Workshop on Advanced Reactors With Innovative Fuels

ARWIF 2008

Hosted by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)

20-22 February 2008

Fukui, Japan

Programme

Tuesday 19 February 2008
18:30-20:30	Welcome reception and registration

Wednesday 20 February 2008
10:00-12:00	Opening session
	Chair: Takamasa Mori (JAEA)

	K. Ito (JAEA)	Welcome and introduction
	T. Mori (JAEA)	Overview of the workshop
	D. Ingersoll (ORNL)	Overview and status of Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
	J. Knebel (FZK)	European research on transmutation within EUROTRANS: Recent results and prospects
	S. Kondo (JAEA)	S. Kondo (JAEA)
		FaCT Project in Japan and MONJU
13:30-16:00	Visit to Monju research reactor
18:30-20:30	Banquet

Thursday 21 February 2008
	Parallel sessions (Fukui International Activities Plaza)

9:30-10:45	Design and fuel performance I
	Chair: Jean-Paul Glatz (ITU)

	Larry Ott (ORNL)	Summary of irradiation tests of mixed-oxide fuel prepared with weapons-derived plutonium
	Larry Ott (ORNL)	Advanced LWR fuel testing capabilities in the ORNL HFIR reactor
	Jess Gehin (ORNL)	Development of fast spectrum irradiation facility for fuels development in the high flux isotope reactor

9:30-10:45	High temperature reactors
	Chair: Won Sik Yang (ANL)

	Renaud Belin (CEA)	Key fuel issues of the gas-cooled fast reactors programme
	Vaclav Dostal (NRI-Rez)	Experimental loops for Generation IV reactors
	JaeHoon Song (KAIST)	Monte Carlo calculation of temperature distributions in a pebble with dispersed fuel particles

11:15-12:30	Fast spectrum reactors I
	Chair: Jess Gehin (ORNL)

	Won SikYang (ANL)	Performance characteristics of metal and oxide cores for a 1000 MWt advanced burner reactor
	Kazumi Ikeda (Mitsubishi)	Core design of advanced fast reactor towards reduction of environmental burden
	Hiroshi Sekimoto (TIT)	Fuel cycle for "CANDLE" reactors

11:15-12:30	Design and fuel performance II
	Chair: Yoshihisa Tahara (EDC)

	Larry Ott (ORNL)	Mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel performance benchmarks
	Fausto Franceschini (WEC)	Use of isotopically-modified erbium in advanced LWR fuel
	Masatoshi Yamasaki (NFI Ltd)	Progress in development of erbia-bearing super high Burn-up fuel

14:00-15:15	Plutonium burning
	Chair: Hiroshi Sekimoto (TIT)

	Kevin Hesketh (Nexia)	UK plutonium re-use options studies
	Peter Vertes (KFKI)	Using PWR spent fuel materials in fast breeder reactors
	Yoichiro Shimazu (U-Hokkaido)	Feasibility study of the utilisation of Pu-Th-based molten salt reactors for sustainable fuel supply

14:00-15:15	Minor actinide systems
	Chair: Sigeaki Okajima (JAEA)

	Miroslav Hron (NRI-Rez)	R&D programme in the framework of the MSR-SPHINX actinide burner concept development
	Toshinobu Sasa (JAEA)	Conceptual study of liquid-fuelled accelerator-driven transmutation system
	W.F.G. van Rooijen (GIT)	Calculation of the sensitivity to delayed neutron parameters for fast reactors based on generalised perturbation theory

15:45-17:00	Evolutionary and revolutionary water reactors
	Chair: Kevin Hesketh (Nexia)

	Tsutomu Okubo (JAEA)	Advanced LWR concept of FLWR for TRU recycling with MOX fuel
	Bojan Petrovic (GIT)	Use of nitride fuel to extend cycle length in IRIS reactor to four years with uranium enriched below 5%
	Yuki Ishiwatari (U-Tokyo)	Research and development of a supercritical-pressure light water cooled fast reactor (Super Fast Reactor)

15:45-17:00	Design and fuel performance III
	Chair: Larry Ott (ORNL)

	Renaud Belin (CEA)	Chemical compatibility tests between plutonium and americium oxides fuels and inert matrices for transmutation
	Jin-Sik Cheon (KAERI)	Effect of rare earth elements on the thermal conductivity of U-Zr metallic fuels
	Chan Bock Lee (KAERI)	Metallic fuel development for sodium-cooled fast reactor

Friday 22 February 2008
	Parallel sessions

9:30-10:45	Proliferation-resistant systems
	Chair: Bojan Petrovic (GIT)

	Masaki Saito (TIT)	Protected plutonium production by transmutation of minor actinide for sustainable growth
	Fukuda Kosaku (TIT)	Inventories of secondary fissile materials and mass-balance of minor actinides in protected plutonium production cycle
	Yoshitalia Meiliza (TIT)	Protected plutonium breeding in the blanket of fast breeder reactor by PPP technology

9:30-10:45	Modelling and experiments for RIA
	Chair: Larry Ott (ORNL)

	András Keresztúri (KFKI)	Safety analyses of reactivity-initiated accidents in a HPLWR reactor by using the coupled ATHLET-KIKO3D
	Miki Umeda (JAEA)	Behavior of coated fuel particle of high-temperature gas-cooled reactor under reactivity-initiated accident conditions
	Anthony Ulses (US-NRC)	Application of NRC analysis codes to SPERT E-core super prompt critical rod ejection tests

11:15-12:30	Advanced fuel cycle options
	Chair: Kevan D. Weaver (IntVen)

	Jan Uhlir (NRI-Rez)	Progress in R&D on pyrochemical technologies devoted to MSR fuel cycle
	Jean-Paul Glatz (ITU)	Development of advanced reprocessing techniques for nuclear fuels
	Hosadu Nawada (IAEA)	IAEA's activities on advanced fuel cycle options

11:15-12:30	Fast spectrum reactors II
	Chair: Katsuhisa Yamaguchi (JAEA)

	Yoshiro Asahi (ISTS)	Conceptual design of inherently safe fast reactor (ISFR)
	Matal Oldrich (ENERGOVYZKUM)	Advanced concepts of sodium-cooled fast reactors and steam generators of Czech origin
	Yasuyoshi Kato (TIT)	Supercritical CO₂ gas turbine fast reactors for next generation

14:00-16:00	Panel discussion: Directions and needs in advanced reactors and fuels (experiments, computer simulation, etc.)
	Chair: K. Hesketh (Nexia)

	H. Sekimoto (TIT)	Sodium-cooled fast reactors and their fuels
	J. Gehin (ORNL)	Very high temperature reactors and their fuels
	M. Saito (TIT)	Proliferation resistance in advanced reactors and their fuels
	K. Hesketh (Nexia)	Advanced light water reactors and their fuels
	E. Sartori (OECD/NEA)	International co-operation in advanced reactors
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During the technical sessions in Fukui International Activity Plaza, a demonstration of the Research and Test Facilities Database (RTFDB) developed by the NEA was made in Conference Room #1.