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Session 11: NUCLEAR ENERGY
Facing climate change caused by warm house gas, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), China and US made a bilateral agreement setting targets for CO2 emission out to the year 2030 on 17 Nov 2014. In order to achieve this target, the energy industry from both countries needs to develop and maintain alternative energy solutions to meet continuous growing demands, not only in technology and engineering, but also social and economic reform.
Nuclear energy, as a vital energy source, will play an important role during the changing process. According the World Nuclear Association's (WNA) statistics, US is the country having the most nuclear reactors in operation, and China is the one having the biggest new build programme, nearly the half of total global new builds. Back to the Europe, although there are a few countries have new build programmes, it is steady and not substantial. UK, as one of global leading countries in nuclear development, has its first commercial nuclear reactor in operation in 1955. Currently, the new build programme in Hinkley Point C in Southwest of England is attracting global's attention, not just because of the scale and complexity of the project, but also driven by the engineering challenges. As a nation like most of European countries having nuclear energy, Great Britain is also facing challenges from lifetime extension and decommissioning.
Therefore, it is vital for global nuclear industry to systematically and strategically to think about the development of nuclear energy.
In this session, global engineering expertise, business leaders and policy makers are called to contribute discussions on:
• How to build a new nuclear power station for long term operations?
• How to develop and maintain the lifetime of a nuclear power plant after 60 years operation?
• How to plan a decommissioning ahead of the reactor shut-down?
• How does global nuclear industry and supply chain work together to face the challenges in next decade?
• Safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while protecting people and the environment.
• Latest developments on safe and secure management of radioactive wastes.
Session 11A, 7th July 2015, 10:35-12:20
Moderator: Dr Trevor Griffiths, Energy Process Developments Ltd., UK
Location: Oak suite |
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Detailed online monitoring of radwaste drums in storage sites (30 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Paolo Finocchiaro
Head Technologist
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania
Italy
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Canister Design for Spent Fuel Disposal in a Range of Geologic Disposal Environments (30 minutes) Abstract
Ernest L Hardin, PhD
Applied Systems Analysis and Research
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
United States
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Inhalation of uranium nanoparticles: Respiratory tract deposition and translocation to secondary target organs in rats (20 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Fabrice Petitot
Unité d'Expertise en radioprotection des Travailleurs et de la Population
IRSN – PRP-HOM/SER
France
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Session 11C, 7th July 2015, 15:45-17:30
Moderator: Dr. Ernest Hardin, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Location: Cedar suite A |
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Corrosion protection for new and old nuclear power-station cooling water systems (30 minutes) Abstract
Graham Greenwood-Sole
Managing Director, Corrocoat Ltd., Leeds, England
United Kingdom |
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Atoms for Peace, Atoms for War: A Current Reading (30 minutes) Abstract
Margarita V. Alario, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Environmental Sciences Major
University of Wisconsin
United States |
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Experiences on Preparation of Decommissioning of Reactor Facilities in JAEA (20 minutes) Abstract
Mitsuo Tachibana
Radioactive Wastes Management and Disposal Project Department
Sector of Decommissioning and Radioactive Wastes Management
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Japan
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Session 11E, 9th July 2015, 8:30-10:15
Moderator: Dario Crosetto, Crosetto Foundation for the Reduction of Cancer Deaths, USA
Location: Rowan suite |
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How Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) can be reprocessed using molten salts and the advantages of molten salt reactors for the next generation of economic and safe nuclear reactors: results of a UK government sponsored feasibility study (30 minutes) Abstract
Dr Trevor Griffiths FRSC
Energy Process Developments Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Response of ΔΕ-Ε silicon microdosimeters to therapeutic carbon ion beam (20 minutes) Abstract
Eleni Sagia
Dipartimentodi Energia
Sezione di Ingegneria Nucleare
Italy
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Session 11G, 9th July 2015, 13:40-15:25
Moderator: Dr. Paolo Finocchiaro, INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy
Location: Sycamore suite |
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Breaking the speed, power, and cost barriers in real-time applications to advance science, to discover new particles and to end the most deadly and costly calamity (40 minutes) Abstract
Dario Crosetto
President, Crosetto Foundation for the Reduction of Cancer Deaths, DeSoto, Texas
United States
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Energy Calibration of Electron Beams in NewSUBARU Storage Ring by Laser Compton-Scattering Gamma Rays and Applications (20 minutes) Abstract
Dr. Yiu-Wing Lui
Research Scientist
Cyclotron Institute
Texas A&M University
United States
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High-availability features of an ATCA control and data acquisition system for experimental Nuclear Fusion devices (20 minutes) Abstract
Miguel Correia
Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear
Instituto Superior Técnico
Portugal
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