Monday 23 April 2012
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Registration |
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Welcome reception in Weston Room 1 |
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Tuesday 24 April 2012
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| 07:30 |
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Registration
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Welcome and introductorary remarks
Bill Harper, NFCC organising committee chair
Location: Weston Theatre |
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Keynote speaker:
Dr Harold McFarlane, Idaho National Laboratory, US
Technical developments in nuclear fuel cycle
Location: Weston Theatre |
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Keynote speaker:
Ron Cameron, OECD-NEA, France
Trends toward sustainability in nuclear fuel
Location: Weston Theatre |
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| 10:00 |
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Refreshment break, viewing of posters and exhibition - Weston Room 2 & 3 |
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| 10:20 |
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Keynote speaker:
Dr Derek Stork, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK
Technical challenges in realising the nuclear fusion fuel cycle
Location: Weston Theatre |
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| 11:15 |
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Poster and exhibition viewing - Weston Room 2 & 3 |
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| 12:30 |
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Lunch
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| 13:30 |
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Keynote speaker:
David Shropshire, JRC Petten, The Netherlands
Economics of the nuclear fuel cycle
Location: Weston Theatre |
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| 14:10 |
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Delegates move to parallel sessions |
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Weston Theatre
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Conference room 1
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Theme: Fuel / front end
Chairman: Andy Worral, NNL |
Theme: Alternative SNF Management
Chairman: Bruce Hanson, NNL |
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Synthesis of Uranium dioxide
microspheres by water and
nitrate extraction from uranyl
-ascorbate sols
M Brykala, A Deptula,
W Lada, T Olczak,
D Wawszczak,
A GChmielewwski
Institute of Nuclear
Chemistry and Technology,
Poland
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PRISM: the solution for the
UK's plutonium
David Powell, Eric Loewen
GE-Hitachi, UK |
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A review of the experimental
investigations into the diffusion
coefficient of fission gases in
nuclear fuel
M Gentile, T Abram
School of MACE,
University of Manchester,
UK
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Melt refining of metallic fast
reactor fuel
C Humrickhouse & J Walter
Texas A&M University & TerraPower, US
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MOX in reactors: present
and future
M Arslan, Remi Coulon,
JP Gros & A Marincic,
E De Villele
AREVA NC & AREVA NP,
France |
Inductive heating for partitioning
of fission products from spent
nuclear fuel
N Shcherbina, N Kivel,
I Gûnther-Leopold, D Kulik
Department of Nuclear
Energy and Safety,
Switzerland
N Shcherbina, N Kivel,
I Gûnther-Leopold,
D Kulik Department
of Nuclear Energy and Safety,
Switzerland |
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The characteristics of spent
AGR fuel and what we can
learn from spent LWR fuel?
G Rossiter
NNL, UK
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Spent fuel contingency: drying
A Allen
Sellafield, UK |
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| 16:15 |
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Refreshment break, viewing of posters and exhibition - Weston Room 2 & 3 |
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Weston Theatre
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Conference Room 1
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Impact of Gd01.5 phase
transitions on the
processability of Gd01.5
and UO2-Gd01.5 blends
JB Henderson
Netzch Instruments
North America, US
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Spent fuel contingency:
canister development
A Allen
Sellafield, UK |
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| 17:00 |
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Analysis of the UK Nuclear
Fission Roadmap using
the ORION fuel cycle
modelling code
R Gregg, NNL, UK |
The long term pond storage
of sensitised AGR fuel
DJ Potter, CJ Donohoe, BJ Hands
NNL, UK |
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| 17:30 |
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Close of conference day one |
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| 19:00 |
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Pre dinner drinks reception |
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Conference dinner (optional extra) |
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Wednesday 25 April 2012
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| 07:30 |
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Registration
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Keynote speaker:
