 About the MAI.
The Materials Ageing Institute is a utility-oriented research center founded in January 2008 and financed by Electricité de France (EDF), the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) and the US Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The key purpose of the MAI is to direct efforts in research and development towards ageing of materials used in electrical power facilities. This initiative by the worldís biggest nuclear operators is motivated by the conviction that sharing research, experimental results, feedback and scientific information will significantly contribute to our understanding of the ageing processes in various materials employed in both nuclear and non-nuclear power plants. The combination of operational know-how, experimental knowledge, and computer modelling of coupled processes can then be used to anticipate ageing and henceforth increase the durability of materials, components and structures. 
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News
MAI visited by Henri Proglio
Mar 16, 2010 05:55 PM
On March 11, Henri Proglio, President of EDF Group, honored the Materials Ageing Institute with a visit, illustrating the importance of the institute for EDF and for its R&D unit in particular.
Kansai joins the MAI
Dec 04, 2009 07:25 PM
The Kansai Electric Power Company decided to join the MAI as a full member, starting in January 2010. We believe that this is excellent news for the MAI and its members.
MAI inauguration — a great day
Nov 25, 2009 01:10 AM
The Materials Ageing Institute has been inaugurated on Monday November 16th, 2009 by Yves Bamberger, Senior Vice President Corporate EDF R&D and Jacques Regaldo, Adjunct Director of EDF Engineering Division, DPI.
MAI Inauguration
Oct 09, 2009 05:15 PM
The Materials Ageing Institute will be inaugurated on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 2.00pm by Yves Bamberger, Senior Vice President Corporate EDF R&D and Bernard Dupraz, Executive Vice President EDF Production.
MAI Workshop on Lifetime Prediction of LWRs
Aug 18, 2009 05:50 PM
The MAI organizes in April 8-9, 2010 an international workshop on environmentally-assisted cracking. Experts from various countries are invited to discuss prediction methods and to understand environmentally-assisted cracking which represents a limiting factor for the lifetime of light-water reactor components.
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MAI Inauguration
The Materials Ageing Institute has been inaugurated on Monday November 16th, 2009 by Yves Bamberger, Senior Vice President Corporate EDF R&D and Jacques Regaldo, Adjunct Director of EDF Engineering Division, DPI. About 150 utility managers, directors, project leaders, scientists and politics were present for this important event. The new MAI building houses offices, meeting rooms, classrooms and a microscopy laboratory with, among others, the FEI Titan Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM) microscope, currently the most powerful in the world. The MAI contributes to a particular part of plant life management by increasing fundamental knowledge on ageing of materials, providing tools and methodology to support the effort.
From left to right: Dave Modeen (EPRI), Shunichi Suzuki (TEPCO), Jan van der Lee (EDF), Yves Bamberger (EDF) and Jean-Pierre Hutin (EDF).
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