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.
The GLOBAL 2022 - International Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle covers topics such as:
- 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
