Name: Technical Meeting on Synergies in Technology Development between Nuclear Fission and Fusion for Energy Production
Start: 2022-06-06T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-06-10T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Vienna, Austria (virtual participation possible)

Monday, 6 June 2022
13:00
13:00 - 13:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

13:00 Opening Remarks - Mikhail Chudakov, DDG-NE, IAEA

13:10 Meeting Objectives and Expected Outputs - Sehila Gonzalez de Vicente (IAEA) Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA)
13:30
13:30 - 14:10
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

13:30 Overview: Status of fusion technology: needs and challenges - Luigi Di Pace Sehila Gonzalez de Vicente (IAEA)

13:50 IAEA ACTIVITIES ON SYNERGIES IN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN NUCLEAR FISSION AND FUSION FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION - Nicole Virgili Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA)
14:10
14:10 - 15:10
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

14:10 Overview: Nuclear fusion as an element of future energy systems - Alexander Bychkov (Senior Nuclear Engineering Expert - INPRO) Marco Utili (ENEA) Vladimir Artisyuk (State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”)

14:30 SUSTAINABLE FUSION/ FISSION DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS ON THE LONG TERM FOR PROPER ADDRESSING OF CLIMATE CHANGE - Enrique Morales (Centro de Altos Estudios Estratégicos (CALEN, Ministry of Defense), Montevideo, Uruguay)

14:50 FUSION REACTORS IN INPRO STRATEGIC STUDIES AND NEW INPRO COLLABORATIVE PROJECT ON THE “LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES OF PROSPECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF FUSION FACILITIES” - Alexander Bychkov (Senior Nuclear Engineering Expert - INPRO)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
15:30
15:30 - 15:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

15:30 SYNERGIES BETWEEN FUSION AND FISSION ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS - Luigi Candido (Politecnico di Torino)
15:50
15:50 - 16:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

15:50 FUSION FOR THE ENERGY MARKET: ECONOMIC AND MARKET CONSIDERATIONS - Shutaro Takeda (Kyoto University) Thomas Griffiths

16:10 THE COMMERCIALISATION OF FUSION FOR THE ENERGY MARKET: A REVIEW OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDIES - Thomas Griffiths (Imperial College London)
16:30
16:30 - 16:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:30 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE - Jose Bastos Stephanie Seely (IAEA NIDS)
Tuesday, 7 June 2022
10:00
10:00 - 11:20
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

10:00 Overview: Structural materials and circulating fluids - Alfons Weisenburger (KIT) Lorenzo Malerba (CIEMAT) Marco Utili (ENEA)

10:20 CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES IN FUSION AND FISSION MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT - Lorenzo Malerba (CIEMAT)

10:40 FISSION AND FUSION WATER COOLING CIRCUITS: CHEMISTRY, CORROSION MITIGATION AND MATERIALS - Claudia Gasparrini (Consorzio RFX)

11:00 MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY WITH LIQUID METAL AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES: REMOVAL OF ACTIVATION CORROSION PRODUCTS - Marco Utili (ENEA)
11:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
11:50 continued
continued
11:50 - 12:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

11:50 COMMONALITIES BETWEEN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT IN FISSION AND FUSION TECHNOLOGIES - Giacomo Aiello (EUROfusion )

12:10 THE KEY ENABLING ROLE OF DUCTILE AMORPHOUS OXIDE COATINGS FOR GENERATION IV AND FUSION NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS - Fabio Di Fonzo (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia)

12:30 THE BEHAVIOUR OF MA956 AND 316L-ALUMINIZED STEELS IN SUPERCRITICAL WATER - Maria Mihalache (RATEN-ICN, Institute For Nuclear Research)
12:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 - 13:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
13:50
13:50 - 15:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

13:50 Overview: Fuel Cycle - Anzhelika Khaperskaia (IAEA) Clement Hill (IAEA) Luigi DI PACE Marco Utili (ENEA) Nicholas Smith (IAEA) Sehila Gonzalez de Vicente (IAEA)

14:10 DEVELOPMENT OF PLASMA TORCH FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT - Shahid Hussain (National Tokamak Fusion Program)

14:30 THE CONCEPT OF TRITIUM FUEL CYCLE FOR A TOKAMAK BASED FUSION NEUTRON SOURCES IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION - Sergey Ananyev (NRC "Kurchatov Institute")

14:50 SYNERGY OF FISSION AND FUSION: THE PATH TO CLEAN NUCLEAR ENERGY SYSTEM - Vladimir ARTISYUK (State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”)

