Global is an international conference on the nuclear fuel cycle held every other year, alternating between Asia, Europe and the US.
TopFuel is an international conference on new developments in LWR fuel performance held every year, alternating between Asia, Europe and the US.
Global/Top Fuel 2020 covers topics such as:
- Used fuel: storage, transportation and re-use
re-use after transportation/storage, Closed fuel cycles (re-use), handling and transportation of damaged, high BU and non-standard fuels (incl. ATF), interim storage, dry storage, wet storage, long term storage strategies (incl. ATF), R&D activities, handling and treatment of leaking fuel, criteria and regulation, ageing issues and long term fuel database management - Operation and experience
water chemistry and corrosion/crud/dose counter-measures, Fuel operating experience and performance (reliability, fuel assembly degradation and failures, handling issues, water side corrosion and hydriding, stress corrosion cracking, PIE, pool side examinations, radiation effects, etc.), mixed core operation, fuel assembly distortion, operation flexibility (power modulation or load follow), reload variability, fuel supply strategy, fuel assembly repair, fuel qualification and licensing, end of reactor life: management of final cycles and fluence reduction design - Enhanced accident tolerant fuel (EATF)
in-pile experience, Advanced fuel designs, fuel rod, fuel cladding and component materials behaviour, deployment scenarios, qualification and licensing issues, full scale implementation from manufacturing to reactor operation and back-end - Advances in designs, materials and manufacturing
fuel design, processing and manufacturing, Fuel Assembly design, mechanical and corrosion resistant behaviour, cladding and structural alloys development, fuel design optimisation for fluence reduction and for disposal, irradiation experience in MTR, qualification and licensing - Transient Fuel Behaviour
), criteria and regulations, Transient fuel behaviour (RIA, LOCA, ATWS, PCI/SCC, PCMI &hellip, long term coolability, fuel safety related issues (e.g. fuel fragmentation, relocation and dispersal, transient fission gas release, re-criticality, fuel behaviour under extended loss of cooling), cladding burst/ballooning mechanisms, small and large scale fuel testing facilities - Modelling, analysis and methods
multiscale modelling (including ab initio), Development, verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) of fuel modelling codes, water chemistry modelling, multi-physics, transposition to in-reactor and back-end conditions, experimental data and applicability, design and analytical methods, statistical uncertainty analysis and big data applications
