Name: IAEA Technical Meeting on Proliferation Resistance Features of Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles
Start: 2025-08-18T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-21T13:30:00+02:00
Location: IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

IAEA Technical Meeting on Proliferation Resistance Features of Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles

from Monday 18 August 2025 (13:00) to Thursday 21 August 2025 (13:30)

Monday 18 August 2025
13:00
13:00 - 14:40
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

13:00 Opening Remarks - Mikhail Chudakov (DDG, Head of NE Department)

13:20 Status of Fast Reactor Technolgy Development - Vladimir Kriventsev (IAEA)

13:40 IAEA Activities and Events on Fast Reactor Technology - Nicole Virgili (IAEA)

14:00 Safeguards Considerations for Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles - Alexis Chanel Trahan (IAEA)

14:20 Safeguards and Protection – an important Key Element from IAEA Reactor Technology Assessment Methodology - Katya Slavcheva (IAEA)
14:40
14:40 - 17:40
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

14:40 Application of INPRO Methodology to Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles - Carolynn Scherer (IAEA - INPRO) Divya Bojja (IAEA)

15:10 Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection (PR&PP) Evaluation Methodology in Support of PR&PP by Design for Fast Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles - Bryan van der Ende (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)

16:10 Proliferation Resistance Insights for Fast Reactors: A U.S. and International Perspective - Benjamin Cipiti (Sandia National Laboratories)

16:40 Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Crosscutting Topics Application to GIF GEN IV Energy Systems and to Siting Study for AMRs and Microreactors - Frédéric Nguyen (CEA)

17:10 Proliferation Resistance Assessment Methodology Development of a Methodology for Proliferation Resistance Optimisation of Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycle Using Intrinsic Attributes - Karen Hogue (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
17:40

17:40 - 18:10
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Tuesday 19 August 2025
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

10:00 Assessing a Proliferation Resistance Methodology: Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) Case Study - Sunil Sunny Chirayath (ORNL)

10:30 IAEA ONCORE Initiative - Nicole Virgili (IAEA)

11:30 ALFRED Proliferation Resistance Features - Mirela Nitoi (RATEN ICN)

12:00 Track 2 General Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M4 (M-Building)
14:00
14:00 - 17:01
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

14:00 Overview of IAEA Activities on Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options - Amparo Gonzalez-Espartero (IAEA)

14:30 Experiences in Metal Fuel Fabrication Technology Towards a Remote Re-Fabrication Facility - Prabhu TV (IGCAR Kalpakkam)

15:30 Neutronic Performance of the (U-Pu)O2 and (U-Pu)N Fuels in the Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor and the Impact on the Proliferation Resistance - Nader Mohamed (EgyptianAtomic Energy Authority, ETRR-2, Cairo, Egypt)

16:00 Non-proliferation aspects of advanced recycling for fast reactors fuel cycle. Overview - Alexander Bychkov (Independent Nuclear Expert)

16:30 Proliferation resistance of fuel cycle of fast reactors in the Proryv project - Alexander Zherebtsov (JSC Proryv)

17:00 (not presented) A Preliminary Study of a Potential Frond-End Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Fed By a Pebble Bed Reactor’s Spent Fuel - Dany Mulyana (Research Center for Nuclear Reactor Technology) not attended
17:01
17:01 - 18:36
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

17:01 Fuel Cycle Facilities: Co-located (integrated) on-site versus centralized reprocessing plant - Alexander Bychkov (Independent Nuclear Expert) Alexandr Zherebtsov (JSC Proryv) Prabhu TV (IGCAR Kalpakkam)
18:40 Hospitality Event
Hospitality Event
18:40 - 20:00
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Wednesday 20 August 2025
10:00
10:00 - 12:30
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

10:00 An In-situ Feed Monitoring System for Molten Salt Reactors - With Fast Neutron Energy Spectrum Molten Salt Reactor Applications - Karen Hogue (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:30 Ultrasonic In-Core Fuel Identification for Safeguarding Larger Core SMRs - Bryan van der Ende (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories)

11:30 Assessing the Safeguardability of TerraPower's Natrium Reactor - Grant Spence (TerraPower, LLC)

12:00 Track 4 General Discussion
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: M4 (M-Building)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

14:00 Enhancing Proliferation Resistance for Small SFR - Andrei Rineiski (Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT))

14:20 Long life reactor core from the view-point of proliferation resistance - Vladimir Artisiuk (IAEA)

15:10 Discussion - Andrei Rineiski (Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT)) Vladimir Artisiuk (IAEA) Janne Wallenius (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Thursday 21 August 2025
09:50
09:50 - 13:00
Room: M4 (M-Building)
Contributions

10:00 Neutronic Evaluation of U-Mn Alloy as an Alternative Fuel for the Dual Fluid Reactor - Semra Daydas (IAEA)

10:30 General Discussion and Summary - Giacomo Cojazzi Jared Johnson Logan Scott Andrei Rineiski Anne Saturnin Alexander Bychkov Bryan van der Ende Nicole Virgili

11:30 Final Discussion and Conclusions

12:00 Closing remarks - Aline Des Cloizeaux (IAEA)