About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Accelerated Qualification Methods for Nuclear Reactor Structural Materials
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| Presentation Title |
Standardising Reactor Pressure Vessel Steel Irradiation Data to Overcome Archiving and Mining Challenges |
| Author(s) |
Samik Krishnan |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Samik Krishnan |
| Abstract Scope |
Long-term data storage and subsequent data mining of irradiated materials are important to both nuclear materials science and reactor safety. Many post irradiated examination (PIE) data continue to be accumulated around the world, but databases available are inadequate and difficult to interpret and not standardized. This leads to repeated experiments and sample irradiation's simply because relevant data and samples are not available to the wider community due to insufficient archiving. The aim of this project is to study challenges in managing, organizing and curating the historical irradiation data at large scale for a specific component type of the forthcoming irradiation database called Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Steel Irradiation Database. Significant attention is given to the importance of systematic archiving and advanced data mining for uncovering valuable new knowledge. This project demonstrates data infrastructure — in addition to experimental scarcity itself — as a bottleneck in nuclear materials research. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Nuclear Materials, Iron and Steel, Modeling and Simulation |