b"2019 | ANNUAL REPORTIrradiationAssisted Stress Corrosion CrackingAs the current fleet of commercial nuclear reactors age, it is important for researchers and industry to under-stand and predict how the materials in a reactor will deteriorate. INL's high activity Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking (IASCC) instru-mentation is helping researchers and industry do just that. The IASCC instrumentation is located in the Fuels and Applied Science Building (FASB) at INLs MFC and is funded by NSUF. This test rig is located in a heavily shielded test cell and isHot cells housing INL's Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking instrumentation capable of performing crack-growth rate measurements on full-sizement in this initiative is key as NSUFsexperiment development, specifically specimens under the same condi- overarching goal is to provide no-costNSUF funded CINR proposals. The tions as the current fleet of lightaccess to NSUF facilities as well asapplication provides an online toolkit water reactors.expertise for researchers to studyfor researchers to build their CINR The capability represents one ofthe effects of irradiation on nuclearproposal using NSUF facilities. The only approximately five such facili- materials and fuels. This new initia- tool guides users through experi-ties in the world and enables worktive plans to use high-throughputment design providing them with all that supports mitigation of materialcharacterization techniques to addressthe information they need about the degradation in light water reac- critical knowledge gaps, use datafacility, instruments, technical leads, tors, John Jackson, NSUFs Industryanalytics and physics-based modelingand all other information necessary Program Lead, said.to discover and optimize new mate- in the project design. While not rials, manufacture and test potentialofficially available to users yet, the Nuclear Materialsmaterials and fuels, and establish stra- application will be made available to Discovery andtegic partnerships with universities,users in FY-20. Qualification Initiative national laboratories, and industry. The Nuclear Materials Discovery andCombined MaterialsQualification Initiative (NMDQi) is aExperiment Toolkitproject with the goal of acceleratingThe Combined Materials Experiment the discovery and qualification ofToolkit (CoMET) is a web-based new fuels and materials in order toapplication for irradiation testing fulfill the short timelines of potential advanced reactors. NSUFs involve-21"