NDE-ISI seminar - Agenda and presentations

1. Welcome and Introduction

• Chair’s welcome ( Oliver Martin, JRC), opening comments
• Introduction of participants 

DG-ENER/EC 

All 

2. Novel NDE techniques and their qualification

• Presentation on ENIQ and inspection qualification
• Case study: Overview of stress corrosion cracking of safety injection pipe welds at French PWRs
• Regulator’s perspective on inspection of safety injection pipe welds at French PWRs
• Full matrix capture (FMC) / Total focussing method (TFM)
• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in NPPs
• Discussion 

-Oliver Martin (JRC) 

-Philippe Malouines (NucAdvisor) 

-Flavien Simon (ASNR) 

-Chris Curtis (IVC) 

-Bastien Chapuis (CEA)/ 

  Bastien Poubeau (ASNR) 

3. Deployment of NDE systems that use AI/ML for data analysis and their qualification

• State-of-the-art and recent field experience
• Use of AI/ML in reactor pressure vessel head penetration inspections
• Discussion 

-Iikka Virkkunen (Trueflaw/ Aalto Univ.) 

-Peter Alzen (SQC) 

3. Deployment of NDE systems that use AI/ML for data analysis and their qualification (cont.)

• Machine Learning Application in Ultrasonic Testing of Welds
• Discussion 

-Daniel Dopjera (UJV) 

4. Risk-Informed In-Service Inspection (RI-ISI)

• Safety Benefits of RI-ISI
• RI-ISI perspectives
• Regulator’s perspective on RI-ISI (Finland)
• Discussion 

-David Duxbury (Rolls Royce Submarines) 

-Rick Fougerousse (EPRI) 

-Tarja Nuoranne (STUK) 

5. Test piece manufacturing and use of virtual flaws and manipulated data in inspection qualifications

• Use of virtual flaws / manipulated data in inspection personnel qualifications
• Quantitative techniques to create virtual flaws
• Discussion

-Chris Curtis (IVC)

-Pierre Calmon (CEA) 

6. European regulators’ experience of ISI/NDE approaches and future challenges

• Belgium
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• Discussion

-Hans Vandriessche ( Vinçotte)

-Martina Suty (ENSI)

-Harshad Halai (ONR)

      8.  International perspective 

• Regulatory developments in ISI/NDE in the US
• ISI/NDE perspectives for Candu and BWRX-300 SMR in Canada
• Discussion

-Stephen Cumblidge (US NRC) (by video)

-Blair Carrol, Sankar Laxman (CNSC) (by video)

9. Final discussions and conclusions