1. UNENE Perspective Dr. V.G. Snell Programme Director, UNENE
on behalf of
Basma Shalaby, UNENE President
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Outline
What is UNENE?
What do we do?
Education
Research
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Summary
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What is UNENE?
UNENE is an industry-university partnership which:
Supplies highly-qualified graduates
Supports and funds nuclear research
Creates respected university-based experts
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Members
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Bruce Power
Ontario Power Generation
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CANDU Owners Group
Nuclear Safety Solutions
CAMECO
McMaster University
Queen's University
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
University of Saskatchewan
University of Toronto
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Ecole Polytechnique
University of New Brunswick
Royal Military College
University of Guelph
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Education – UNENE M.Eng.
Course based:
10 courses OR
8 courses plus a project
3 of the 10 courses can be Business Courses from Advanced Design and Manufacturing Institute (ADMI)
Accredited by Ontario Council of Graduate Studies
Courses are graduate level in content & expectations
Offered by McMaster, Waterloo, Western and Queen’s
Geared to the working professional
Topics are relevant to work in industry
Scheduled outside working hours
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Typical Courses
UN0802: Nuclear reactor analysis
UN0801: Nuclear plant systems and operations
UN0804: Nuclear reactor heat transport system design
UN0803: Nuclear reactor safety design
UN0603: Project management for nuclear engineering
UN0901: Nuclear materials
UN0805: Radiation health risks and benefits
UN0702: Power plant thermodynamics
UN0701: Engineering risk and reliability
UN0601: Control, instrumentation and electrical systems in CANDU
UN1001: Reactor chemistry and corrosion
UN0902: Fuel management
UN0602: Nuclear fuel waste management
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Student Enrolment
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Enrollment by Company
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Research
Support Industrial Research Chairs
McMaster (Luxat / Novog) – Safety / T-H
Queens (Holt / Daymond) - Materials
Toronto (Newman) – Nano Eng’g of Alloys
Waterloo (Pandey) – Risk
Western (Jiang) – I&C, Electrical
RMC (Lewis) – Fuels
UOIT (Waker / Waller) – Health Physics
Typically $200,000 per year
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Research – cont’d
Collaborative Research and Development Grants (with NRCan)
Queens (Clapham) – feeder stress measurement
McMaster (Lightstone) – subchannel mixing
Guelph (Tremaine) – D2O chemistry
Klassen (Western) – PT fracture toughness
Kawaji (Toronto) – dryout & IBIF
Lewis (RMC) – fuel performance code
Lewis (RMC) – fuel failure monitor
Lewis / Thompson (RMC) – spectroscopy of fuel with Dy
Daymond (Queens) - DHC
Small projects ~$30,000/year for 3 years from 2005/6
Superb value for money
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Getting better …
Increased enrollment in the M.Eng.
Enrollment now budget-limited by the employers, not student limited
Recognition – e.g. part of path to shift supervisor at OPG
Continued building of capacity at Universities with IRCs / CRDs
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Overall role of CRL
Our expectation:
Short-term: product support for AECL
ACR-1000, Enhanced CANDU 6
Medium term: advanced/closed fuel cycles
Long-term: Gen IV reactors
Materials, R&D infrastructure etc.
Development of HQP, knowledge, education
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Better use of the great R&D facilities we have in Canada for training students
Use MNR at McMaster and facilities at CRL more, for developing HQP
More staff into the UNENE M.Eng. Programme as teachers & students
CRL enrollment has been minimal
Distance education introduced this year
CRL Staff could help teach courses
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Perspective – cont’d
Easier to get / use CRL nuclear simulation software
Somewhat overwhelming process
CRL the natural Canadian code centre
Good courses in new areas – e.g. fuel design
As/when UNENE expands, we want to enlarge the course offerings
Supervision of student projects
Mostly by CNSC, SP and universities to date
CRL experience would be valuable for both
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Perspective – cont’d
Mutual peer review of proposals & results
Easy access to scientific peer reviewers
Sponsor to organize and preserve knowledge
No home to date
Exchange of Staff
Mutual sabbaticals at each other’s sites
Not expensive
Continued support of UNENE IRCs and CRDs
Sine qua non
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16. Collaboration means success
Examples
Luxat proposal for huge & wide consortium in nuclear
NUCLEUS Centre of Excellence - includes UNENE
C. Wren NSERC proposal to train students on extreme aqueous chemistry & materials
Universities, domestic & foreign industry
Laboratory – University synergies
Other countries do it well – e.g. Germany, U.S.
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Turning Around
What are CRL’s expectations of UNENE?
How can we serve the industry better in terms of research and education?
Lab. Facilities? Irradiations? Peer review? Independent expertise? Analysis tools?
Can CRL in its new role work more closely with a university research environment?
Can UNENE participate in setting strategic direction for R&D? or doing more of it?
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Summary
UNENE is growing – both M.Eng., IRCs and CRDs
Need to maintain ongoing links with industry, with focus on CRL as major R&D supplier
Collaboration on CRDs
Collaboration on education
Review, staff exchange, support
Wider / broader /deeper interaction with Universities and UNENE
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