ICENES 2000 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

17:00 - 20:00 Registration

20:00 - Get-together reception

9:00 Welcome by Local Organizers - A.M. Versteegh

by Standing Committee - J.M. Martinez-Val

9:30 Organizational matters - A. van Heek

9:35 Key-note presentation: Sustainability, a New Challenge for Nuclear Power! - W. von Lensa, FZJ

10:30 Key-note presentation: Capsule Design Issues for Z-Pinch Driven Inertial Fusion Energy - T.A. Mehlhorn, SNL

11:00 Key-note presentation: The Future of Nuclear Energy - B. Barré, Cogéma

11:30 Key-note presentation: Prospects of Nuclear Energy and Desalination - T. Konishi, J. Kupitz and P.E. Juhn, IAEA

12:00 lunch

13:30 Thermal stresses in the core a fast energy amplifier cooled with lead under normal operating conditions including reactor scram and secondary pump trip - P.W.P.H. Ludwig, A.H.M. Verkooijen

13:55 A conceptual neutronics design study for next generation neutron source in Kyoto university research reactor institute (KURRI) - A.Yamamoto, S. Shiroya

14:20 Lead/Bismuth-cooled, thorium based ADS and critical systems meet sceptic's criteria - H.U. Wider, J. Karlsson, A.V. Jones

14:45 Experimental investigation of multiplying subcritical media coupled with an accelerator: The MUSE experiments - J.F. Lebrat, R. Soule, C.A. Bompas, G. Rimpault, G. Aliberti, J.P. Chauvin, G. Granget, M. Salvatores, P. Chaussonnet, J.M. Laurens, C. Destouches, J.L. Belmont, A. Billebaud, R. Brissot, M. Fruneau, A. Giorni, J.M. Loiseaux, J.B. Viano, Ph. Wachtarczyk, J. Vergnes, P. Barbrault, D. Verrier, B. Carluec

• An analysis of neutron sources for accelerator driven systems - M. Piera, S. Fan, J.M. Martínez-Val
• Nuclear and thermal-hydraulic analysis of pebble-bed transmutators - J.M. Martínez-Val, P.T. Leon, D. García, M. Piera, A. Pérez-Navarro
• Evaluation of neutron sources for ADTW system - P. Vertes, A. Brolly
• The design study of HYPER target system - T.Y. Song, G.C. Kim, S.H. Chi, N.I. Tak, W.S. Park, J.S. Cho, Y.S. Lee
• MYRRHA: Design of a windowless spallation target for a prototype accelerator driven system - K. Van Tichelen, P. Kupschus, H. Aït Abderrahim, J.-M. Seynhaeve, H. Jeanmart, G. Winkelmans, F. Roelofs, E. Komen
• Analysis of alternative target design, materials and safety aspects in inertal fusion systems - G. Velarde

16:10 Dynamic modelling of a nuclear gas turbine cogeneration plant for control system design - J.F. Kikstra, A.H.M. Verkooijen

16:35 Measurement and analysis of shutdown rod worths in LEU-HTR configurations - M. Rosselet, R. Chawla, O.P. Joneja, T. Williams

17:00 Fuel optimization for the ACACIA nuclear cogeneration plant - E.C. Verkerk, J.B.M. de Haas, A.I. van Heek, J.C. Kuijper, J. Oppe

17:25 HTTR criticality, physical parameters calculations and experimental results - J.B.M. de Haas, E. Türkcan

8:30 Analysis of transients in a fluidized bed nuclear reactor - J.L. Kloosterman, V.V. Golovko, H. van Dam, T.H.J.J. van der Hagen

8:55 The self-stabilizing criticality wave reactor - H. van Dam

9:20 A long life lead-bismuth cooled reactor with candle burnup - H. Sekimoto, K. Ryuu

9:45 Performances of a small molten-salt power reactor operated in thorium-uranium fuel-cycle - K. Mitachi, T. Suzuki, T. Takahashi, R. Yoshioka

10:10 The NEREUS approach to broader applications on the nuclear technology - G.A.K. Crommelin, H. van Dam

11:10 Second progress report on the IAEA coordinated research program on the potential of Th-based fuel cycles to constrain Pu and to reduce the long-term waste toxicity - H.J. Rütten, V. Arkhipov, A. Stanculescu

11:35 Plutonium elimination in transmutation reactors - J.M. Martínez-Val, E. Mínguez, J. Manuel Perlado, P.T. Leon

12:00 Transmutation method using neutron irradiation targets of actinide-hydrides - K. Konashi, B. Tsuchiya, M. Yamawaki, K. Fujimura, T. Sanda, M. Teshigawara

12:25 Transmutation of actinide in fusion reactors and related systems analysis - E.T. Cheng, C.P.C. Wong

