Technical Meeting on Advanced Technology Fuels:Progress on their Design, Manufacturing, Experimentation, Irradiation, and Case Studies for their Industrialization, Safety Evaluation, and Future Prospects

Session

5

Future prospects of ATF

30 Oct 2025, 17:30

Vienna International Center

Conveners

5

• There are no conveners in this block

5

• Zoltan HOZER (Co- Chairs)
• Yongjun Jiao (Co- Chairs)

Description

• Effect of ATFs on occurrence and consequences of Fuel Fragmentation, Relocation, and Dispersal (FFRD),
• Definition of Post- Critical Heat Flux (CHF) Time at Temperature Limits
• Improved ATF designs
• Use of LEU+ with ATFs for High Burnup (HBU)
• Deployment of ATFs in Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)

51. ROLE OF ATF IN ENHANCING SMR PERFORMANCE

Koroush Shirvan

30/10/2025, 17:30

Future prospects of ATF

This paper overviews the impact of introducing Advanced Technology Fuels (ATFs) to SMRs (mainly water-cooled), in order to improve their performance while meeting their promised safety goals. Specifically, the application of coated zircaloy cladding, SiC cladding, helical-cruciform fuel, internally and externally cooled annular fuel, Thorium fuels, increasing the BWR and PWR lattice size will...

29. Current status of development and qualification of advanced technology fuel (ATF) in Russia

Alexander Radostin

31/10/2025, 09:00

Advances in ATF Materials and Manufacturing

Global trends in the development of nuclear power plants are related to the increased electricity generation, improved efficiency, and the environmental attractiveness of nuclear power generation, and are aimed at:
- ensuring the reliability and safety of nuclear power plants, including the development and introduction of new fuel modifications;
- improving the economic efficiency of the...

25. BWR perspective of industrial applications of ATF (high burnups, FFRD, time @ temperature)

BARIS sarikaya (constellation)

31/10/2025, 09:25

Future prospects of ATF

In an age that advanced nuclear reactors are at the forefront of the research community, we should not forget that future of the nuclear industry heavily depends on the safe, reliable, economic operation of the current LWR fleet. With the advances in modeling and simulation techniques, methodologies, tools, and with the significant operating experience, LWR fleet capacity factor and...

49. OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF CR-COATED ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL CLADDING IN LARGE PWRS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SMR APPLICATIONS

Youho Lee (Seoul National University)

31/10/2025, 09:50

Future prospects of ATF

OVERALL PERFORMANCE OF CR-COATED ACCIDENT TOLERANT FUEL CLADDING IN LARGE PWRS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SMR APPLICATIONS

Y. LEE1, D. KIM1, H. YOOK1, S. JOUNG1, H. RHO1, K. SHIM1, B. KWEON1

1Department of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Corresponding author: leeyouho@snu.ac.kr

After more than a decade of research into the performance of...

62. Discussion: IAEA future activity, including future CRP on ATF, and TM documentation strategy

All participants. Co-chairs of the sessions to lead

31/10/2025, 10:45

65. Summary of the meeting

The Co-Chairs of the sessions to provide summaries of the session discussion The Co- Chairs of the meeting to present the outcomes of the discussions and recommendations for future IAEA activities in the ATF area

31/10/2025, 11:45

The Co-Chairs of the sessions to provide summaries of the session discussion.
The Workshop Co- Chairs to present the outcomes of the discussions and recommendations for future IAEA activities in the ATF area

67. Closure of the meeting

31/10/2025, 12:45

66. Debriefing to Dir NEFW

Ms Anzhelika Khaperskaia (TL/ NFE&FCF/ NFCMS, Scientific Secretary)