Plenary
Sessions
Opening
Plenary
Monday,
14 May, 2007 • 8:15-12:45
(Auditorium)
Welcome
D.
Hill (DOE/INL), S.H. Kim (KNS), Ph.
Pradel (CEA), G. Servière (SFEN)
Panel
on “Evolutions in Nuclear Technical Approaches”
A-Cl.
Lacoste (ASN), B.
Borchardt (NRC), S.
Mizumoto (METI), R. Schenkel (EU Com.), Ph.
Garderet (AREVA), E.
Gonzales (FORATOM)
Nuclear
Energy: Broadening the Vision
B.
Pellaud (Pt of the Swiss Nuclear Forum, Former Deputy Director
General of IAEA)
Panel
on “The Nuclear Renaissance at Work”
A.
Howard (NEI), B.
Dupraz (EDF), Jain
(IAE), R.
Adam (NECSA), Lee
(KNS),
Plenary 1: The
Energy Challenges: the Utilities Point of View
Monday,
14 May, 2007 •
15:30-17:15 (Auditorium)
7603
Which Nuclear in the Future
Energy Mix?, by J. Van Vyve (Tractebel
Engineering/Suez-Belgium)
7605
The Energy Challenges:
the US Utility Point of View, by G.
Vanderheyden (UniStar Nuclear-USA)
7601
The
Energy Challenges –Japanese Utilities’ View, by
S. Muto (TEPCO-Japan)
7597
China’s Nuclear
Energy Demand and CGNPC’s Nuclear Power Development, by
S. Rugang (CGNPC-China)
7606
New
Plant Construction in Korea and Future Program, by
K.C. Park (KHNP-Korea)
Plenary 2: New
Plants: Design, Engineering, Safety
Tuesday,
15 May, 2007 •
10:15-12:15 (Auditorium)
7604
EPR,
Meeting the Challenges of the Nuclear Renaissance, by
L. Oursel (AREVA NP-France)
7598
New Technologies Deployment for
Advanced Power Plants, by K. Yamauchi (MHI-Japan)
7590
Strategy
of Plant Concept Development in Hitachi, by
K. Moriya (Hitachi-Japan)
7607
AP
1000 and Other Reactors Developed by Westinghouse/Toshiba, by
S. Shiga (Toshiba-Japan)
7608
Development of Russian Reactors, by L. Yanko (Atomstroyexport-Russia)
7592
Operator-Driven
CANDU Development, by J.M. Hopwood, S.K.W.
Yu, I.J. Hastings (AECL-Canada)
7609
Evolution of the PHWR Design
and Construction Experience Feedback on PHWR and PWR, by
S.K. Jaïn (NPCIL-India)
Plenary 3: Sustainability
through Fuel Cycle: Next Steps
Tuesday,
15 May, 2007 •
15:30-17:15 (Auditorium)
7610
The Economy of Nuclear Recycling, by R. Coulon (AREVA-France)
7611
EDF Strategy, by
M. Debes (EDF-France)
7612
US Strategy for Fuel
Cycle, by D. Hill (DOE/INL-USA)
7599
The Current Status of Active Tests at Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and the
Preparation for MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant, by
A. Minematsu (JNFL-Japan)
7613
7527
Fuel Options for Efficient
Plutonium Management Strategies, by D. Haas
(ITU-EC)
Plenary 4: Future
Nuclear Power Systems: Turning Ideas into Reality
Wednesday,
16 May, 2007 •
10:15-12:15 (Auditorium)
7586
High-Temperature
Reactors - Technological Developments & Potential Market, by
W. von Lensa (FZJ-Germany)
7520
Update
on Uranium Availability; Current and Forecast Mine Production and the
Resources Issue, by G. Capus (AREVA
NC-France)
Panel:
Challenges for a Renaissance of LMFR – Status & Programs
7614
US LMFR Program: Uranium
Resources, Minor Actinides Management, by
Ph. Finck (DOE/INL-USA)
7615
PROSPECTS
OF ESTABLISHING A NEW TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
FOR NUCLEAR INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN
RUSSIA,
by Oleg
Saraev (-Russia)
7616
Status and
Plan of LMFR Development in Japan, by S.
Kondo (JAEA-Japan)
7600
French
Program for Sodium Fast Reactors, by J.-L.
Carbonnier (CEA Saclay-France), J.-M. Delbecq (EDF-France), R.