15:10 CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES IN FUSION AND FISSION TRITIUM MANAGEMENT - Marco Utili (ENEA)

15:30 EXTRACTION AND SEPERATION OF TRITIUM, THE NUCLEAR FUSION FUEL AND THE BY-PRODUCT OF FISSION - Elina Pajuste (University of Latvia)
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
16:20
16:20 - 16:40
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:20 Overview: Decommissioning considerations - Christelle Decanis David Torcy Olivier Gastaldi
16:40
16:40 - 17:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:40 Open discussion - All
Wednesday, 8 June 2022
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

10:00 Overview: Manufacturing and supply chain - Shutaro Takeda (Kyoto University)

10:20 RESEARCH PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES FOR CFETR FUSION REATOR - Hu Jiansheng (Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:40 ON THE AVAILABLITY, SUPPLY AND USE OF CRITICAL NATURAL RESOURCE FOR THE REALISATION OF THE FUSION INDUSTRY - Richard Pearson (Kyoto Fusioneering Ltd.)
11:00
11:00 - 11:20
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

11:00 ITER – THE WAY TO LOOK AT THE FUTURE - Sergio Orlandi (ITER)
11:20
11:20 - 11:40
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

11:20 EU-DEMO OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE POTENTIAL ISSUES AND NPP EXPERIENCE - Sergio Ciattaglia
11:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:10
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
12:10
12:10 - 13:10
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

12:10 ONLINE NEUTRON MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS FOR IN-VESSEL MONITORING IN FISSION REACTORS: APPLICABILITY TO BREEDING BLANKETS OF DEMO - Philippe Filliatre (CEA, DES, IRESNE, DER, Cadarache, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France)

12:30 RADIATION TESTS ON COMPONENTS FOR THE ITER PROJECT - Jessica Scifo (ENEA)

12:50 REAL-TIME MEASUREMENTS OF RELEVANT NUCLEAR AND RADIATION QUANTITIES IN FUSION EXPERIMENTS - Nicola Fonnesu (ENEA)
13:10 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:10 - 14:10
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
14:10
14:10 - 15:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

14:10 Overview: Modelling and simulations & Nuclear data - Andrew Davis (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) Maurizio Angelone (ENEA)

14:30 SINBAD PROJECT AND OUTCOMES OF WPEC SUBGROUP 47 ON SHIELDING BENCHMARK USE - Ivan Kodeli (Jozef Stefan Institute)

14:50 FUSION NEUTRONICS EXPERIMENTS FOR NUCLEAR DATA AND NEUTRONICS TOOLS VALIDATION AT THE 14 MEV FRASCATI NEUTRON GENERATOR - Maurizio Angelone (ENEA)

15:10 SIMULATION OF FUSION NEUTRON DAMAGE IN TUNGSTEN, MOLYBDENUM AND IRON USING HIGH ENERGY PROTONS, HIGH ENERGY IONS, HIGH ENERGY NEUTRONS AND FISSION NEUTRONS - Olga Ogorodnikova (National Research Nuclear University “MEPHI” (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute))

15:30 MOOSE FRAMEWORK FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FISSION AND FUSION REACTORS - Gyanender Pratap Singh (Idaho National Laboratory)
15:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:20
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
16:20
16:20 - 18:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:20 Overview: Design Safety, Safety Analysis and Regulation - Frederic Stephani Masahiro Aoki Paolo Contri Paula Calle Vives (IAEA) Sehila Gonzalez de Vicente (IAEA)

16:40 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE: TOWARDS IDENTIFYING SYNERGIES BETWEEN FISSION AND FUSION POWER REACTORS - Frederic Stephani

17:00 TOWARDS A FUSION SPECIFIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BASED ON THE APPLICABILITY OF THE CURRENT NUCLEAR FRAMEWORK - Joachim Herb (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) mbH)

17:20 JOINT EUROPEAN TORUS D-T SAFETY CASE - Lois Roberts (UKAEA) Omar Afify (UKAEA)

17:40 LEVERAGING PARTICLE ACCELERATOR AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL SAFETY PARADIGMS FOR REGULATING FUSION DEVICES - Michael Hua (Helion Energy) Sachin Desai (Helion Energy)
Thursday, 9 June 2022
10:00 continued
continued
10:00 - 11:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

10:00 THE SYNERGY BETWEEN THE APPROACHES TO SAFETY REGULATION OF ADVANCED NUCLEAR REACTORS AND FUSION FACILITIES - Sergey Sinegribov

