Tentative Program Schedule

Updated 20151001

Sunday Oct 11, 2015

19:00 – 20:00 Registration
20:00 – 22:30 Welcome Reception

Monday Oct 12, 2015

09:30 – 10:30 Inaugural Session

Presentation of Bouquet to Chief Guest & Other dignitaries

Welcome Address by Chairman, International Scientific Advisory Committee, ThEC15

Address by Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Center
Address by Vice-Chancellor, Homi Bhabha National Institute
Address by CMD, Nuclear Power Corporation India Limited

Address by Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission

Address by Chief Guest

Award ceremony for the Thorium Energy Prize 2015

Vote of Thanks by Convener
Inauguration of Exhibition

10:30 – 11:00 High Tea

11:00 – 11:45 Gateway to Thorium Energy in Global Context, Dr. Carlo Rubbia, CERN, Switzerland (Plenary-1)
11:45– 12:15 Philosophy of future ready thorium reactors designs, R. K. Sinha, Chairman Atomic Energy Commission, India (Plenary-2)
12:15– 12:45 Harnessing thorium for nuclear power: challenges ahead, Anil Kakodkar (Plenary-3)
12:45 – 13:15 Sustainability: Role of Thorium, Bjorn Stigson, ex Pres. WBCSD, Sweden (Plenary-4)

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 14:45 India, P. K. Vijayan, BARC: Indian nuclear power programme - role of thorium and the challenges ahead

14:45 – 15:15 China, Xiang-Zhou Cai, TMSR: An Overview of the Thorium utilization of TMSR program

15:15 – 15:45 EU, Jiri Krepel, PSI: Molten Salt Reactor related research in Europe: SAMOFAR and Switzerland

15:45 – 16:45 Poster Session 1 - Tea and Coffee

16:45 – 17:05 Japan, Toshinobu Sasa, JAEA: Thorium research activities in Japan
17:05 – 17:25 Turkey, Görkem GÜNGÖR, Energy and Natural Resources: Thorium research and development in Turkey
17:25 – 17:45 Brasil, Claubia Pereira, DEN: Role of Thorium for long-term energy planning in Brasil

17:05 – 17:25 Dassault Systemes
17:25 – 17:45 Fujitsu

Tuesday Oct 13, 2015

09:00 – 09:20 Steenkampskraal Thorium Ltd
09:20 – 09:40 Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd

09:40 – 10:00 Canada, Robert Speranzini, CNL: Role of Thorium in Canadian Energy Security
10:00 – 10:20 South Africa, Trevor Blench, STL: Thorium Activities in South Africa
10:20 – 10:40 Belgium, Thomas Cardinaels, SCK CEN: Thorium energy research in Belgium
11:00 – 12:00 Poster Session 2 - Tea and Coffee

12:20 – 12:40 Australia, Lyndon Edwards, ANSTO: Thorium research and Development in Australia
12:00 – 12:20 Indonesia, Yudiutomo Imardjoko, INUKI: Roadmap Toward Building Thorium-based Nuclear Power Plant in Indonesia
12:20 – 12:40 Malaysia, Meor Yousoff Din Meor Sulaiman, Malaysia Nuclear Agency: Thorium research and Development in Malaysia

12:40– 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 Reprocessed fuel Spiked with Thorium in a PWR and Hybrid Systems, Claubia Pereira, UFMG, Brasil
14:30 – 15:00 The evolutionary adoption of thorium beginning with its application in niche LWR fuels, Saleem Drera, Thor Energy, Norway
15:00 – 15:30 Feasibility Study of a Pilot Scale Molten Salt Reactor Demonstration, Rory O’Sullivan, Energy Process Developments Ltd, UK
15:30 – 16:30 Poster Session 3 - Tea and Coffee

16:30 – 17:00 LFTR: In search of the Ideal Pathway to Thorium Utilization — Development Program & Current Status, Benjamin Soon, Flibe Energy, Singapore
17:00 – 17:30 Static Fuel Molten Salt Reactors - Simpler, Cheaper and Safer, Ian Scott, Moltex Energy, UK

