UNENE R&D Workshop 2021
Industry presentations
The Culture of Innovation (keynote)
Bharath Nangia
President and CEO, NPX Innovations
The Need for Innovation to Build SMRs – and Fight Climate Change
Robin Manley
Vice President, New Nuclear Development, OPG
Going Far, Together
Christina Van Drunen
Director, S&T Strategy and Collaboration, CNL
UNENE-Industry R&D Collaboration
Carlos Lorencez
Director, Nuclear Safety & Environmental Affairs, COG
CCNS Innovation
Sabrina Nestor
Senior Manager, Centre for Canadian Nuclear Sustainability
R&D at Bruce Power
Dominique Lachance and Jason Goldberg
Bruce Power
Industrial Research Chair updates
Nuclear Safety Analysis and Nuclear Reactor Safety and Thermalhydraulics
Dave Novog
McMaster University
Nuclear Materials
Mark Daymond
Queen’s University
Radiation-Induced Chemical & Materials Science
Clara Wren
Western University
Corrosion Control and Materials Performance in Nuclear Power Systems
Roger Newman
University of Toronto
Risk-based Life Cycle Management of Engineering Systems
Mahesh Pandey
University of Waterloo
Health Physics and Environmental Safety
Ed Waller
Ontario Tech University
Controls, Instrumentation and Electrical Systems
Jing Jiang
Western University
High Temperature Aqueous Chemistry
Peter Tremaine
University of Guelph
Research Cooperative Project updates
Overview of Nuclear Research at UNB’s Centre for Nuclear Energy Research
Willy Cook
University of New Brunswick
CFD Analysis of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Corium Melt for CANDU Reactors
Marilyn Lightstone
McMaster University
Methodology Development for Volume Reduction and Safe Storage and Disposal of Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Wastes
Clara Wren
Western University
Networked Drones for Concrete Structure, Environmental, and Radiation Surveys
Angela Schoellig
University of Toronto
Digitalization to Support Decommissioning Tasks
Carl Haas (presented by Sriram Narasimham)
University of Waterloo
Enhancing Nondestructive Evaluation for CANDU Fuel Channels
Thomas Krause
Royal Military College
A Graphene Oxide Membrane Assembly for Filtration of Tritiated Heavy Water
Mark Daymond
Queen’s University
Failure Analysis in X-750 CANDU Spacer Materials Using Ion Irradiation, Mechanical Testing, and TEM Examination
Zhongwen Yao (presented by Pouyan Changizian)
Queen’s University
Study of Contaminants in Plasmas during Decommissioning Processes
Glenn Harvel
Ontario Tech University
Student presentations
Poster presentations, Day 1
Amna Hassan (Ontario Tech), Marta Kocemba (Ontario Tech), Lekhnath Ghimire (Ontario Tech), Mustafa Ciftcioglu (Ontario Tech), Hao Sun (Queen’s), Adil Shaik (Queen’s), Vindel Ramsundar (Queen’s), Hooman Gholamzadeh (Queen’s), Adriano Yaedu (Queen’s), Yaoting Zhang (Queen’s), Amir Ghorbani (Queen’s), Maryanne Stones (Guelph)
Poster presentations, Day 2
Owen P. Purdy (Queen’s), Frank Hawkins (Queen’s), Peyman Saidi (Queen’s), Yu Luo (Western), Colin Colterjohn (McMaster), Fabiola Guido Garcia (McMaster), Karim Zongo (École Polytechnique), Aditya Kamath (Queen’s), Victor Udo-Okoro (Queen’s), Matthew Wolf, (Guelph), Mahdi Monsini (Queen’s), Touraj Ghaznavi (Toronto)
Paper presentations
Hooman Gholamzadeh (Queen’s), Garik Patterson (McMaster), Brianna Rector (Western), Aditya Kamath (Queen’s), Momal Mazher (Ontario Tech), Samantha Binkley (Guelph) – WINNER, Nima Nikpoor Badr (Queen’s), Anh Nguyen (U of T), Cuauhtemoc Reale Hernandez (McMaster), Thao Do (Western), Keyvan Ferasat (Queen’s)