Tuesday 2 May 2006

Session 2

Fuel development, qualification, fabrication and licensing, continued - Chair: P. Lemoine - CEA, France

08.30 - 08.55

Further insight into mechanisms of UMo/Al interaction

F. Mazaudier, C. Proye – CEA, France;
F. Hodaj – LTPCM, France

08.55 - 09.20

Post irradiation examination of uranium-molybdenum dispersion fuel irradiated to high burn-up in NRU

D.F. Sears, K.T. Conlon, J. Mason, A. Davidson, C. Buchanan – AECL, Canada

09.20 - 09.45

Heavy ion irradiation as a method to discriminate research reactor fuels

H. Palancher, P. Martin, C. Sabthier, S. Dubois, C. Valot - CEA, France; N. Wieschalla, A. Röhrmoser, W. Petry - Munich TU, Germany; C. Jarousse, M. Grasse - CERCA, France; R. Tucoulou - ESRF, France

09.45 - 10.10

Neutron powder diffraction of irradiated low-enriched uranium-molybdenum dispersion fuel

K. Conlon, D. Sears - AECL, Canada

10.10 - 10.45

Coffee break and poster viewing

10.45 - 11.10

Some approaches to solving the problem of diminishing the interaction between U-Mo fuel particles and Al matrix

G.A. Birzhevoy, A.D. Karpin, V.V. Popov, V.N. Sugonyaev - IPPE, Russia

11.10 - 11.35

IRIS-3 experiment - status and first results of thickness increase

M. Ripert, S. Dubois, P. Boulcourt, S. Naury, P. Lemoine - CEA, France

11.35 - 12.00

Test of PIN fuel in WWR-M reactor

A.S. Zakharov, G.A. Kirsanov, K.A. Konoplev, L.V. Tedoradze - Russian Academy of Science, Russia; A.V. Vatulin, A.V. Morozov, I.V. Dobrikova, V.B. Suprun - Bochvar Institute, Russia

12.00 - 13.30

Buffet lunch

Session 3

Spent fuel management, back-end options, transportation - Chair: G.Gruber - RWE NUKEM, Germany

13.30 - 13.55

Transport of spent fuel to the US – invited paper

C. Messick, Department of Energy, USA

13.55 - 14.20

Corrosion of aluminium-clad spent re-search reactor fuel in wet storage - invited paper

L. Ramanathan IPEN, Brazil; R. Haddad CNEA, Argentina; P. Adelfang, I. Ritchie - IAEA

14.20– 14.45

Damage degree classification for MTR type spent fuel in wet interim storage

O. Novara, J. Lafuente – CNEA, Argentina; J.E.R. Silva – IPEN, Brazil; J.K Dalidet – CCHEN, Chile; R.L. Sindelar – SRTC, USA

14.45 - 15.10

Research and test reactor fuel reprocessing at the AREVA NC La Hague

E. Hélaine, Ph. Bernard, D. Leach - SGN, France; J-L. Emin, F. Gouyoud - AREVA NC, France

15.10 - 15.40

Coffee break

15.40 - 16.05

Global threat reduction activities at the Y-12 National Security Complex

E. Parker, T. Andes, R.J. Dunavant - BWXT Y12, USA

16.05 - 16.30

Disposition options for legacy plutonium and spent fuel sample materials

G. T. Chandler, N.C. Iyer, K.A. Dunn, R.L. Sindelar, T. Adams - SRNL, USA

16.30 - 16.55

The NCS 45 cask family

F. Hilbert - NCS, Germany

17.20

Close of Day Two