17:30 – 18:00 L&T Valves


18:30 - 19:30 Cultural Program
20:00 - 22:30 Conference Banquet

Wednesday Oct 14, 2015

09:00 – 09:20 Pepperl + Fuchs
09:20 – 09:40 Forbes Marchall

09:40 – 10:10 Experience of thorium irradiation in Indian PHWRs, Ashok Chauhan, NPCIL, India
10:10 – 10:40 Thorium Convertor - A doable Molten Salt Reactor, Ganapati Rao Myneni, ThorCon
10:40 – 11:40 Poster Session 4 - Tea and Coffee

Enabling Technologies: ADS - 1	Reactor Design - 1
11:40 - 12:10
Accelerator – Driven Systems – the iThEC Strategy, Jean-Pierre C. Revol, iThEC, Switzerland	Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor: Vector for thorium utilization, P. Chellapandi, BHAVINI, India
12:10 - 12:40
SAMOFAR Project, PSI, Switzerland	Thorium Utilization in fast reactors in a crossed-progeny fuel cycle, Balraj Sehgal, KTH, Sweden
12:40 - 13:10
Virginia ADS Consortium - Thorium Utilization, Ganapati R. Myneni, Uni Virginia, USA	Technology Considerations for Deploying Thorium Power Reactors, Mathias Krause, IAEA, Vienna

13:10– 14:30 Lunch

Enabling Technologies: ADS - 2	Reactor Design - 2
14:30 - 15:00
Accelerator Driven Sub-critical Systems: design challenges, S. B Degwekar, BARC, India	A walkthrough of the Copenhagen Atomics Waste Burner Design, Thomas Jam Pedersen, Copenhagen Atomics, Denmark
15:00 - 15:30
Introducing the Seaborg Wasteburner, Asger Listoft Longreen, Seaborg, Denmark	Monte Carlo investigations of mixed oxide fuel consisting of Thorium and Nuclear Waste Actinides in Modular High Temperature Reactor and CANDU Reactors, Sumer Sahin, Atilim Uni, Turkey
15:30 – 16:00
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Thoria Road Map Project, Rosaura Ham-Su, CNL, Canada	Feasibility and Deployment Strategy of Water Cooled Thorium Breeder Reactor, Naoyuki Takaki, Tokyo City Uni, Japan

16:00 – 17:00 Poster Session 5 - Tea and Coffee

Irradiation Experiments	Reactor Design - 1
17:00 - 17:30
Physics considerations for utilization of thorium in power reactors, P. D. Krishnani, BARC, India	Irradiation experiment of thorium in FBTR, G. Srinivasan, IGCAR, India
17:30 - 18:00
Nuclear waste, thorium based accelerators and transmutation, Seung-Woo HONG, SKKU, South Korea	Remote handling of thoria based fuels, K. Jayarajan, BARC, India

Thursday Oct 15, 2015

09:30 – 10:00 S. Banerjee, DAE: Nuclear power from Thorium - Different options (Plenary - 4)

10:00 – 11:00 Poster Session 6 - Tea and Coffee

11:00 – 11:30 Thorium: Purification and Metal Production, S. B. Roy, BARC, India

11:30 – 12:00 Thorium based fuel reprocessing: present status and future challenges, P. K. Wattal, BARC, India

12:00 – 12:30 Chemistry at front and back-end of thorium fuel cycle, K. L. Ramakumar, BARC, India

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Thorium fuel fabrication and challenges, Arun Kumar, BARC, India

14:00 – 14:30 Experimental and theoretical studies of thermo-physical properties and phase transformation behaviour of thorium based alloys and oxides, G. K. Dey, BARC, India

14:30 – 15:00 Thermodynamic and transport properties of thorium based fuels, B. N. Jagatap, BARC, India

15:00 – 15:30 Tea and Coffee

15:30 – 16:00 Thorium reserves: potential for power generation, exploration and mining, R. N. Patra, Indian Rare Earth Ltd, India

16:00 – 16:30 Regulatory aspects of thorium mining and milling, R. Bhattacharya, AERB, India

16:30 – 17:00 Award Distribution to Poster Contest Winners

17:00 – 18:00 Panel Discussion: The Way Forward

19:00 – Closing of Conference

Friday Oct 16, 2015

07:30 Departure for Tarapur

18:00 Return to Mumbai