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.
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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We stand with Ukraine
ACES working towards finding solutions to help our Ukraine colleagues to continue their R&D work in other partner institutes. #WeStandWithUkraine as our ACES partner!
Experimental study and modeling of the effect of prestressing on the internal swelling reactions of concrete
Internal swelling reactions (ISR) can lead to the degradation of concrete due to expansion induced by such chemical reactions. ISR are common in massive concrete structures such as nuclear power plants that contain prestress reinforcement and are thus submitted to creep. Recent research shows the importance of the effect of prestressing on the reduction of …