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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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
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| Technical
Sessions
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| 9:45 | Session
I: Major International Programs on Nuclear Waste Transmutation
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| 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
| Progress in Fusion-Driven Transmutation
Research in China
| Yican Wu, ASIPP
| Discussion
| 12:00 | Lunch
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| 1:30 | Session
II: Critical Reactors for Transmutation
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| 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
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| 2:45 | Session
III: System Studies of Fusion-driven Transmutation Systems
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| Tokamak Transmutation of Waste --
A Second-Generation Waste transmutation System
| Denis Beller, LANL
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Characteristics of a Tokamak Fusion Neutron
Source for Spent Nuclear Fuel Transmutation
| Bill Stacey, GIT
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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
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Transmutation of Transuranic Elements and
Long-lived Fission Products in Fusion Devices
| Y. Gohar, ANL
| Discussion
| 5:30 | Adjourn
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| Thursday, March 22
| 9:00 | Session
IV: Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Data, Coolant and Separation Technologies
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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
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| 1:30 | Session
V: Subcritical Transmutation Reactor/Blanket Concepts
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| 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.
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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
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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
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| Friday, March 23
| 9:00 | Session
VI: Fusion Neutron Source Concepts
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| 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.
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National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)
Mission, Design and Results
| Charles Neumeyer, PPPL
| Investigations
of VNS for Minor Actinides Transmutation
on the Base of Spherical Tokamaks with Aspect Ratio A=2
| Englen Azizov, Triniti
| Discussion
| 12:30 | Lunch
| 2:00 | Discussion on Unfinished Items | Adjourn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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