Jan Trejbal

Advancing corrosion safety assessment for concrete structures in NPPs

Through our EU-funded research, ZAG Slovenija and Laborelec identified two effective non-destructive corrosion testing techniques (NDTs) – Pulsed Eddy Current and half-cell Potential Mapping. These portable and cost-effective NDTs enable early detection of steel liner corrosion inside steel cylinder concrete pipes (SCCPs). To automate the inspection process, CEA developed a robotic platform with a manipulator, specifically designed for corrosion NDTs inside …

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3rd ACES Project meeting

At the third meeting of the project partners, which took place between May 10 and 12 at the ZAG headquarters in Ljubljana, the results to date and future activities were presented. 30 participants were present, and another 26 attended online. The joint part of the meetings dealt with the general contents of project management and …

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Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration

We welcome a new member to the end user group Slovenian Nuclear Safety Administration. All members of the End User Group can be found Here.

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

We are honored to welcome a new member to our end user group, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission – Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire. You can find all our End Users Here

NDE NucCon 2023

Proud of ACES’s organization and participation in the NDE NucCon 2023! The International Conference on Non-destructive Evaluation of Concrete in Nuclear Applications (NDE NucCon) is co-organized by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aalto University and BAM. While non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of reinforced concrete structures (RCS) in civil engineering applications has a long history, within …

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Happy New Year 2023

Dear ACES Colleagues and Partners,Thank you for what you all have done for the ACES project this year. We are living in very challenging times, and I want to believe our work and effort will make a difference. May this Christmas season bring you and your loved ones a great deal of joy and peace. …

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Mid-term Workshop

This week, the Mid-term workshop of our project took place in the Research Centre Řež. The program of the two-day workshop included two blocks of End User Group View presentations and four blocks of ACES working progress. The book of abstracts and presentations can be found in the download section. We thank everyone for their participation …

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Students made test samples of concrete

As part of the ACES project, we work with irradiated rock samples, which are further examined in Hot Cells laboratories. The preparation of samples is very time and financially demanding. The cylindrical samples are only about 1 x 1 cm and 1 x 2 cm, and therefore the operator of the Hot Cells needs to …

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The 2nd project meeting

The 2nd project meeting is currently underway at the Finnish VTT in Espoo. The program is very busy. Presentations of individual work packages and meetings of the work groups themselves take place every day. We thank the main coordinator of the project for the organization and hospitality.

Corrosion of steel liners

Corrosion of steel liners inside concrete structures is one of the concerns in the aging management of Nuclear Power Plants (NPP). WP2 of the ACES project is addressing two cases where safety is the major challenge: chloride-induced corrosion of Steel Cylinder Concrete Pipes (SCCP) and crevice corrosion of steel liner embedded in the concrete of …

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