                                           EG meeting (morning)
                                                        EMWG meeting (morning)
                                                        Joint EMWG/SIAP/SSC workshop on flexibility
 Thursday 30 May:                                      Policy Group
                                                        CNL-organised SMR round table
 Friday 31 May:                                        Policy Group

A GIF/NICE Future Side Event may also be organised as part of the CEM side-events

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EG/PG meetings in Weihai, China, 14-18 October 2019

 EG meeting: 14-15
  October 2019

 Technical Visit: 16
  October 2019
    HTR-PM site

 Policy Group
  meeting: 17-18
  October 2019

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Update on NEA activities relevant to GIF
                                   Under Nuclear Development Committee

                                                       Recently published: The Full Costs of
                                                       Electricity Provision
                                                       https://www.oecd-
                                                       nea.org/ndd/webinars/2018/electricity-costs/
                                                       On-going studies:
                                                       - Nuclear cogeneration
                                                       - Advanced Reactors and Future Energy
                                                         Market Needs (ARFEM)
                                                          - Flexibility (including load following
                                                             capabilities), SMRs & Cogeneration
                                                       - Reducing Costs of Nuclear Generation
                                                         (started in June 2018)
                                                       - Long Term Operation (started June 2018)

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Update on NEA activities relevant to GIF
                                   Under Nuclear Development Committee

                                                       Recently published:

                                                       The costs of decarbonisation: system
                                                       costs with high shares of nuclear and
                                                       renewables

                                                       https://www.oecd-
                                                       nea.org/ndd/pubs/2019/7299-system-
                                                       costs.pdf

                                                       Webinar:

                                                       https://www.oecd-
                                                       nea.org/ndd/webinars/2019/system-costs/

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Innovation Bootcamp: 19-30 August 2019 at NEA
                           http://nuclearinnovationbootcamp.org/

 The 25 selected participants will gain a greater
 understanding on various topics key to the
 nuclear industry while nurturing their own
 project. The two-week program is centered on
 real-world team projects, and includes expert-led
 sessions as well as hands-on activities to boost
 creativity and innovation, including:

 •     Cross-cutting Needs in Nuclear Energy Systems
 •     Innovations, Creativity & Product Development
 •     Advanced Nuclear Technologies
 •     Government, Policy, and Communications
 •     Venture Fundamentals, Markets and Financing
 •     Licensing and Export Control

 Deadline for applications: 15 May 2019

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www.gen-4.org

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