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Submission deadline
Contributions to the Conference are welcome as synopses which will serve as a basis for selection of speakers in the panel sessions. All submissions must present original work which has not been published elsewhere. Authors of accepted synopses should be ready to participate and present their work during one of the panel discussions.
Synopses should be approximately 500 to 600 words on one or a maximum of two A4 pages, may contain any charts, graphs, figures and references) and should give enough information on the content of the proposed paper to enable the Programme Committee to evaluate it and assess the suitability of the paper for the Conference. The synopsis must be submitted to only one of four topical areas of the Conference. The Сonference organizers reserve the right to transfer the submitted synopsis to another topical area should it be more appropriate.
Anyone wishing to present at the conference must submit a synopsis in electronic format using this IAEA-INDICO platform. Authors are encouraged to submit synopsis as early as possible. The IAEA will not accept submissions via email. The synopsis can be submitted through this system until 2 May 2025.
Specifications for the layout will be available on IAEA-INDICO. The system for electronic submission of synopsis, IAEA-INDICO, is the sole mechanism for submission of contributed synopsis. Authors are encouraged to submit synopsis as early as possible. The IAEA will not accept submissions via email.
In addition, authors must register online using the InTouch+ platform. The online registration together with the auto-generated Participation Form (Form A) and Form for Submission of a Paper (Form B) must reach the IAEA no later than 2 May 2025.
IMPORTANT: The Programme Committee will consider uploaded synopses only if these two forms have been received by the IAEA through the established official channels.
Acceptance of synopses
The Secretariat reserves the right to exclude synopses that do not comply with its technical or scientific quality standards and that do not apply to one of the topics listed below.
Authors will be informed by 4 July 2025 as to whether their submission has been accepted, either orally or as a poster, for presentation at the conference.
Accepted synopses will also be reproduced in an unedited electronic compilation of Synopses which will be made available to all registered participants of the conference.
Abstracts for the following topics are invited to be submitted:
Innovative technologies for EPR: Opportunities, Lessons Learned and Challenges
Examples include:
• Digital tools:
- Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Data Science
- Digital Twins
- Telemedicine and remote assistance for radiological injuries
- Communication and notification
- Radiological assessment
• Virtual tools:
- Virtual Joint Information Center
- Virtual Emergency Operations Centre
- Virtual/Augmented Reality training
- Simulation/exercises
• Remote controlled and Autonomous devices:
- Drones
- Robots
- Optical monitoring devices
Challenges and proposed solutions in Protection Strategies
Examples include:
• Emerging reactor technologies such as advanced reactors, small modular reactors (SMRs), and floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), including legal and regulatory considerations, Emergency Planning Zones (EPZs), and public acceptance
• Nuclear Harmonisation and Standardization Initiative (NHSI) for SMRs
• Assessment and prognosis
• Radiation monitoring strategy
• International Radiation Monitoring Information System (IRMIS) expansion
• Protection of the Public
• Protection of emergency workers and helpers
• Protection of food, agricultural products, water, and other aspects of the environment
• Environmental assessment
• Emergency response in non-permissive environments due to:
- armed conflicts
- natural disasters
- industrial accidents
- infectious outbreaks
- other global crises
• Implications of new transport technologies including commercial maritime nuclear propulsion, drone transport of radioactive sources, electric/hydrogen-powered ground transport, and autonomous vehicle transport
Termination, recovery and long-term response considerations
Examples include:
• Good practices and lessons learned
• Transition from emergency exposure situation to existing exposure situation
• Preparedness and response aspects in mitigating the long-term impact
• Non-radiological impacts
Nuclear Safety/Security Interface
Examples include:
• Impact on protective measures
• Effective arrangements for information sharing
• Balancing effective law enforcement and public safety
• Harmonisation in transboundary emergencies
Supporting First Responders: fire, police, civil protection, medical, military-civilian disaster response
Examples include:
• Training, exercises and guidance/information materials
• Past experiences and lessons learned
• Challenges and considerations
• Use of innovative tools for dose monitoring (e.g., autonomous devices, virtual tools, remote monitoring, etc.)
Capacity Building
Examples include:
• Drill and exercise programs
• Feedback from ConvEx-3
• Opportunities for training, knowledge management, and education (Post-graduate programmes)
• Capacity Building Centres, and Member States offering capacity building
• Good practices on national training programmes, including classroom, remote, hybrid, and hands-on/practical training
• Capacity/Skill/Knowledge retention
Communication in Emergencies
Examples include:
• Advances in coordinating and delivering timely, clear, accurate, understandable, empathetic, and consistent messages
• Communicating across local, national regional, and international levels
• Communication strategies to mitigate radiological consequences (e.g. how people can reduce their own exposure)
• Communication strategies to mitigate non-radiological consequences
• Knowing your audience - the shift toward public acceptance of nuclear power
• Building trust in authoritative information
• Data to support an understanding on how disinformation and deception potentially trigger unwarranted behaviours
• Public communication strategies for facilitating termination and recovery
• Communication systems resiliency
• Dealing with social media during an emergency
Public Health and Medical Response
Examples include:
• Medical triage and management of mass casualty event
• Advances in bioassay and biodosimetry
• Practical aspects of iodine thyroid blocking (ITB)
• Management of psychological impacts
• Addressing other non-radiological consequences, either acute or long-term
• Lessons from COVID and other mass public health threats with application to EPR
• Development of radionuclide decorporation agents
• Decontamination
• Medical follow-up programmes
Coordination and Cooperation Mechanisms in Emergency Preparedness and Response
Examples include:
• Training, procurement, interoperability, mobility of resources
• Unified Command and Control System (UCCS) features & principles
• All-hazards approach
• Convention on Assistance - International Assistance: RANET experiences and perspectives
• Experiences in operating an Emergency Operations Centre
• Regional cooperation arrangements
• Lessons learned from coordinating different assistance mechanisms
Strategy for Establishing EPR arrangements for radiological emergencies in every Member State
Examples include:
• Non-nuclear and nuclear neighbours - harmonisation
• Border control
• Scrap metal
• High-activity radioactive sources
• Conditions for countries establishing radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical programmes (e.g., IAEA Rays of Hope initiative)
• Addressing nuclear and radiological emergencies within a national all-hazard emergency management system
• Radiological transport incidents and accidents
• Loss or theft of dangerous radioactive sources
• Malicious acts involving radioactive or nuclear material
