GLOBAL 2022 - International Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle

The GLOBAL 2022 - International Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle is dedicated to the nuclear fuel cycle with new nuclear perspectives in climate emergency and energy supply crisis.

Topics

• Fuel cycle options including technical-economical evaluations
  • Advanced fuel cycle options for thermal neutron reactor systems (both large scale and small modular reactors)
  • Industrial practices in water-cooled reactors
  • Recycling options
  • Open cycle options
  • Partitioning and transmutation, and isotopes valorisation
  • Generation IV nuclear systems (both large scale and small modular reactors) : e.g. FNR, MSR, Th cycles,&hellip
• Nuclear energy outlook and prospects, and associated fuel cycle perspectives
  • Nuclear energy and energy market dynamics
  • Nuclear energy outlook (including SMR)
  • Natural resources
  • New applications of nuclear energy
  • Front-end markets: updates and prospects
  • Nuclear system sustainability (including life cycle assessment)
• Spent/Used fuel storage & transportation
  • Extension of storage period of existing system: ageing management, relicensing&hellip
  • SF storage exiting technologies and innovation to account for long term storage
  • Storage system durability and transportability (including regulatory constraints)
  • Long term behaviour of SF under storage, SF integrity under storage conditions
  • Transportation of SF: technologies and system to implement
  • Centralized storage
• Nuclear fuel cycle front-end
  • Uranium mining
  • Uranium exploration
  • Uranium conversion and enrichment
  • Uranium ore processing
  • Advances in processes and technologies : ATF&hellip
  • Nuclear fuel design and fabrication : includes innovations, ATF
  • Valorisation, reuse of materials (depleted U…)
  • Front-end Transports
• Waste management
  • Predisposal steps: waste characterisation, treatment, conditioning, storage (includes vitrified HLW and spent nuclear fuel when declared as waste, ILLW)
  • Policies and strategies in radioactive waste management (including valorisation)
  • Progress in geological disposal project from siting to industrial implementation
  • Experience in VLLW and LILW disposal
  • Legacy Waste management
• Spent.Used fuel Fuel recycling
  • Mixed oxide fuel manufacturing and reprocessing ( MOX, Remix, MOX2)
  • LWR used fuel processing
  • Non oxide fuels recycling: nitride, carbide, molten salt,&hellip
  • Fast neutron reactor fuel manufacturing and reprocessing (MOX, metal fuel)
  • Partitioning and transmutation: fuels and recycling processes
  • Industrial plants: updates and new projects
• Institutional, international & societal developments and issues
  • Public Support
  • Non-proliferation and safeguards
  • Legal, financial and insurance frameworks
  • Knowledge management
  • International R&D collaboration