Tuesday 15 / 02 / 05

Plenary Session ROOM 1

09:00 - 09:50

"USA & CHINA: The new frontiers for nuclear energy?" Walter Hill, Director of Editorial Services, Nuclear Energy Institute, on the USA; Zhang Zouyi, Director of the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), on China

09:50 - 10:10

"Crisis communications: The world, not the neighborhood!" Malcolm Crick, Head of the Incident and Emergency Centre, IAEA

10:10 - 10:30

"A new generation of information centre." Catherine Rabbé, VISIATOME Director, Commissiariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break, poster discussions and technical demonstrations.
Posters will be on display throughout the conference in Room 2.

Plenary Session ROOM 1

11:00 - 11:15

" The importance of effective communications." Juhani Santaholma, NucNet President, Switzerland

11:15 - 12:00

Panel debate with moderator: "Society and nuclear: Is the dialogue really making progress?" Moderator: Gaston Meskens, SCK.CEN, Belgium. Simon Webster, European Commission, Research Directorate General (research projects on social aspects of waste management); Carmen Ruiz López, OECD/NEA Forum on Stakeholder Confidence; Claude Fischer, Secretary General, Confrontations Europe (organiser of the European Waste Management Conference)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 - 17:15

Parallel workshops with moderator

ROOM 5

Workshop 1 - Stakeholder dialogue
(Co-organised by Women in Nuclear, WIN)
Moderator: Susan Brissette, Bruce Power, Canada

"AREVA’s dialogue and consensus-building policy." Virginie Ryan-Taix, AREVA, France

"Stakeholder involvement in the Dounreay Site Restoration Plan (DSPP)." June Love, UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)

"WIN public confidence: Women in Nuclear." Junko Nishimura, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

"Comparative study of various risks for life as expressed by LLe (Loss of Life Expectancy) in Japan and practical use of its results for PA activities." Junko Ogawa, Japan Atomic Power Company, Japan

ROOM 3

Workshop 2 - Communications strategy: New issues, new approaches
Moderator: Karen Daifuku, OECD/NEA

"The contribution of marketing and human sciences to communications on nuclear." Alain Bucaille, AREVA, France

"Positioning nuclear: Strategic alliances and positive differences." Craig Pearce, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)

"International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century -
A communication challenge in the making." Karen Daifuku, OECD/NEA and Fanny Bazile, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA), France with Peter Rickwood, IAEA

"How to build the image of a nuclear power plant?" Erzsébet Pazstor, Paks NPP, Hungary

ROOM 1

Workshop 3 - Communication or education: Young people as a target audience
Moderator: Torsten Bohl, Ringhals, Sweden

"Youngsters about nuclear energy: Year 2004 poll." Radko Istenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

"Programme for developing relationships between young people and teachers." Nathalie Guillaume, Commissiariat à l' Energie Atomique (CEA), France

"How young nuclear specialists in Hungary communicate." Katalin Kulacsy, Atomic Energy Research Institute (KFKI), Hungary

"Energy and environment: A COGEMA project at the La Hague Site." Laurence Pernot, AREVA, France

"Sunray Project - Nuclear issues online course." Tomi Alakoski, Economic Information Office, Finland

ROOM 5

Workshop 4 - Crisis communications - Getting you and your message across

Closed session IAEA:

Nuclear communicators can regularly come into contact with journalists and anti-nuclear campaigners. They need to be prepared for such encounters and be able to deal cautiously with often sensitive issues and in a professional way.

In this workshop, participants will be given useful tips by expert consultants on how to handle crisis communication. The session will also include a media skills exercise using video recordings, where participants will be trained in how to appear live on camera.

15:45 - 16:15

Coffee break, poster discussions and technical demonstrations.
Posters will be on display throughout the conference in Room 2.

16:15 - 17:15

Parallel workshops with moderators (continuation)

19:00

Cocktail reception and Gala Dinner at Maison de la Chimie
(ground floor)