Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Technical Papers, Presentations and Articles - 2009
Experts at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) are often requested to present technical papers and presentations about the nuclear industry at conferences, seminars, technical meetings and workshops in Canada and around the world. Also, these experts write technical articles that are published in various journals.Below is a listing of abstracts for published papers, presentations and journal articles.
To obtain a copy of the document that is related to an abstract, please contact us at info@cnsc-ccsn.gc.ca or call 613-995-5894 or 1-800-668-5284 (in Canada). When contacting us, please provide the title and date of the abstract.
2009
| Subject: | Implementation of the precautionary and sustainable development principles in Nuclear Law - A Canadian Perspective |
| Presented at: | University of Montpellier 1 |
| Date: | December 2009 |
| Location: | Montpellier, France |
| Prepared by: | Jacques Lavoie - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Subject: | CNSC Approach to the design review of nuclear fuel systems for new nuclear power plants |
| Presented at: | IAEA Technical Meeting on Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor Fuel Design Fabrication & Performance |
| Date: | November 9-12, 2009 |
| Location: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Prepared by: | Ho-Chun Suk and Michel Couture |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | CNSC Approach to the design review of nuclear fuel systems for new nuclear power plants |
| Published in: | IAEA Technical Meeting on Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor Fuel Design Fabrication & Performance |
| Date: | November 9-12, 2009 |
| Location: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Prepared by: | Ho-Chun Suk and Michel Couture - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Accident Precursor Program – A CNSC Perspective |
| Presented at: | 12th Technical Meeting on Risk-based Precursor Analysis |
| Date: | November 4-6, 2009 |
| Location: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Prepared by: | Jaafar Karouni – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Presentation |
| Subject: | A stochastic model for piping failure frequency analysis using OPDE data |
| Published in: | Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power (Vol. 131, September) |
| Date: | September 2009 |
| Location: | New York, New York, USA |
| Prepared by: | Jovica Riznic – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Article |
| Subject: | Update on Canadian Regulatory Oversight of Ageing Management for Nuclear Power Plants |
| Presented at: | 20th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 20) |
| Date: | August 17-19, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | Ken Kirkhope, Andrei Blahoianu and Gerry Frappier – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Regulatory Approach for the Assessment of Fire Protection Programs at Nuclear Power Plants in Canada |
| Presented at: | 11th International Seminar on Fire Safety in Nuclear Power Plant and Installations |
| Date: | August 17-19, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | Adderrazzaq Bounagui, Grant Cherkas and Ivan Bolliger – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | |
| Published in: | 20th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 20) |
| Date: | August 9-14, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | (a) Nebojsa Orbovic and Andrei Blahoianu
a) Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Activities of OECD/NEA in the field of integrity and ageing of components and structures |
| Published in: | 20th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 20) |
| Date: | August 9-14, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | (a) Andrei Blahoianu; and (b) Alejandro Huerta a) Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC),Ottawa, Ontario, Canada b) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency, Nuclear Safety Division, Paris, France |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Activities of OECD/NEA in the fields of seismic hazard assessment & earthquake engineering |
| Published in: | 20th International Conference Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 20 – Division 2, Paper 1854) |
| Date: | August 9-14, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | (a) Andrew J. Murphy; (b) Andrei Blahoianu; and, (c) Alejandro Huerta a) U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, USA b) Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) c) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency, Nuclear Safety Division, Paris, France |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Application of the leak before break concept to CANDU feeder piping with service induced cracking |
| Presented at: | 20th International Conference Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 20 – Division 2, Paper 1854) |
| Date: | August 9-14, 2009 |
| Location: | Espoo, Finland |
| Prepared by: | John C. Jin and Raoul Awad – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Stress re-distribution induced by creep relaxation around a notch loaded in tension-measurement and modeling |
| Presented at: | American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME-PVP2009 Pressure and Vessels and Piping Conference |
| Date: | July 26-30, 2009 |
| Location: | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Prepared by: | Nicholas Christodoulou – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Investigation of discrepancies in waterhammer structural integrity analysis simulation and actual vibration testing |
| Presented at: | 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE17) |
| Date: | July 12-16, 2009 |
| Location: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Prepared by: | Khalid Chaudhry and Andrei Blahoianu |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Effect of environmental and material conditions on stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of carbon steels in high temperature water |
| Presented at: | 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE17) |
| Date: | July 12-16, 2009 |
| Location: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Prepared by: | Sue Liu - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Crack growth model for the probabilistic assessment of inspection strategies for steam generator tubes |
| Presented at: | 17th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE17) |
| Date: | July 12-16, 2009 |
| Location: | Brussels, Belgium |
| Prepared by: | Jovica R. Riznic - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Paper |
| Subject: | Assessment of steam generator tube flaw size and leak rate models |
| Published in: | Nuclear technology, Vol. 167, July 2009, (P 157 – 158) |
| Date: | July 2009 |
| Location: | Chicago, Ill, USA |
| Prepared by: | Jovica Riznic - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Article |
| Subject: | Ageing Management |
| Published in: | Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) News |
| Date: | Journal Article: vol. 27.1 (June 2009) |
| Location: | Paris, France |
| Prepared by: | Andrei Blahoianu |
| Type: | Technical Article |
| Subject: | A Risk-Informed Perspective on Deterministic Safety Analysis of Nuclear Power Plan |
| Presented at: | 2009 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants |
| Date: | May 10-14, 2009 |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Prepared by: | Pak T. Wan |
| Type: | Technical Presentation |
| Subject: | Regulatory perspective on CANDU feeder pipe degradation due to flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) and intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) |
| Presented at: | IAEA workshop on erosion-corrosion including flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) and environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) issues in nuclear power plants |
| Date: | April 21-23, 2009 |
| Location: | Moscow, Russia |
| Prepared by: | John C. Jin and Raoul Awad – Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) |
| Type: | Technical Presentation |
