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ENS Topical Meeting: Research Reactor Fuel Management 2004

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Join Us to Celebrate the FRM-II Nuclear Start-up Registration Deadline: 12 February 2004

 

Celebrating the start-up of Bavaria’s FRM-II reactor – and the boost it will give to international leading-edge neutron beam research – will be a major highlight of the 2004 annual ENS topical meeting on Research Reactor Fuel Management (RRFM).

This year’s RRFM – taking place from 21 to 24 March at the Forum Hotel in Munich – draws inspiration from FRM-II to offer a very special programme with international appeal. Kicking off the meeting will be an impressive line-up of invited speakers who will focus on FRM-II as well as the significance of research reactors to Generation IV and the European 6th Framework Programme (FP6).

Speakers include:

• the FRM-II Team from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, members of which will speak on ‘Neutron Research and Applications at FRM-II’;

• Hans Forsström of DG Research at the European Commission, who will address ‘The Euratom Framework Programme and European Nuclear Research Infrastructures’;

• Mitchell K. Meyer of the Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, USA, who will focus on ‘The Role of Research Reactors in Support of the Development of the Generation IV Nuclear Systems’; and

• representing the French Atomic Energy Commission, CEA/SACLAY, will be Frank Carré, Pascal Anzieu, Philippe Billot, Philippe Brossard and Gian-Luigi Florini, who will present ‘An Overview of the CEA R&D Programme on Generation IV Nuclear Energy’.

The RRFM 2004 conference programme, presented on 22–23 March, will bring together European expertise not only from France but also Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Serbia. From further a field, there will be speakers from leading institutes and organisations in Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation. Organised into sessions addressing all the significant aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, the conference promises to provide a forum for very stimulating information exchanges.

The Preliminary Programme can be downloaded from the RRFM section of the ENS website now. Please do check the ENS website in mid February, for the Final Programme.

If all of this sparks your interest and you want to join us, please bear in mind that 12 February is the deadline for registrations. A very good reason for registering right away, however, is the exceptional RRFM 2004 post-conference technical tour, to FRM-II on the Garching research campus near Munich. FRM-II, a high flux reactor for neutron research and application is expected to become fully operational later this year. This visit, granted to us with special permission, has limited places. Conference participants can only be accommodated on a first come, first served basis.

Book your place without delay – by downloading your registration form from the RRFM section of the ENS website: http://www.euronuclear.org.

Interested in Exhibiting at RRFM 2004? As is tradition for RRFM Topical Meetings, this year’s event will feature an exhibition. Organised alongside the conference, this offers a perfect opportunity to reach a targeted audience. Information on exhibiting is available under RRFM 2004 at: http://www.euronuclear.org. If you have any questions about attending or exhibiting at ENS RRFM 2004, please contact our conference co-ordinator, Dionne Bosma, by email: rrfm2004@euronuclear.org or telephone: +32 2 505 3054