Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation

    14th Information Exchange Meeting

    Hilton San Diego Mission Valley, San Diego, CA, United States
    17-20 October 2016

    Introduction

    The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) organised the fourteenth information exchange meeting on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation (P&T). The meeting was held in San Diego, United States from 17-20 October 2016, hosted by the Idaho National Laboratory in co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

    Background

    Partitioning and transmutation (P&T) are some of the key technologies for reducing the heat, radiotoxicity and volume of radioactive waste produced. Recent developments indicate the need for embedding P&T strategies into advanced fuel cycles considering both waste management and economic issues.

    In order to give experts a forum to present and discuss state-of-the-art developments in the field of P&T, the NEA has been organising biennial information exchange meetings on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation since 1990.

    Scope

    The meeting covered scientific, as well as strategic/policy developments in the field of P&T, such as:  

    • fuel cycle strategies and transition scenarios;
    • role of P&T in potential evolutions of role of nuclear energy in future energy mix;
    • impact of P&T on waste: improved radioactive waste forms to enable P&T; radioactive waste management strategies (including secondary wastes);
    • impact of P&T on geological disposal: criteria and results;
    • impact of P&T scenarios on fuel and target designs, fabrication and behaviour, including material data and modelling;
    • advances in pyro and aqueous separation processes;
    • P&T specific technology requirements: materials, spallation targets, coolants, etc.;
    • transmutation physics, experiments and nuclear data requirements and validation;
    • transmutation systems: core design, performance and safety;
    • impact of P&T on the fuel cycle, in particular handling, storage and transportation of transmutation fuels;
    • economics of P&T.

    These topics included multi-scale modelling, experiments and instrumentation, novel theories and benchmarks.

    Programme

    The meeting consisted of a plenary session, followed by technical sessions and a poster session that covered the technical subjects in the scope. Poster presenters were given the opportunity to present their work over a short presentation.

    At the summary session, reviews and findings of each technical session were presented by the session chairs.

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    Proceedings

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    Important dates

    15 January 2016       Start of registration and abstract submission
    15 May 2016 Close of abstract submission
    June Select papers / plenary talks / set chair and sessions
    20 July 2016 Notification to authors
    15 September 2016 Close of registration and full paper submission

    Scientific advisory committee

    Terry Todd (INL, United States), Chair Tadafumi Koyama (CRIEPI, Japan)
    Hamid Aït Abderrahim (SCK-CEN, Belgium) Jack Law (INL, United States)
    Nathalie Chauvin (CEA, France) Temitope Taiwo (ANL, United States)
    Stéphanie Cornet (NEA) Robin Taylor (NNL, UK)
    Christian Ekberg (Chalmers, Sweden) Emmanuel Touron
    Amparo Gonzales Espartero (IAEA) Kazufumi Tsujimoto (JAEA, Japan)
    Jean-Paul Glatz (JRC-ITU, EU) Dominique Warin (France)
    Clément Hill (IAEA) Massimo Salvatores (INL, United States)
    Il Soon Hwang (SNU, Rep. Korea) Jan Uhlir (Rez, Czech Republic)

    All correspondence regarding the meeting was addressed to the workshop secretariat:

    NEA Local organisation
    Stéphanie Cornet
    Nuclear Energy Agency
    46, quai Alphonse Le Gallo
    92100 Boulogne Billancourt
    France

    E-mail: 
    Jack Law
    Idaho National Laboratory
    PO Box 1625
    Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3870
    United States

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    Co-operation and IAEA travel grant

    The conference was held in cooperation with the IAEA. IAEA travel grants were provided on the basis of paper selection for applicants from countries eligible to receive technical assistance under the IAEA's Technical Co-operation Programme.