INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Technical Meeting on
“Current Status and Future Prospects of Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle and fuels” (TM-LMFR-2005)
at
Central Institute of Improvement of Qualification (TSIPK), Obninsk, Russian Federation
with cooperation from Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) Obninsk, Russian Federation
3-7 (Oct) 2005
Scientific secretaries
Ganguly Chaitanyamoy, Yury Busurin and Hosadu Parameswara Nawada Venue: Obninsk, Russian Federation
Conducted within the frame of IAEA’s Technical Working Group on Fuel Cycle Options and Spent Fuel Management, Technical Working Group on Fast Reactor and ADS, Innovative Nuclear Power Reactors and Fuel Cycles’ (INPRO) and IPPE, Russian Federation Page 2
INFORMATION SHEET AND CALL FOR PAPERS
1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Nuclear energy is emerging as one of the major emission-free sources of primary energy for meeting the ever increasing demand of electricity, large scale production of hydrogen fuel for transportation sector and process heat for desalination of sea water.. The key to the successful growth and sustainability of nuclear power and nuclear fuel cycle activities in the 21 st Century will depend on factors like safety, economics, waste minimisation and environmental protection, efficient utilisation of nuclear raw materials, like uranium and thorium, and proliferation-resistance of nuclear materials. For this, the current reactor technologies and fuel cycle strategies must be progressively replaced by innovative reactor designs and fuel cycle approaches with features, which increase the operating safety of units, simplify the problems associated with radioactive waste and nuclear material proliferation, increase the competitiveness of nuclear power plants and win the confidence of the public and investors. Considering the positive experience accumulated over the years, in designing and operating sodium-cooled fast reactors and the renewed interest in LMFR reactor concepts and fuel cycles as part of the recent international initiatives efforts such as ‘Innovative Nuclear Power Reactors and Fuel Cycles’ (INPRO) and ‘Generation IV International Forum’ (GIF), many IAEA Member States (Russian Federation, Japan, France, India, China and Republic of Korea) are evaluating LMFR reactors and their fuel cycle options as one of the essential means for sustainable nuclear power development. In addition, the need for preserving the LMFR technology base developed in France, Russian Federation, Japan, India, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as information generated in other countries, has also been a subject of interest for the Agency.
At the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Technical Working Group on Nuclear Fuel Cycles Options and Spent Fuel Management (TWG-NFCO), held at Vienna from 28 to 30 May 2003, it was suggested to hold a Technical Meeting (TM) on “Current Status and Future Prospects of Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle” (TM-LMFR-2005). The idea behind conducting the TM is to cover the recent progress that has been made for the last three years in terms of technological progress and in planning future and qualification facilities for LMR fuel-cycle. TWG-NFCO considered it timely that this progress should be presented and discussed. Likewise, the TWG-FR and INPRO have also recommended that all aspects of LMFR fuel cycle should be discussed and documented together with innovations in fast reactors.
Recognizing of the numerous activities being pursued in many Member States and to support and to enhance the capacity of the interested Member States in developing advanced fuel cycle systems, the Agency is convening a TM on this topic.
2. OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE
The main goal of the TM is to clarify present status and future prospects of Innovations in
LMFRs fuel cycle, in general and highlighting LMFR reactor physics and fuel cycle issues, including safety, waste management, environment, economics and proliferation resistance issues of INS system based on LMFR including partitioning and transmutation aspects of LMFR Status and programme of conventional, advanced and directions for innovations in LMFR Fuels including non-oxide and metallic fuels and their methods of fabrication, out-of- pile properties, in-pile performance, irradiation-testing and post-irradiation examination.
The objective of the TM is to achieve a comprehensive and up-to-date review of liquid metal cooled reactor fuel-cycle development. The TM is calling for state-of-the art, in-depth contributions from scientists directly involved in these R&D activities. Page 3
3. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The programme of the TM will include presentations addressing the following subjects: Concepts of fast reactor fuel cycles implemented in various countries; fabrication, out-of-pile properties, in-pile performance, irradiation-testing and post-irradiation examination - Approaches to the procedure of fuel cycle closure; time required for realization of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor closed fuel cycle in various countries; - Technological features of fabrication and reprocessing of various types of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel; - Problems concerning economics, environment protection and non-proliferation characteristics of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel cycle and possible technological ways of their solution including knowledge conservation on LMR fuel cycle - International cooperation in solving problems of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel cycle. Role of IAEA. The provisional programme encompasses the following three Topical Areas: 1. Concepts of fast reactor fuel cycles 2. Technology of fabrication and reprocessing of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor nuclear fuel 3. Prospects of international cooperation in the implementation of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel cycle. Role of the IAEA
Panel discussions: 1. “Necessity and possible procedures of closure of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor fuel cycle in various countries. Time required for its realization” 2. “Proper economics, environmental protection and non-proliferation – the main goals of liquid metal-cooled fast reactor closed fuel cycle.” 3. “Possible technological ways of reaching these goals”
4. PARTICIPATION
Participation is solicited from governmental, national and international organisations, research centres, universities, and industries. To ensure maximum effectiveness in the exchange of information, the participants should be persons actively involved in the subject of the meeting. Participants should complete the attached Participation Form as soon as possible and send it to the competent official authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs or National Atomic Energy Authority) for transmission to the IAEA Secretariat, to arrive not later than 24th June 2005. The designation of a participant will be accepted only if forwarded by the Government of an IAEA Member State or by an Organisation invited to participate. The meeting is, in principle, open to all officially designated persons. The Agency, however, reserves the right to limit participation should this become necessary due to limitations imposed by the available seating capacity. It is therefore recommended that interested persons take the necessary steps to obtain their official designation as early as possible. A preliminary meeting Agenda will be sent to the participants when the completed Participation Forms are received. 5. LOCATION OF THE MEETING, SITE VISITS AND SCHEDULE