Assedo (AREVA NP-France)
7593
Status of Sodium Cooled Fast
Reactors with Closed Fuel Cycle in India, by
B. Raj (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research-India)
Plenary 5: Public
Reactions on Nuclear Power
Wednesday,
16 May, 2007 •
17:30-18:15 (Auditorium)
7580
The
Nuclear Renaissance: Towards a Wonderful World? Foresight Issues Linked to
the Global Development of Nuclear Power, by F.
Bazile (CEA-France)
7617
Public Acceptance in
Korea, by S.B. Yoo (KHNP-Korea)
Key
Note Sessions
Key
Note A: Operation and Licensing Trends
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 • 8:15-10:00 (Auditorium)
7618
Future
Evolution of the IAEA Safety Standards, by
M. El Shanawary (IAEA)
7619
Multinational Design Evaluation
Program – Current Situation and Future Activities, by
Mr. REIG (OECD/NEA-France)
7620
Nuclear
Safety Harmonization in Europe – the WENRA Approach, by
Mr. Woodhouse (UK)
7621
Licensing Aspects of a Potential New Nuclear Program in UK, by
Dr. Creswell (UK)
7622
Nuclear Safety
Harmonization in Europe – the ENISS Contribution, by
Mr. Fourest (FORATOM-Belgium)
7557
Outage
Optimization - The US Experience and Approach, by
J. LaPlatney (AREVA NP-USA)
Key
Note B: Challenges for New NPPs Material and Structures
Monday, May 14, 2007 • 17:30-19:15 (Auditorium)
7315
Structural
Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors - an Overview, by
I. Charit, K.L. Murty (North Carolina State Univ-USA)
7207
Materials Modeling a
Key for Design of Advanced High Temperature Reactor Components, by
M. Samaras, W. Hoffelner (Paul Scherrer Institute-Switzerland), Ch.
Fu, M. Guttmann (CEA Saclay-France), R.E. Stoller (ORNL-USA)
7182
Mechanical
Behaivour of HTR Materials : Developments in Support of Defect Assessment,
Structural Integrity and Lifetime Evaluation, by
O. Ancelet, S. Chapuliot (CEA-Saclay-France)
Key
Note C: Long Term Reactor Programmes
Monday, May 14, 2007 • 13:30-15:15 (Auditorium)
7596
Liquid
Salt Applications and Molten Salt Reactors, by
C.W. Forsberg (ORNL-USA), C. Renault (CEA Saclay-France)
7585
The Potential of LFR and ELSY Project, by L.
Cinotti (Del Fungo Giera Energia), C.F. Smith (LLNL), J.J.
Sienicki (ANL), H.A. Abderrahim (SCK-CEN), G. Benamati (ENEA),
G. Locatelli (Ansaldo Nucleare), S. Monti (ENEA), H. Wider (JRC/IE),
D. Struwe (FZK), A. Orden (Empresarios Agrupados), I.S. Hwang
(NUTRECK-KESRI)
7146
European Research Activities within
the Project: High Performance Light Water Reactor Phase 2 (HPLWR Phase 2),
by J. Starflinger, T. Schulenberg (FZK-Germany),
P. Marsault (CEA Cadarache-France), D. Bittermann (AREVA
NP-Germany), C. Maraczy (AEKI-KFKI-Hungary), E. Laurien (Univ
of Stuttgart-Germany), J.-A. Lycklama (NRG Petten-The Netherlands),
H. Anglart (KTH Nuclear Energy Technology-Sweden), N. Aksan (PSI-Switzerland),
M. Ruzickova (UJV Rez plc-Czech Republic), L. Heikinheimo (VTT-Finland)
7351
Status
of Phenix Operation and of Sodium Fast Reactors in the World, by
J. Guidez, L. Martin, C. Courtois (CEA-France)
Key
Note D: Challenges in Reactor Modeling
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 • 13:30-15:15 (Auditorium)
7259
Progress and Challenges in the
Development and Qualification of Multi-Level Multi-Physics Coupled
Methodologies for Reactor Analysis, by K.N.
Ivanov, M. Avramova (Pennsylvania State Univ-USA)
7623
Towards a European
Platform for Simulation of Nuclear Reactors: The NURESM Project, by (CEA, PSI, Univ of Madrid, FZK)
7579
Advanced Numerical
Simulation and Safety Demonstration of Generation IV Concepts, by
J.C. Micaelli, G.B. Bruna, J. Couturier (IRSN-France)
7624
Advanced
Thermal Hydraulics Modeling Methods for Actual and Future Reactors
Simulation, by D. Bestion (CEA-France),
G. Yadigaroglu (PSI-Switzerland)
Key
Note E: Status of National HTR Program
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 • 17:30-19:15 (Auditorium)
7625
Chinese
HTR Program: HTR 10 results & Work Progress on HTR PL - Potential
Market: The Example of China, by
Z. Zhang (INET-China)
7584
Status
of Japan's HTR Program, by S. Shiozawa (JAEA-Japan)
7626
The NGNP Program
and HTR Developments in the US, by Ph.
