Name: IAEA Technical Meeting on Advances and Innovations in Fast Reactor Design and Technology
Start: 2025-09-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-03T18:00:00+02:00
Location: IAEA HQ, Vienna

IAEA Technical Meeting on Advances and Innovations in Fast Reactor Design and Technology

from Monday 29 September 2025 (08:00) to Friday 3 October 2025 (18:00)

Monday 29 September 2025
10:00
10:00 - 10:50
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

10:00 Opening Remarks - Aline CLOIZEAUX (IAEA, NENP Director) Mikhail Chudakov (IAEA Deputy Director General, Head of Nuclear Energy Department)

10:20 World Status of Fast Reactor Technology Development - Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA)

10:35 IAEA Activities and Events on Fast Reactor Technology - Nicole VIRGILI (IAEA)
10:50 Fast Reactors in National and International Nuclear Energy Programmes
Fast Reactors in National and International Nuclear Energy Programmes
10:50 - 13:20
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

10:50 Introduction to the Overall Design of Metallic Fast Reactor of the CiFR1000 - Fang-Yuan Xue (CIAE)

11:50 BN-1200M New Generation Reactor Plant - Sergei Rogozhkin (JSC Afrikantov OKBM) Tatiana Ishchenko (Afrikantov OKBM JSC)

12:20 Status of U.S. Fast Reactor Development - David Grabaskas (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:50 Recent Developments Toward a Fleet of Fast Reactors in France - Vincent Barbe (EDF)
13:20 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:20 - 14:50
14:50 Advanced Fuels and Materials
Advanced Fuels and Materials
14:50 - 18:25
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

14:50 IAEA Activities on Fuels for Fast Reactors - Anzhelika Khaperskaia (IAEA)

15:10 Fuel Qualification for Gen-IV Systems – Case of MOX Fuels - Natalie Chauvin (CEA)

16:10 Status of U.S. Fast Reactor Fuel Research Development and Deployment - Colby Jensen (Idaho National Laboratory) Nicolas Woolstenhulme (Idaho National Laboratory)

16:40 Determination Of Carbide Fuel Maximal Burnup For Allegro Gas Cooled Fast Reactor - Jan Doskočil (ÚJV Řež)

17:10 Environmental Degradation Testing of Alloy 709 - Andrea Jokisaari (Idaho National Laboratory) Caleb Massey (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Tuesday 30 September 2025
10:00 Fast Reactors in National and International Nuclear Energy Programmes
Fast Reactors in National and International Nuclear Energy Programmes
10:00 - 15:00
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

10:00 Fast Reactors Activities in Romania - Mirela Nitoi (RATEN ICN)

10:30 Development and Implementation of the Commercial EAGLES-300 Program - Marco Caramello (Ansaldo Nucleare)

11:00 Update on GFR R&D Program in Czechia - Petr Vácha (UJV Rez, a. s.)

12:00 ALLEGRO, the Gas Fast Reactor Demonstrator, Advancement and challenges - Boris Kvizda (VUJE, a.s.)

12:30 Fast Reactor R&D in PIONEER - Ferry Roelofs (NRG PALLAS)

14:30 Conceptual Design for the Pool-Type Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (1) General plan and core design - Shigenobu Kubo (Deputy Director Advanced Fast Reactor Cycle System R&D Center, JAEA)
15:00 Advanced fast reactor and core designs, including SMRs
Advanced fast reactor and core designs, including SMRs
15:00 - 17:30
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

15:00 ESFR-Like Plutonium Burners: Design and Safety Studies - Yoshiharu Tobita (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

16:00 Progress of the Fast Modular Reactor Conceptual Design - Hangbok Choi (General Atomics)

16:30 HEXANA: design and development of a sodium-cooled fast modular reactor to decarbonize industry - Nicolas Zweibaum (HEXANA)

