The International Conference on Nuclear Criticality
19-22 September 2011
Edinburgh, Scotland
Preliminary technical programme
1. Development of Standards and Assessment Methodology
- guides, standards, handbooks,
- general methodology developments for fuel fabrication, storage, reprocessing, transport, decommissioning etc.
- 'special' methodology developments, e.g. for fuel fabrication & transport of advanced reactor fuels >5w/o enrichment, risk informed methods,
- optioneering studies/methods
- consistency of safety margins, integration with overall facility safety cases, 'fit-for purpose' safety cases
2. Operational Practise
- practical considerations in the implementation of criticality control
- selection of methods of control, measurement techniques, compliance issues
- operator training, human factors, criticality audits and inspections
- lessons learnt from operating experience, incidents
3. Criticality Codes and Nuclear Data
- improved user interface/checking tools
- testing of new codes & data
- improvements to nuclear data
- identification of experimental needs
4. Criticality Experiments
- new evaluations of existing experiments
- new experiments
- future programmes
5. Uncertainty Analysis
- derivation of code/nuclear data bias and its uncertainty
- sensitivity analysis, selection of representative validation benchmarks
- assessment of manufacturing/operational uncertainties
6. Analysis of Criticality Accidents and Incidents
- modelling of criticality excursions
- analysis of causes of accidents/incidents, lessons learnt for
- emergency response planning
- accident detection and alarm systems: adequacy/omission studies
7. Burnup Credit
- modelling issues, code development, validation
- application & implementation, bounding assumptions, burn-up measurements, compliance issue
- future uses, e.g. disposal, new build
8. Waste Management Issues
- waste inventories, variability, characterisation requirements, special issues
- design of waste packaging, design of waste packaging processes,
- assessment of retrieval/conditioning/packaging/surface storage operations
- design of disposal facilities, assessment of disposal operations, assessment of post-closure phase
9. Professional Development Issues
- maintaining/building capability, national programmes, core competencies, training programmes
- international coordination/collaboration
- meeting future challenges, e.g. new build
For more information, please visit the official ICNC2011 website.
Last reviewed: 23 May 2011