Events

Day 1 – 2 February 2021

Presentation of SNETP Strategy – Bernard Salha, EDF, SNETP President

Presentation of the vision of SNETP pillars: ESNII, NC2I & NUGENIA – Marc Schyns, SCK-CEN; Józef Sobolewski, NCBJ & Steve Napier, NNL

Panel discussion:

• Michael Chudakov, IAEA
• William Magwood, OECD/NEA
• Sama Bilbao, WNA
• Yves Desbazeille, Foratom
• Rosalinde VAN DER VLIES, DG RTD
• Nicolas Février, EDF

Days 2 & 3 February 2021

TS1 – Long term operation & construction (moderated by Pavel Kral, UJV & Luis Herranz, CIEMAT)

• Implementation of new safety requirements in post-Fukushima period (including LTO considerations) – J. Misak, UJV
• Hydrogen Management – Chaumeix, CNRS & Bentaib, IRSN
• Progress towards simulation of passive safety systems – Michael Montout, EdF
• Presentation of results from the PANAS project – Frances Viereckl, TU Dresden
• Material research for LTO – Concetta Fazio, JRC
• Fluid Structure Interaction: A Multi-Physics Application for Design and LTO Support – F. Roelofs, NRG
• Perspectives and opportunities for LTO in Europe – Andrei Goicea, Foratom
• Leveraging Research and Operational Experience for Plant Upgrades and LTO at Loviisa NPP – Harri Tuomisto, Fortum
• On-going” and/or planned research in the present Spanish context – L.E. Herranz, CIEMAT

TS2 – SMRs (Eric Hanus, CEA & Rob Arnold, BEIS

• Micro-reactors – an overview – Mark Davies, USNC
• NUWARD TM – Eric Hanus, CEA
• EnergyWell – SMR under development in the Czech Republic – Marek Ruščák, CVR
• Execution of first privately funded EU SMR deployment – Kalev Kallemets, Fermi Energia
• ELSMOR – Ville Tulkki, VTT
• Passive safety in SMR – Christophe Herer, IRSN
• Experimental support for SMR passive safety systems – Roberta Ferri, SIET
• Lessons-learned from approval of NuScale SMR – Dom Claudio, NuScale
• Nuclear: the need for radical innovation – Jacopo Buongiorno, MIT
• Advanced Modular Reactors for UK – Zara Hodgson, NIRO

TS3 – Fuel development and fuel cycle efficiency (moderated by Steve Napier, NIRO & Bruno Michel, CEA)

• Developments in Advanced Recycle and Sustainability for Future Fuel Cycle Options – Robin Taylor, UK NNL
• Update on the nuclear data for Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme – Allan Simpson, UK NNL
• Benchmark and improvement of fuel performance codes” – Lelio Luzzi, Politecnico MILANO
• Fully Ceramic Microencapsulated Fuel – Mark Davies, USNC
• Future prospects in Framatome Fuel development and related R&D needs – Guy Gentet, FRAMATOME
• Using a basic research approach to improve fuel performance codes – Marjorie Bertolus, CEA
• IRSN FUEL+ software plateform to simulate fuel behviour in accidental conditions – Gaétan GUILLARD, IRSN
• “Spent fuel characterization and evolution until disposal (SFC)” – Peter Jansson, UPPSALA

TS4 – Innovative and perspective materials solutions (moderated by Lorenzo Malerba, CIEMAT & Karl-Fredrik Nilsson, JRC)

• Additive manufacturing for nuclear applications – P. Aubry, CEA
• Ceramic coatings for nuclear applications – F. Di Fonzo, IIT
• High Entropy Alloys for nuclear applications – A. Weisenburger, KIT
• Alumina forming steels for ATF and GenIV cladding – P. Szakalos, KTH
• SiC/SiC joining for cladding applications – M. Ferraris, Polito
• Advanced online monitoring and NDE for nuclear systems – M. Rabung, FhG IZFP
• Innovation on concrete structures – Miguel Ferreira, VTT & Edgar Bohner, VTT
• A way to innovative polymers for nuclear applications: the MAGAPOL initiative – Marc Kuntz, EDF
• How to introduce new materials in design codes – C. Petesch, CEA

TS5 – Energy Systems, new applications, economy, licensing (moderated by Marc Deffrennes, weCARE & Franck Carré, CEA)

