BULGARIAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY

International Conference NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE

10- 13 September, 2018 , Garden of Eden Resort, Sveti Vlas

With the support of

Kozloduy NPP www.bgns.bg BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE

Objectives The conference will provide to academic and industrial experts a common forum to present and discuss the news and issues concerning nuclear technology and nuclear applications. The “Nuclear energy for the people” conference aims also to bring together nuclear specialists, to present their results and to raise the trust of the general public to the achievements and use of nuclear science and technologies. Participants Bulgarian and foreign professionals, experts and researches, related to the nuclear energy are invited to take part. The educational policy is a key element in the building of public engagement/acceptance toward nuclear applications including energy production. It is expected that the experts will present new national and international results, as well as trends of Horizon 2020 projects. The conference environment shall help in creating and engaging more young professionals in nuclear engineering and applications. Also supported by: Main Topics Advances in Nuclear Education and Training Risk Engineering Ltd Nuclear in Medicine NPP – New build NPP Safety NPP Lifetime Management

NPP Decommissioning ENPRO CONSULT Ltd RAW Management QUANTUM Engineering Ltd Safety Culture Radiation protection Regulatory Issues THETA CONSULT Ltd

BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE Time schedule

Monday, 10.09.2018 16:00 – 18:30 Registration Organizing Committee 19:00 - 19:30 Invited speech Krassimira Ilieva, BgNS, Chair 19:30 - 21:30 Welcome Reception Irena Jordanova, BULATOM Tuesday, 11.09.2018 08:00 – 09:00 Registration Georgieva, BNRA 09:00 – 11:00 Opening Session Petya Vryashkova, INRNE-BAS 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break Mariana Atanasova, BgNS 11:30 – 13:00 Session 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch, Hotel Restaurant 14:30 – 16:00 Session 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break Registration 16:30 – 17:30 Session 17:30 – 18:30 POSTERS out of competition Conference e-mail: [email protected] Wednesday, 12.09.2018

9:00 – 11:00 Oral Young Generation Competition Information 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 – 12:00 Posters Young Generation Competition BgNS, Bulgaria, 1784 , 12:00 – 13:30 Session 72 Tzarigradsko Chaussee Blvd 13:30 – 14:30 Lunch, Hotel Restaurant Mariana Atanassova 14:30 – 17:30 Excursion to The Old Nessebar Town 20:00 – 24:00 Gala diner, Hotel Restaurant Mobil +359 878 285525 Awarding the best YG presentations. [email protected] Thursday, 13.09.2018 www.bgns.bg 9:30 – 11:00 Session

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:30 Session 12:30 Closing of the conference BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE Programme Committee

Members / in ALFABET order / Pavlin GROUDEV, Bulgaria, Chair

Alexei MIASSOEDOV, Germany Lyuben MARINOV, Bulgaria

Aleksey Aleksiev, BNRA Lyubomir PIRONKOV, Bulgaria Marin KONSTANTIN, Romania Anelia KLISSAROVA, Bulgaria Mladen MITEV, Bulgaria Andreas IKONOMOPOULOS, Greece Nikolay GERASKIN, Russia Anton CHAUSHEVSKI, Macedonia Nikola CAVLINA, Croatia Antonio BALLESTEROS-AVILA, EC Patricia PLA FREIXA, EC Borislav DIMITROV, France Roberto PASSALACQUA, EC Dimiter BALABANSKI, Romania Sandro PACI, Italy Eugenijus USPURAS, Lithuania Sevostyan BECHTA, Sweden Igor KOZLOV, Ukraine Soeren KLIEM, Germany

Jean-Michel RUGGIERI, France Stanislav GEORGIEV , Bulgaria

Jiri ZDAREK, Czech Republic Vladimir KUZNETSOV, IAEA

Kalin FILIPOV, Bulgaria Valeria HADJIDEKOVA, Bulgaria

Leon CIZEJI, Slovenia Victor KOLYKHANOV, Ukraine

Luis Enrique HERRANZ PUEBLA, Spain Zoltán HÓZER, Hungary BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE

Authors information The authors should submit extended abstracts of up to 2 pages (maximum 4000 symbols). The abstract should contain: 1) paper title, 2) authors’ full names and addresses, 3) name, address, phone and e-mail of the author to whom subsequent correspondence should be directed, 4) five keywords in order of importance. The abstract should clearly state background, objectives, results and conclusions. It may contain figures, tables and pictures. The Organizing Committee will inform you about the acceptance of your paper for oral or poster presentation.

Paper publication The papers accepted for presentation on the conference are eligible for publishing in the BgNS Science and Technology Journal. Refer to www.bgns.bg for more information.