The Technical Meeting will be held at the Central Institute of Improvement of Qualification, Obninsk, Russian Federation from 03 to 07 Oct 2005. A block of guestrooms will be available to delegates at a Page 4 preferred conference rate. Details can be obtained from the Local Organizing Secretary of TM- LMFR-2005 [Mr. Alexander Bryusov, Email: [email protected] or [email protected] , Address: Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE), 1, Bondarenko sq., 249033 Obninsk, Kaluga region, Russian Federation]. Field trips for invited guests to the IPPE and other nuclear facilities will be held on 7th Oct 2005. More detailed information will be circulated to the participants in due course of time. 6. MEETING ORGANIZATION
Official correspondence with regard to the technical aspects of the meeting should be addressed to the Scientific Secretary of the meeting: Mr. Chaitanyamoy Ganguly Head Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Section (NFC&MS) Department of Nuclear Energy International Atomic Energy Agency P.O. Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-2600-22766 or 22765 Fax: +43-1-2600-7 Email: [email protected]
Mr. Hosadu Parameswara Nawada Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Materials Section (NFC&MS) Department of Nuclear Energy International Atomic Energy Agency P. O. Box 100, Wagramer Strasse 5 A-1400 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43 1 2600 22771 Fax: +43 1 260029671 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] (secretary to the Scientific Secretary)
For all local organizational problems of the TM, please contact the Local Organizing Secretary Mr. Alexander Bryusov Institute for Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) 1, Bondarenko sq., 249033 Obninsk, Kaluga region Russian Federation Phone: Tel: ++7 08439 98 212 Fax: +7 0843968225/08439 54585 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
7. SUMMARIES AND PAPERS
The Participation Form (see attachment) should be submitted through the appropriate government channels with an indication of the intention to present a paper. Participation Forms must be transmitted to the Agency in time to reach the Agency by 24th June 2005, together with a copy of a one-page abstract. The abstract will be used to select papers (based on coherence with the objectives and scope of the Technical Meeting, novelty and significance of results, clarity of presentation, etc.) and to establish the final programme. Authors will be notified of the status of their paper by the IAEA.
The submission of a paper implies that the author intends to participate in the meeting if the paper is accepted, and to provide the IAEA (Mr. H.P. Nawada or one of the scientific secretary) at the Technical Meeting with a camera-ready original of the paper for publication by the IAEA in the proceedings after the Technical Meeting. A digital version of the paper on a disk (or CD ROM) in MS Page 5
Word format is desirable to facilitate editing and publication of the proceedings. All papers apart from invited reviews - must present original work; they should not have been published elsewhere.
Detailed instructions for preparation of the manuscript for publication will be provided to authors upon notification of acceptance of their paper. Authors should send in advance the presentation material in electronic form.
Authors of accepted papers will be allowed approximately 20 minutes for their presentations, including a discussion period. Presenters of poster papers will provide an oral discussion at designated times. A full paper (4 to 10 pages in length, double-spaced, and including figures, graphs, and/or tables) will be published by IAEA in the Technical Document. Further instructions will be sent directly to authors of accepted papers as soon as the selection has been made. Both an overhead and a video projector, and a screen for viewgraphs will be provided. Any additional equipment requirements should be noted on the attached Participation Form. The meeting agenda will be provided to the participants sufficiently in advance of the meeting for them to plan their presentation.
8. WORKING LANGUAGE
The working language of the meeting will be English. All communications, abstracts and papers must be in this language. It is understood that the Local Organisers intend to provide Russian / English translation where necessary.
9. VISAS
In accordance with an agreement with the IAEA, the Government of Russian Federation will issue necessary visas to the meeting participants. A letter of invitation to the meeting will be sent to all meeting participants, who will in turn be required to send the letter of invitation along with an appropriate VISA application form to the nearest Russian embassy in their respective countries. Visas may take over 2 weeks to receive so allow an appropriate amount of time.
10. EXPENDITURES
No registration fee will be charged to the participants. The costs for the organisation of the meeting are born by the IPPE, Russian Federation
The Agency has limited funds for some of participants especially mainly from developing and financially difficult countries.
11. PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of the meeting will be prepared by the Agency as soon as possible after the meeting. Page 6
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INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
Technical Meeting on “Current Status and Future Prospective of Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle” (TM-LMFR-2005)”
at Central Institute of Improvement of Qualification (TSIPK), Obninsk, Russian Federation
with cooperation from IPPE, Obninsk, Russian Federation
3-7 Oct 2005
To be sent before 24th June 2005 to the competent official authority (Ministry of Foreign Affairs or National Atomic Energy Agency) for transmission to one of the Scientific Secretaries Mr. Hosadu P. Nawada, International Atomic Energy Agency, P.O. Box 100 Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, Fax: +43 1 260029671 (e-mail: [email protected])
PARTICIPATION FORM
Family Name All initials of given name Mr./Ms.
Institution Full Address
Tel. No. Fax. No. E-mail: Nationality Designating government or Organization Mailing address (if different from address of institution):
Do you wish to present a paper(s)? Yes………………..…No…………………
Title of Paper(s):
(A one-page abstract of each paper offered should be attached to this form before forwarding)
Participant Accompanying Person City and Country of Birth Full Name Date of Birth City, Country, and Date of Birth Home Address Home Address Passport Number and Expiration Date Relationship to Participant Citizenship Citizenship _____Male ______Female