AREVA is a world leader in nuclear power. The group’s offer to utilities covers every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle, reactor design and construction, and operating services.  Serving as Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), AREVA NP has built about 100 nuclear plants in 11 countries that provide about 30% of the world's total installed nuclear power capacity and its experienced resources remain focused on the local needs of individual clients, wherever in the world they may be. Its expertise and uncompromising dedication to safety make it a leading industry player. AREVA also invests in renewable energies to develop, via partnerships, high technology solutions. Through the complementary nature of nuclear and renewables, AREVA’s 45,000 employees contribute to building tomorrow’s energy model: supplying the greatest number of people with energy that is safer and with less CO2.

Role in the project

Within SOTERIA, AREVA NP SAS contributes to the analysis of Irradiation Assisted Corrosion Cracking though tests, material characterisations and analyses of the experiments.

Personnel involved

Lionel FOURNIER, Materials/Corrosion Expert Technical Leader of the Framatome Owners Group Corrosion Working Group Principal Investigator of several EPRI contracts related to corrosion issues and materials ageing with the PSCR (Internal oxidation as a precursor of Alloy 600 PWSCC, Crack coalescence) and the MRP (Void Swelling, Irradiation creep, Austenitic stainless steel stress corrosion cracking in out of specifications primary PWR water, Mitigation techniques).
Gilles Perrin, Engineer AREVA fellow, more than 80 publications in Mechanics and Materials. R&D manager in materials and mechanics. Definition and supervision of a thesis on hydrogen induced flakes. Teaching at Ecole polytechnique and Université de Bourgogne
Nicolas Huin, Project Manager 1 year experience at AREVA Technical center in charge of Stress Corrosion Cracking. 4 years of experience at EDF R&D in Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion Fatigue. Multiple collaborations with EPRI and MHI. PhD in Material and Mechanical Engineering with ENSMA Master, 2 Bachelor and College degrees in Material and Mechanical Engineering.