10:20 SAFETY ANALYSIS OF FUSION REACTORS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EXTERNAL EVENT INITIATORS - Donato Lioce (Iter)

10:40 TOWARDS HARMONISATION IN LICENSING OF FUTURE NUCLEAR POWER TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE - Egidijus Urbonavicius (Lithuanian energy institute)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
11:30 continued
continued
11:30 - 12:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

11:30 DEVELOPMENT OF A FUSION POWER PLANT SAFETY FRAMEWORK - Robert Jennings (UKAEA)

11:50 STATUS OF DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENT ANALYSES AND SAFETY CODES APPLICATION FOR EUROPEAN DEMO - Xue Zhou Jin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

12:10 WORKING TOWARDS A PROPORTIONATE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FUSION POWER PLANTS - Edward Lewis-Smith
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

13:30 Overview: Project management and management systems - Pedro Dieguez Porras (NPES)

13:50 F4E QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EVOLUTION AND REQUIREMENTS PROPAGATION - Rita Batista

14:10 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROJECT AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE EU SUPPLY ACTIVITIES FOR ITER - Konstantina Voukelatou (Italian National Agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development (ENEA) )
14:30
14:30 - 14:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

14:30 Overview: Safeguards Considerations for Advanced Nuclear Reactors - Jae-Sung Lee Traci Newton
14:50
14:50 - 15:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

14:50 Overview: Economic and market considerations - Henri Paillere (IAEA) Shutaro Takeda (Kyoto University)

15:10 FUSION ENERGY INDUSTRY: FROM DREAM TO REALITY - Anna Soldatova
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
16:00
16:00 - 16:40
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:00 SMALL MODULAR REACTOR AND NUCLEAR FUSION STARTUP COMPANIES - Aliki van Heek (IAEA)

16:20 ACHIEVING A SOCIAL LICENSE FOR FUSION ENERGY - Seth Hoedl
16:40
16:40 - 17:00
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

16:40 Overview: Human Resources and knowledge management - Pedro Dieguez Porras (NPES)
17:00
17:00 - 17:40
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

17:00 Overview: Knowledge management strategies and techniques - John W Roberts

17:20 EUROfusion HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: NEXT STEPS TO BRINGING THE FUSION RESEARCH COMMUNITY TO THE NUCLEAR NEWBUILD ERA - Guido Lange (EUROfusion)
18:30 IAEA Hospitality Reception - Salon A and B
IAEA Hospitality Reception - Salon A and B
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Salon A & B
Friday, 10 June 2022
10:00
10:00 - 11:20
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

10:00 Overview: Fission-fusion hybrid systems - Minghuang Wang Vladimir Artisyuk (ROSATOM) Yican Wu (Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology (INEST),Chinese Academy of Sciences)

10:20 NUCLEAR FUEL PROCESSING USING FAST FUSION NEUTRONS PRODUCED IN A SPHERICAL TOKAMAK. - Martin Nieto-Perez (Pennsylvania State University)

10:40 THE CONCEPT OF PLASMA-FOCUS DRIVEN FUSION-FISSION HYBRID REACTORS - Leopoldo Soto (Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission)

11:00 Overview and Prospects for Fusion Fission Hybrid System Development in China - Minghuang Wang
11:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:30
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
11:30 continued
continued
11:30 - 12:50
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

11:30 PILOT HYBRID EXPERIMENT WITH REVERSED FIELD PINCH AS NEUTRON SOURCE AND DOUBLE FISSION TEST BEDS: AN INNOVATIVE STAGE APPROACH TOWARDS A FULL POWER FUSION-FISSION HYBRID REACTOR - Roberto Piovan (Consorzio RFX)

11:50 Hybrid fusion-fission system based on a compact tokamak device with proven technologies - Renato Gatto (Sapienza University of Rome)

12:10 FUSION-FISSION HYBRID REACTOR BASED ON HIGH FIELD TOKAMAK NEUTRON SOURCE - Francesco Orsitto

12:30 NEUTRON SPECTRA IN FUSION-FISSION HYBRID REACTOR (FFHR) FOR SPENT FUEL TREATMENT - Juana Gervasoni (CNEA)
12:50
12:50 - 13:25
Room: CR6, 7th Floor, C Building
Contributions

12:50 IAEA Activity on FURIS (FUsion Reactor Information System) - Lorenz GAERTNER (IAEA)

13:05 Closing Remarks - IAEA