17:00 Track 3. General Discussion
18:30 Hospitality Event
Hospitality Event
18:30 - 19:50
Room: TBD
Wednesday 1 October 2025
10:00 Experimental facilities and databases
Experimental facilities and databases
10:00 - 12:50
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

10:00 IAEA Advanced Reactor Information System (ARIS) - Katya Slavcheva (IAEA)

10:20 Transition From Forced to Natural Circulation Assessment in Circle-Thetis Experimental Facility - Simone Gianfelici (ENEA)

10:50 Key Milestones of NEWCLEO’S Thermal-Hydraulic Experimental Programme - Fabio Moretti (newcleo)

11:50 Experimental Infrastructure in Support of R&D and Licensing Process for Lead Fast Reactor Technology - Marin Constantin (RATEN ICN)

12:20 Investigation and qualification of Nuclear Materials for Gen-IV Lead Fast Reactor - Marco Utili (ENEA)
12:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 - 14:20
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
14:20 Innovative systems and components
Innovative systems and components
14:20 - 16:20
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

14:20 Conceptual Design of a Micro Nuclear Energy System with Integrated Heat Pipe Cooled Reactor and Molten Salt Heat Storage - Dong Huang (Xi’an Jiaotong University)

14:50 Hydraulic Design and Development of Passive Safety Shutdown System of Indian SFR - Piyush Kumar Aggarwal (Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India)

15:50 Experimental Demonstration and Performance Evaluation of Passive Decay Heat Removal System of PFBR - Sathishkumar S (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)
Thursday 2 October 2025
10:00 Innovative systems and components
Innovative systems and components
10:00 - 12:30
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

10:00 CFD Simulation of Long-Term Cooling of Corium in ALLEGRO Core Catcher - Jan Komrska (ÚJV)

10:30 Design of a Flow Redistribution Device for the Annular Section of a Reflux Type Electromagnetic Pump Using CFD - Partha Sarathy Uppala (IGCAR) Ram Kumar Maity (IGCAR)

11:30 Component Development and Testing for Fuel Handling Machines in Sodium Fast Reactors at Argonne National Laboratory - Alexander Grannan (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:50 Bearing Testing in Liquid Sodium for Fast Reactor Technology - Evan Ogren (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:10 IAEA Activities on SMR Technology Development - M. Hadid SUBKI (IAEA)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:40
13:40
13:40 - 15:10
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

13:40 Introduction by Speakers - Mirela Nitoi (RATEN ICN) Partha Sarathy Uppala (IGCAR) Shigenobu Kubo (JAEA) Simone Gianfelici (ENEA) Amparo GONZALEZ ESPARTERO (IAEA)

14:20 Q&A and General Discussion
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 IAEA
IAEA
15:30 - 16:50
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

15:30 INPRO Activities in Innovative Fast Reactor Technologies - Carolynn SCHERER (IAEA - INPRO)

15:50 Overview of IAEA activities on advanced fuel cycles - Amparo GONZALEZ ESPARTERO (IAEA)

16:10 Overview of IAEA activities on the safety of Fast Reactors’ - Vincenzo Tiberi (IAEA)

16:30 IAEA International Network for Experiments and Code Validation Sharing (NEXSHARE) - Benoit Lepouzé (IAEA)
16:50
16:50 - 17:50
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

16:50 Design of Cover Gas Purification System for Fast Breeder Reactor - Hemanath MG (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India) PARTHA SARATHY UPPALA (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research)

16:50 Conceptual Design for the Pool-Type Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (3) Basic concept of reactor structure - Shinichiro Matsubara (Mitsubishi FBR systems)

16:50 Conceptual Design for the Pool-Type Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (2) General plan for research and development - Kenta Ichikawa (Mitsubishi FBR Systems INC.)

16:50 International Collaboration on Severe Accident Studies for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Development in JAEA - Hidemasa Yamano (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) Shigenobu Kubo (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Friday 3 October 2025

10:00

10:00 - 11:00
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: M2 (M-Building, 1st Floor)
Contributions

12:15 Closing remarks

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