Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy

In co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency

Held in conjunction with the U.S.-Russia Exchange Workshops on Blanket and Fusion Concept for the Transmutation of Actinides and Technical and Engineering Problems of Spherical Torus Volumetric Neutron Source

Preliminary Agenda (Feb 21, 2001)

Location: Room T-120, General Atomics, San Diego, CA

Wednesday, March 21
Opening Session
9:00	Opening Remarks by the Sponsoring Organizations, Participating Exchange Programs, and Hosting Organizations	Curt Bolton, USDOE Alex Stanculescu, IAEA Sam Berk, USDOE Nikolay Obysov, MINATOM Clement Wong, GA
	Coffee/Tea Break
Technical Sessions
9:45	Session I: Major International Programs on Nuclear Waste Transmutation
	IAEA Activities Within the Framework of the Project Technology Advances in Fast Reactors and Accelerator Driven Systems for Actinide And Long-lived Fission Product Transmutation'	Alex Stanculescu, IAEA
	Advanced Accelerator Applications and Accelerator Transmutation of Waste	Denis Beller, LANL
	Review of the ISTC projects related to transmutation problems	Lev Tocheny, ISTC
	Transmutation Research Activities in, ASIPP	Yican Wu, ASIPP
	Discussion
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Session II: Critical Reactors for Transmutation
	Design of an Actinide-Burning Lead or Lead-Bismuth Cooled Reactor	Steve Herring, INEEL
	Parametric Studies for Optimization of a Graphite-Moderated Molten Salt Transmuter	Micah Lowenthal, UC-Berkeley
	Discussion
2:30	Coffee/Tea Break
2:45	Session III: System Studies of Fusion-driven Transmutation Systems
	Tokamak Transmutation of Waste--A Second Generation Waste transmutation System	Denis Beller, LANL
	Characteristics of a Tokamak Fusion Neutron Source for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transmutation	Bill Stacey, GIT
	Assessment of the Actinide Burn Performance of an A=2 Toroidal Device	Clement Wong, GA
	Optimal Performance for a Fusion-Neutron-Driven Commercial Waste Transmutation Facility	Charles Bowman, ADNA
	Transmutation of Transuranic Elements and Long-lived Fission Products in Fusion Devices	Y. Gohar, ANL
	Discussion
5:30	Adjourn
Thursday, March 22
9:00	Session IV: Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Data, Coolant and Separation Technologies
	Radiation Balance Between Natural Uranium and Radwaste	Alexander Lopatkin, RDIPE
	Augmentation of the Separations Cycles of an Actinide Burner with Plasma Separation Techniques	Bernard Eastlund, ESEC
	Importance of Nuclear Data in the Neutronics of Transmutation Blankets	Amit Raj Sharma, IPR
	Feasibility of Molten Salt Cores/Blankets Fueled with TRU Trifluorides: Review of Russian Experimental Studies	V.V.Ignatiev, Kurchatov
	Importance of the Fission Products for the Performance of the Molten Salt Blanket	Danas Ridikas, CEA
	Discussion
11:00	Coffee/Tea Break
11:00	Technical Tour - DIIID Fusion Device
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Session V: Subcritical Transmutation Reactor/Blanket Concepts
	Comparative Assessment of the Transmutation Efficiency of Plutonium and Minor Actinides in Fusion/fission Hybrids and Accelerator-driven Systems	Yacine Kadi, CERN
	Transmutation of Minor Actinides in a Spherical Tokamak Fusion Reactor	Kaiming Feng, SWIP
	Proposal for Neutronics Benchmarking of Transmutation Reactions in Molten Salt Fuel	Dmitry Makovskij, Kurchatov
3:30	Coffee/Tea Break for 15 min.
	Preliminary Analysis of a Fusion Driven Thorium Burner	Vicent Tang, MIT
	Neutron Spectrum and Transmutation Rate of Actinides in a Thermonuclear Reactor	Victor Muratov, RDIPE
	Adaptation of the ANL Pb-Bi Cooled, Metal Fuel Subcritical Reactor for Use with a Tokamak Fusion Neutron Source	Ed Hoffman, GIT
	Characteristics of Promising Transmutation Blanket Concepts	Ed Cheng, TSI
	Discussion
6:00	Adjourn
7:00	Dinner
Friday, March 23
9:00	Session VI: Fusion Neutron Source Concepts
	Neutron Source based on Gas-Dynamic Trap	Edward Kruglyakov, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
	Aspects of Mirror-Based Neutron Sources for Transmutation of Actinides	Dmitri Ryutov, LLNL
10:00	Coffee/Tea Break for 15 min.
	National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) Mission, Design and Results	Charles Neumeyer, PPPL
	Using of Spherical Torus (with aspect ratio 2) as a Volumetric Neutron Source	Englen Azizov, Triniti
	Discussion
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Discussion on Unfinished Items Adjourn

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