Young Authors’ Competition for Best Presentation The young authors, not older than 35 years, being first author could take part in Young Authors’ Competition (YAC) for Best Presentation. Participants who have being ranked first in the two previous editions of the YAC are not allowed to take part in the Young Authors’ Competition.

The authors should submit full text of the presentation of up to 6 pages. The paper should contain: 1) paper title, 2) name, address, phone and e-mail of the first author, 3) authors’ names and full address, 4) five keywords in order of importance, 5) abstract, and 6) full text. The presentations should state clearly background, objectives, results and conclusions. The Competition Commission will review and evaluate the presented papers. You will be informed about the acceptance of your paper for oral presentation at the conference. The rest of the papers could participate in the competition for best Poster award. The best presentations nominated by both, the conference participants and Competition Commission, will be awarded. The evaluation criteria in the competition are: correspondence with the conference title, topicality, clear statement of objectives, subject, results and conclusions, understandability, attractiveness and visualization, balance between text and images.

Working language: English BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE Participation Fee

• The Participation fee is 280 EUR. • Students participation fee is 150 EUR.

The Participation fee includes conference services and materials, coffee break service, Welcome reception, Gala dinner, lunches and excursion to the Old Nessebar town. • Accompanying person fee is 85 EUR. The fee includes Welcome reception, Gala dinner, lunches and excursion to the Old Nessebar town. Payment Participation fee should be paid via bank transfer: Bulgarian Nuclear Society, UniCredit Bulbank IBAN: BG92 UNCR 7630 1208 9962 05, BIC: UNCRBGSF Specify: your name, BgNS conference 2018

Deadline information: Submission of Participation form and Abstract 15.08.2018 Submission of Full paper for Young Authors Competition 01.08.2018 Notification of acceptance for Young Authors Competition 15.08.2018 Notification of acceptance for paper presentation 20.08.2018 Submission of Participation form only 15.08.2018 BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE

Accommodation

The BgNS conference will be held at

Garden of Eden Resort ***** Your booking for hotel offers special reduced rates for the conference: Garden of Eden Resort Single room 55 BGN Double room 78 BGN will be guaranteed if done before Studio in apart hotel for 1 person 63 BGN 15.08.2018. We encourage you to make Studio in apart hotel for 2 persons 78 BGN your reservation AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Apartment of two rooms and two baths 126 BGN for 2 persons Preferred Reservation Method Apartment of two rooms and two baths 145 BGN By e-mail: for 3 persons Hotel Suite for 1 person 93 BGN [email protected] Apartment of one room for 1 person 91 BGN •Specify in the booking: Apartment of one room for 2 persons 96 BGN for BgNS conference

The price is per night and includes breakfast, parking, Wi-Fi in the rooms, eighth outdoor pools, one indoor pool, fitness, tourist insurance and VAT 9%.

How to reach Garden of Eden Resort

Garden of Eden - 5 km Garden of Eden - Nessebar 12 km Garden of Eden - Airport 35 km Garden of Eden - Burgas 45 km Garden of Eden - Sofia 445 km by car GPS: Hotel transfer service : 42.7067955611966, 27.7772489190102 Burgas airport to Garden Hotel, max 3 per. - 28 EUR Driving along the route Sunny Beach – Sveti Vlas on exit of Sveti Vlas village you can will find on to Garden Hotel, max 3 per. - 46 EUR the right side the entrance of Garden of Eden You can order to: [email protected] Resort. SEE YOU AT THE CONFERENCE IN BULGARIA! BgNS’s NUCLEAR ENERGY FOR THE PEOPLE Social •Excursion to the Old Nessebar Town Wednesday, 12.09.2018, 14:30 – 17:30

Ancient Theatre Nessebar •It’s an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Coast, located in . It is included in its list of World Heritage Sites (UNESCO, 1983). •The older part of Nessebar bears evidence of occupation by a variety of different civilizations over the course of its existence.

Originally a Thracian settlement, the city is known as Menebria or Melsambria at the beginning of the 6th century BC. At the beginning of the 6th century BC the town became a Greek colony. (Greek) was an important trading center from then on and a rival of (). The Bulgarian version of the name, Nessebar or Mesebar, has The capture of the town by the Turks in 1453 been attested since the 11th century. marked the start of its decline, but its architectural heritage remained and was enriched in the 19th century by the construction of wooden houses in style typical for the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast during this period. Nessebar was developed as a key Bulgarian since the beginning of the 20th century. After 1925 a new town part was built and the historic Old Town was restored.