Professor Timothy Abram, University of Manchester, UK
Advanced reactor systems and associated fuel cycles
Location: Weston Theatre |
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Keynote speaker:
Robin Taylor, NNL, UK
Advanced fuel recycling processes
Location: Weston Theatre |
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| 09:20 |
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Keynote speaker:
Professor Laurence Harwood, University of Reading, UK
Selective ligands for actinide-lanthanide separations
Location: Weston Theatre |
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| 10:00 |
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Refreshment break, viewing of posters and exhibition – Weston room 2 & 3 |
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Delegates move to parallel sessions |
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Weston Theatre
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Conference Room 1
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Theme: Advanced U-Pu fuel cycles
Chairman: Laurence Harwood
University of Reading, UK |
Theme: Decommissioning
and waste management
Chairman: George Elder,
Onet, UK |
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Novel approaches to the
separation of trivalent
actinides from used
nuclear fuel
T Todd, INL, US |
Trajectory tracking control
of a wheeled mobile robot
used in decommissioning
B Lennox, A Stancu,
University of Manchester,
UK & R Solea, University
of Galati, Romania |
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Towards a new GANEX
2nd cycle process for
the co separation of TRU
K Bell, M Carrott,
C Gregson, R Taylor,
NNL, UK
C Carpentier, A Geist,
D Magnusson,
U Müllich,
Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany
X Hérès, CEA, France,
R Malmbeck JRC,
Germany,
G Moldolo,
A Wilden,
Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Germany |
Synthesis of perovskite (CaTi03,
component of SYNROC C)
by complex sol gel process
for nuclear waste immobilization
T Smolinski, A Deptula, T Olczak,
W Lada, AG Chmielewski
& F Zaza , INCT, Poland
& ENEA, Italy |
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Demonstration of a 1st cycle
SANEX process for the
selective recovery of trivalent
actinides from purex raffinate
using a CyMe4BTBP
TOGDA solvent
A Wilden, C Schreinemachers,
F Sadowski, SGülland,
M Sypula, G Modolo,
Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Germany, D Magnusson,
A Geist, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology,
Germany,
F Lewis, L Harwood,
M Hudson, University
of Reading, UK |
Dealing with the UK's natural
and low enriched uranic
residue legacy
V Nixon, Springfield Fuels,
UK |
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Mitigating the climate change
by improving actinides
recycling: Towards a
sustainable nuclear energy
C Poinssot, B Boullis CEA,
France |
Life cycle assesment of
the decommissioning of
nuclear facilities
S Wallbridge, A Banford,
A Azapagic
University of Manchester,
UK |
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ACSEPT: Reprocessing for
advanced fuel cycles
S Bourg, PH Guilbald,
N Ouvrier, CEA, France,
S Bouvet, ALCAN, France,
C Cassayre, CNRS, France,
G De Angelis, ENEA, Italy,
C Ekberg, Chalmers,
Sweden,
AG Esperartero, CIEMAT,
Spain, A Geist,
Karlsruhe Insitute
of Technology, Germany,
M Harrison, C Rhodes,
R Taylor, NNL, UK,
R Malmbeck, ITU,
Germany,
G Moldolo,
Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Germany |
Particles: a decommissioning
legacy
P Cartwright, Dounreay,
UK |
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Lunch, viewing of posters and exhibition - Weston room 2 & 3 |
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Delegates move to parallel sessions |
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Weston Theatre
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Conference Room 1
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Theme: Fuel cycle management,
strategy and fusion
Chairman: Colin Rhodes (NDA) |
Theme: Waste management
Chairman: Anthony Banford
(NNL) |
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Challenges for worldwide
nuclear programmes:
Some major technical
and economic constraints
on responses by various
fuel cyclesChallenges for worldwide
nuclear programmes:
Some major technical
and economic constraints
on responses by various
fuel cycles
G Butler, Integrated Decision
Management, UK,
S Howell, P Johnson,
S Hall, D Liu, P Duck,
University of Manchester,
UK |
Further development of a liquid
jet sludge re-suspension model
G McArthur, Sellafield, UK |
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Future UK nuclear fuel cycle
considerations and development
requirements
T Semeraz, R Glenville, NNL, UK |
Hot isostatically pressed wasteforms for future nuclear fuel cycles
E Maddrell, NNL, UK
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Power Fuel Fabrication scenario in India: present and future
H Rao, RN Jayaraj, Nuclear Fuel Complex, India |
Characterising highly active nuclear
waste simulants
N Paul, Institute of Particle
Science and Engineering, UK |
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| 15:45 |
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Refreshments, viewing of posters and exhibition - Weston room 2&3 |
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Weston Theatre
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Conference Room 1