Hildebrandt (DOE/INL-USA)
7273
PBMR Project
Developments and First of a Kind Test Facilities, by
G. Claassen (PBMR-South Africa)
7627
Status of the Korean HTR
Program, by H.C. No (Korea)
7602
Status of the HTR Programme in
France, by B. Ballot (AREVA-France),
F. Carré (CEA-France), J.-M. Delbecq (EDF-France), J.-C.
Gauthier, D. Hittner, J.-Ph. Lebrun, M. Lecomte (AREVA-France)
Key
Note F: Deployment and Sustainability of Nuclear Energy
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 • 8:15-10:00 (Auditorium)
7628
Worldwide
Review of Near Term Deployment Context Issues, by
K. Matsui (IAE-Japan)
7594
Education and Making Human
Resources Activities in Japanese Universities, by
T. Takeda (Osaka Univ-Japan), Y. Oka (Univ of Tokyo-Japan), S.
Shiroya (Kyoto Univ-Japan)
7167
INPRO Study on the
Development of Nuclear Energy Systems and its Impact on Energy Security,
by Y. Sokolov, M. Khoroshev (IAEA), V.
Tsibulskiy, S. Subbotin (RRC Kurchatov Institute-Russia)
7530
Status of the US
Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative, by K. Schultz (General
Atomics-USA), C. Sink (US DOE-USA), P. Pickard (Sandia-USA),
S. Herring, J. O'Brien (INL-USA), B. Buckingham (General
Atomics-USA), W. Summers (Savannah River National Laboratory-USA),
M. Lewis (ANL-USA)
7629
Nuclear
Economic View - ENC 2005 Update, by E.
Bertel (NEA-France)
Key
Note G: Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Technical Stakes
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 • 15:30-17:15 (Auditorium)
7179
Formulation
of Engineering Design Principles for the Treatment of Irradiated Fuel and
Associated Radioactive Waste, by A.W.
Banford, B.C. Hanson, P.J. Scully, R.J. Taylor (Nexia Solutions-UK)
7511
Comparative Study of
Plutonium Burning in Heavy and Light Water Reactors, by
T.A. Taiwo, T.K. Kim, F.J. Szakaly, R.N. Hill, W.S. Yang (ANL-USA),
G.R. Dyck, B. Hyland, G.W.R. Edwards (AECL-Canada)
7446
The Nuclear Waste Issue: Towards an Assessment of the Partitioning and
Transmutation of Actinides, by H. Masson, D.
Greneche, P. Chambrette (AREVA NC-France)
7169
Pyrochemistry within EUROPART-
Assessment of the Studies on Spent Fuel Treatment Processes - Collective
Work, by S. Bourg (CEA-France), C.
Caravaca (CIEMAT-Spain), J. Finne (EDF-France), G. de Angelis
(ENEA-Italy), R. Malmbeck (ITU-Germany), B. Lewin (NEXIA
Solutions-UK), J. Uhlir (NRI-Czech Republic), T. Inoue (CRIEPI-Japan),
V. Luca (ANSTO-Australia), C. Madic (CEA-France)
7587
Survey of Candidate
Fuels for Gen IV Sodium Fast Reactors with a Closed Fuel Cycle, by
Ph. Brossard (CEA/Saclay-France), Ph. Dufour, L. Paret, M. Pelletier
(CEA/Cadarache-France), J. Rouault, F. Storrer (CEA/Saclay-France),
F. Varaine (CEA/Cadarache-France)
Key
Note H: Lessons Learned for the New Build
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 • 13:30-15:15 (Auditorium)
7588
Lesson
Learned from Past Experience with Building Nuclear Plants in US, by
C.W. Hess (Burns & Roe Enterprises-USA)
7589
Lessons
Learnt from the French Program, by G. Servière
(EDF-France)
7454
Improvements
in US-APWR design from lessons learned in Japanese PWRs, by
K. Yamauchi, M. Kaneda, Y. Yamaura, T. Noda (MHI-Japan)
7591
Lessons Learned
from the Spanish Programme for New Build, by
M.T. Dominguez (EA-Spain)