• Role of nuclear in future energy mixes – Kirsty GOGAN, TerraPraxis
• Beyond electrification: ways to tackle difficult to decarbonise sectors – Aiden PEAKMAN, NIRO
• Industrial applications of high temperature reactors and the Horizon 2020 GEMINI+ project – Dominique HITTNER & Michael FÜTTERER, NC2I
• Enabling industrial carbon capture using green hydrogen – Ted MORYTO, CNL
• Green Ammonia – Tobias BIRWE, ThyssenKrupp
• Hybrid Energy Systems – Shannon BRAGG-SITTON, INL
• Potential of SMR technologies for cogeneration and hybrid energy systems – Jean-Michel RUGGIERI, CEA
• HTTR licensing experience and commercial modular HTGR safety design requirements including coupling of process heat applications – Hirofumi OHASHI, JAEA
• Economics of SMRs in cogeneration systems – Alexandre BREDIMAS & Blazej CHMIELARZ, USNC
• Tractebel’s vision on Small Modular Reactors – Technical due diligence and market studies – Anicet TOURÉ, Tractebel

TS6 – Decommissioning & waste treatment (moderated by Erika Holt, VTT & Anthony Banford, NNL

• Fuel cycle closure, D&RDWM – Massimo Sepielli, ENEA, Italy with Sogin and ISIN Regulator views
• Decom waste characterization and tools:
  • MICADO project – Massimo Morichi, CAEN, Italy
  • CHANCE project, Denise Richard, Andra, France
• Decommissioning and pre-disposal waste handling needs, a French perspective – Clement Bosquier, EDF, France
• Decom dismantling PLEIADES project and industry SRA within SHARE project – Christine Georges, CEA, France
• Decommissioning of Ignalina NPP – Dmitrij Ekaterinicev & Jurij Sapoval, INPP, Lithuania
• Sweden’s decommissioning and radwaste perspectives – Andreas Knutsson, Vattenfall, Sweden
• Decom waste minimization:
  • INSIDER project – Daniele Roudil, CEA, France
  • THERAMIN project on thermal treatments – Matti Nieminen, VTT, Finland
• Sellafield Challenges: Steering the Supertanker – David Connelly, Sellafield, UK
• Radwaste joint programs:
  • EURAD ROUTES waste streams and WAC – Elisa Leoni, IRSN, France
  • PREDIS project predisposal waste treatment needs – Erika Holt, VTT, Finland
• Small inventory program needs in decom and waste management – Andrea Rapić, Krško NPP, Slovakia

TS7 – Advanced reactor systems (moderated by Paul Schuurmans, SCK-CEN & Nathan Paterson, Foratom

• Overview of Gen-IV developments and GIF – Kamil Tucek, JRC
• Development of Advanced reactor systems : The MYRRHA Project – Didier De Bruyn, SCK•CEN
• Status and next activities related to the ALFRED project – Michele Frignani, Ansaldo
• HLM reactor research – Paul Schuurmans, SCK•CEN
• H2020 ESFR-SMART project – Konstantin Mikityuk, PSI
• Allegro Project and update on Gas cooled fast reactor (GFR) technology – Branislav Hatala, VUJE, a.s. & Petr Vácha, ÚJV Řež, a. S
• New challenges for the SCWR development – Marketa Krykova, CVR
• Support to MSR technology – Ralph Hania, NRG
• Converter of actinides in a molten salt reactor – Paul Gauthé, CEA & Bertrand Morel, Orano

TS8 – Digitalisation – Modelling and Simulation (moderated by Ferry Roelofs, NRG & Didier Banner, EDF)

• IAEA-EPFL activities on open-source software development – Carlo Fiorina, EPFL, Switzerland
• SALOME-MECA: A structural mechanics open-source simulation platform – Dominique Geoffroy, EDF, France
• The role of high fidelity numerical simulations, complementary to experiments, for nuclear reactor safety analyses – Ed Komen, NRG, the Netherlands
• Qualification of System Codes for New Builts – Code requirements and model improvement – Thorsten Hollands, GRS, Germany
• Uncertainty Quantification – Celine Lascar, Framatome, Germany
• Multi-scale Analysis – Antoine Gerschenfeld, CEA, France
• Modelling the effect of stationary perturbations onto the neutron flux in nuclear reactors – Christophe Demaziere, Chalmers, Sweden
• The digital nuclear reactor initiative – Chai Koren, EDF, France
• UK VRD initiative – Albrecht Kyrieleis, Jacobs, UK
• Summary of the session by the moderators