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| 16:00 |
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Fuelling fusion reactors
S Knipe, M Kovari, L Garzotti,
R Kemp, A Parracho, M Valovic,
Culham Centre for Fusion
Energy, UK |
Investigation of water adsorption
on metal oxide surfacesunder conditions representative
of PuO2 storage containers
P Murphy, C Boxall,
Lancaster University,
UK, R Taylor, NNL, UK |
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The JET Deuterium-Tritium fuel cycle
S Knipe, PD Brennan, JET EFDA, Culham Centre for Fusion
Energy, UK
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Measuring the erosion and
dispersion of sediment
beds in impinging jet ballast
tanks using ultrasonic profilers
T Hunter, T Unsworth,
S Biggs, School of Process,
Environmental and Materials
Engineering, University of Leeds,
UK, J Peakall School of Earth
and Environment, University
of Leeds, UK |
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| 17:00 |
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Delegates move to Weston Theatre |
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| 17:05 |
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YGN proze presentation |
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| 17:15 |
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Panel discussion |
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| 17:35 |
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Closing remarks |
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Conference closes |
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Poster papers
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Fuel/front end |
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Crystal growth kinetics of uranium peroxide
S Planteur, M Bertrand, CEA, France, E Plasari, ENSIC, France, B Courtaud, F Auger, Areva, France |
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Large eddy simulation of particle-laden flows in a channel at variable Reynolds number
D Njobuenwu, M Fairweather
Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, UK |
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Alternative SNF management |
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The long term storage of AGR fuel
D Hambley, Z Hodgson, NNL, UK |
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Elucidating the recipe for atmosphereric degredation
F Lydiatt, S Lyon, R Lindsay, University of Manchester, UK
W Walters, NNL, UK, AG Thomas, Photon Science Institute, UK |
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Spent fuel contingency: strategy
A Allen, Sellafield, UK |
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Fuels and fission product clean up for molten salt actinide recycler and transmuter system with and without Th support
V Ignatiev, NRC-Kurchatov Institute, Russia, M Kormilitsyn SSC Research Institute of Atomic Reactors, Russia |
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Advanced U-Pu fuel cycles |
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Uranyl(VI) complexes with diamide ligands
S Wahu, CEA Saclay, France, JC Berhet, P Thuéry, CEA/Saclay, France, R Guillot, LSOM - ICMMO, France, C Bresson, CEA Saclay, France |
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Hydrolysis of hydroxamic acid complexants in the presence of non-oxidising metal ions
F Andrieux, S Edwards, C Boxall, Lancaster University, UK, R Taylor, NNL, UK |
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From BTBPs to BTPhens: Improving the properties of actinide-selective solvent extraction reagents by ligan pre-organization
F Lewis, L Harwood, M Hudson, M Drew, University of Reading, UK,
F Lewis, L Harwood, M Hudson, M Drew, University of Reading, UK,
J Desreaux, G Vidick, N Bouslimani, University of Liège, Belgium, G Modolo, A Wilden, M Sypula, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany & TH Vu, JP Simonin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
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Decommissioning |
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A near passive analogue approach to caesium-137 analysis for decommissioning applications
AJ Parker, C Boxall, M Joyce, Lancaster University, UK
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Surface decontamination by photocatalysis
R Wilbraham, C Boxall, Lancaster University, UK, R Taylor, NNL, UK |
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FC management, strategy and fusion |
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The JET Deuterium Tritium fuel cycle
S Knipe, PD Brennan, JET-EFDA, Culham Science Centre, UK |
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Waste management |
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Nuclear waste suspensions – measurements using acoustic and optical measurements
H Rice, University of Leeds, UK |
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The development of metallised membranes for radioanalytical separation processes
M Bromley, C Boxall, Lancaster University, UK |
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Thermal conductivity and mechanical strength of glass graphite composite encapsulate Tri-isotopic fuel particles
N Hamodi, T Abram, MACE, University of Manchester, UK |
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Mechanisms of fixed contamination of commonly engineered surfaces
R Woodhouse, C Boxall, R Wilbraham, Lancaster University, UK |