Monday

2013-10-28

07:30 - 08:45 Registration for those who could not register at the Reception at Hotel President Wilson on Sunday evening

Opening Ceremony (Chair: CERN DG)

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome (Rolf Heuer) (CERN DG) (10')

09:10 - 09:20 Introduction by representative of iThEC (C. Haegi, Former President of Geneva Government) (10') Nuclear R-D (Alexander V. Bychkov, IAEA) - Vladimir Fortov, President Academy of Sc. Russia - P.

09:20 - 09:50 Gillet, EPFL, Switzerland - Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman Reliance, India) tbc

09:50 - 10:30 Scientific opening of the Conference (Carlo Rubbia) (40')

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Conference Photo

Session 1

National & International Thorium Programs

11:00 - 11:30 Overview of the Thorium Programme in India (Ratan K. Sinha) (DAE, India) tbc

11:30 - 12:00 Thorium Energy R-D in China (Hongjie Xu) (SINAP, China) to be replaced tbc

12:00 - 12:30 Russian Thorium Programme (Victor A. Matveev) (Academy of Sc., Russia) tbc

12:30 - 13:00 Thorium Fuel Cycle activities in IAEA (Uddharan Basak) (IAEA)

13:00 - 13:30 Overview of European Thorium Research Activities (Didier Haas) (EU Commission)

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch

Session 2

National & International Thorium Programs (Cont.)

15:00 - 15:30 The MYRRHA project (Hamid Ait Abderahim) (SCK-CEN Mol, BE)

15:30 - 16:00 Thorium Energy R-D at the CIAE (WeiPing Liu) (CIAE, China) to be replaced tbr

16:00 - 16:30 The Thorium Cycle: Past Achievements - Future Prospects (Dominique Grenèche, ex-CEA, France)

16:30 - 17:00 The Japanese Thorium Programme (Toshinobu Sasa) ( JAEA, Japan)

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee

Session 3

Innovative Thorium- Reactor Concepts (incl. Industrial Programmes)

17:30 - 18:00 Molten Salt Reactors (MSR) (Jess C. Gehin) (ORNL, USA) tbc

18:00 - 18:30 Thorium Molten Salts, Theory and Practice (Paul Madden) (Queen's College, UK)

18:30 - 19:00 The South African TH-100 Pebble Bed Reactor (Frederik Reitsma, STL) (South Africa)

Tuesday

Session 4

Innovative Thorium- Reactor Concepts (incl. Industrial Programmes) (Cont.)

08:30 - 09:00 AREVA's strategy for thorium (Luc Van Der Durpel) (AREVA)

09:00 - 09:30 Innovative Thorium-Reactor Concepts (Yixin Zhang) (Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, China) tbc

09:30 - 10:00 Opportunities to exploit thorium in civil nuclear systems (R. Swinburn) (Rolls-Royce, UK) tbc

10:00 - 10:30 Innovative Thorium-Reactor Concepts (HaiHong Xia) (Nuclear Power Technology Group, China) tbc

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

Session 5

Innovative Thorium- Reactor Concepts (incl. Industrial Programmes) (Cont)

11:00 - 11:30 Heavy Water Thorium Power Reactor (HWPR) concepts for India (Shri S. Basu) (BARC, India) tbc

11:30 - 12:00 Global and Turkish perspectives of Thorium fuel for nuclear energy (Muammer Kaya) (Osmangazi University, Turkey)

12:00 - 12:30 Free Slot

12:30 - 13:00 Halden Thorium Experiment (Øystein Asphjell) (Halden, Norway)

13:00 - 13:30 Nuclear Data for the Thorium fuel Cycle and Transmutation (F. Gunsing, CEA, France)

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch

Session 6

Thorium- Fuel Cycle - Transmutation

15:00 - 15:30 Advanced nuclear fuel cycles (Charles Forsberg) (Director of MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study) (USA)

15:30 - 16:00 Introducing the thorium fuel cycle (Fiona Rayment) (NNL, UK)

16:00 - 16:30 Recycling Challenges of thorium-based fuels (P.K. Wattal) (BARC, India)

16:30 - 17:00 Transmutation aspects in the context of the thorium fuel cycle (Michael Todosow) (BNL, USA) tbc

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee

Session 7

Thorium- Fuel Cycle - Transmutation

17:30 - 18:00 Pyro-electric reprocessing (Mark Williamson) (ANL, US)

18:00 - 18:30 Free slot

18:30 - 19:00 PSI Studies on Advanced fuel cycle options for Fast/Thermal MSR Utilizing Thorium (Jiri Krepel) (PSI, Switzerland)

19:30 Conference banquet at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva

Conference banquet talk delivered by a high level personnality (to be announced)

Wednesday

Session 8

Thorium- Reactor Physics

08:30 - 09:00 ADS Physics and Motivations (J.P. Revol) (iThEC/CERN, Geneva)

09:00 - 09:30 Fast Reactor Physics (K. Mikityuk) (PSI, CH)

09:30 - 10:00 Thorium MSR Physics (Elsa Merle-Lucotte) (Grenoble, France)

10:00 - 10:30 Free slot

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

Session 9

Accelerator- Driven Systems

11:00 - 11:30 Review of Accelerators for ADS (A.C. Muller) (CNRS, France)

11:30 - 12:00 Cyclotrons for ADS (P. Mandrillon) (AIMA, FR)

12:00 - 12:30 Euratom MAX Program: the MYRRHA Accelerator Experiment (Jean-Luc Biarotte) (IPN-Orsay, France)

12:30 - 13:00 Accelerator development for ADSR (Roger Barlow (Huddersfield, UK)

13:00 - 13:30 Spallation Target Developments (Michael Wohlmuther) (PSI) tbc

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch

Session 10

Accelerator- Driven Systems

15:00 - 15:30 MEGAPIE: the world's first high-power liquid metal spallation neurton source (Christian Latgé) (CEA, France) tbc

15:30 - 16:00 Virginia ADS Consortium (Ganapati Myneni) (Virginia Tech, USA)

16:00 - 16:30 The Troisk ADS Project (Stanislav F. Sidorkin) (INR-Troisk, Russia)

17:00 - 17:30 Coffee

17:30 - 18:00 Ukraine ADS Project at KIPT (Mohamed Yousry Gohar) (ANL, USA)

18:00 - 18:30 KURRI Thorium-loaded ADS Experiment (Cheolho PYEON) (Kyoto, Japan)

Thursday

Session 11

Accelerator- Driven Systems

08:30 - 09:00 China ADS project (Speaker still to be chosen)

09:00 - 09:30 India ADS project (Speaker still to be chosen)

09:30 - 10:00 The iThEC Strategy (Y. Kadi) (CERN and iThEC)

10:00 - 10:30 Proliferation Resistance of the Thorium Fuel Cycle (William J. Nuttall) (Open University, UK) tbc

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

Session 12

Round Table Discussion

11:00 - 13:00 Introduction: 5 times 5 minute presentations by each chair of the 5 general subjects:

– National - International Thorium Programs

– Innovative thorium reactor concepts

– Thorium reactor physics

– Accelerator-Driven Systems

– Thorium fuel and transmutation

Discussion on: next steps in thorium development and international collaboration framework

12:30 - 13:00 A look into the future of thorium technologies (high profile speaker to be chosen)

13:00 - 13:30 Closing Ceremony (Egil Lillestol, Andreas Norlin)

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch

End of ThEC13