As part of the "nuclear power of tomorrow" program of the Investments for the Future program, the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra), in cooperation with the French National Research Agency (ANR), has selected the Sccodra project. Launched in 2017 with a budget of 2.5 million euros, it is developing solutions for monitoring and controlling the corrosion of metal components for radioactive waste storage.
In a video available on Youtube, Cetim, coordinator of the project, looks in detail at its two main aspects: the development of a technique for the non-destructive testing of metal containers for radioactive waste upon their reception at the disposal center, in order to guarantee their integrity easily, quickly, reliably and accurately, and the development of a methodology for monitoring the corrosion of certain metal structures within the repository over time. This concerns in particular the steel tubes (liners) placed in the microtunnels where the high-level long-lived waste (HLLW) will be stored. Once again, this methodology is based on innovative technologies from the fields of NDT (Non Destructive Testing), electrochemistry and electrical techniques.
Sccodra is accredited by the ViaMéca competitiveness cluster, and brings together Cetim, the Mateis and LVA laboratories of the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon (Insa), Origalys Electrochem, VLM Robotics and the Institut de la Corrosion.
Towards more automated and interconnected 3D metrology
Metrologic Group reminds us that metrology 4.0 refers to the integration of digital technologies, automation and Industry 4.0 concepts into measurement and control processes...