• Molten salt fuel fast reactor in the future equilibrium state - H. Sekimoto, T. Murakami
• Innovative heat exchanger for FBRs - Y. Nishi, I. Kinoshita
• Sensitivity studies for a thorium breeder reactor design with the nuclear data libraries of WIMS library update project - V. Jagannathan, S. Ganesan, R. Karthikeyan
• Analysis of fuel enrichment effects investigated in the PROTEUS-LWHCR phase II experiments - R. Chawla, H. Hager, J.M. Paratte, R. Seiler, T. Williams, H.D. Berger, R. Böhme
• Numerical investigation of the single phase natural convection in sump cooling experiments with the FLUTAN code - L.N. Carteciano, B. Dorr, G. Grötzbach
• On the criticality property of ²³³Pa derived from various nuclear data files using the NJOY and the MCNP codes - S. Ganesan, H. Wienke

15:00 A thin foil fuel fission plasma propulsion reactor with very high specific impulse - H. Takahashi

15:35 Direct energy conversion in fission reactors: A U.S. NERI project - S. Slutz, D.B. Seidel, G.F. Polansky, G.R. Rochau, R.P. Lipinski, G. Besenbruch, L.C. Brown, T.A. Parish, S. Anghaie, D.E. Beller

15:50 Thorium fuel cycle based on natural uranium and ²³³U with the use of LWR and FR - Z. Chizhikova, V. Dekoussar, V. Iluynin, A. Kalashnikov, M. Troyanov

16:15 Application of the nuclear photon engines for space studies - A.V. Gulevich, Eu.A. Ivanov, O.F. Kukharchuk, V.Ya. Poupko, A.V. Zrodnikov

8:30 Experimental studies of the transmutation of actinides in high intensity neutron fluxes - G. Fioni, O. Deruelle, M. Fadil, Ph. Leconte, F. Marie, D. Ridikas

8:55 Optimal distribution of fuel, poisons and diluents in sub-critical cores dedicated to waste transmutation - K. Tucek, J. Wallenius, J. Carlsson, W. Gudowski

9:20 Americium and curium isotopes transmutation in accelerator driven systems - A.S. Gerasimov, T.S. Zaritskaya, G.V. Kiselev

9:45 Fast channel-type accelerator-driven subcritical systems for transmutations - S. Taczanowski, J. Cetnar, G. Domanska

10:40 Fuel cycle performance indices in a high-converting LWR core design with once-through thorium fuel cycle - M-H. Kim, K-H. Kim, Y. Kim

11:05 Long-life water cooled small reactor with U-Np-Pu fuel - K. Nikitin, M. Saito, M. Kawashima, V. Artisyuk, A.. Chmelev

12:00 Non-linear characteristics of thermohydraulic instabilities in innovative BWRs - W.J.M. de Kruijf, R. Zboray, A. Manera, T.H.J.J. van der Hagen, H. van Dam, R.F. Mudde

12:25 Concept of a non-meltable heavy water cooled and moderated pebble-bed-reactor - Z. Alkan, E. Kugeler, M. Elicker, W. Grätz, R. Heuss, A.. Zucker

8:30 Fusion from a μZ-pinch compressed by a cylindrical liner - L. Bilbao, J.G. Linhart, G. Verri

8:55 Inertial confinement fusion with superpower heavy ion driver and cylindrical target - D.G. Koshkarev, M.D. Churazov

9:20 Energy and momentum deposition effect of alpha-particles in the stagnation phase of ICF plasmas - Y. Kuroki, Y. Nakao, T. Johzaki, K. Kudo, M. Ohta

9:45 Z-pinch driven fusion energy - S.A. Slutz, C.L. Olson, G.E. Rochau, M.S. Derzon, P.F. Peterson, J.S. De Groot, N. Jensen, G. Miller

10:10 Ion distribution functions and 14-MeV neutron generation rate in D-3He field-reversed configuration plasmas - H. Matsuura, Y. Nakao, K. Kudo, Y. Tomita, M. Ohta

• Topological solitons in the inertial confinement fusion; combined with Determination of transport mean free path for runaway electrons in a plasma corresponding to the inertial confinement fusion - J.F. Miramar Blázquez
• Advanced fuel target in HIF - A.G. Aksenov, M.D. Churazov
• Cylindrical implosions by magnetic compression driven by Z-pinches - S. Eliezer, I. Vorobeichik, Z. Henis, J.M. Martínez-Val, M. Piera
• Two-dimensional diffusion code for calculating alpha-particle effects in ICF plasmas - T. Johzaki, Y. Nakao, K. Kuroki, K. Kudo, A. Oda, M. Ohta

11:10 Preliminary design studies for a 100 MW energy amplifier prototype - A. Abánades, A. Pérez-Navarro

11:35 The energy amplifier demonstration facility: the neutronic analysis of high energy beam - target interaction in the energy amplifier demonstration facility; combined with Thermal-hydraulic analysis of the beam target - Y. Kadi, S. Buono, C. Aragonese, G. Fotia, L. Maciocco, V. Moreau, L. Sorretino

12:00 A pebble-bed gas-cooled ADS system based on resonance enhanced transmutation - C. Rubbia, J.M. Martínez-Val, M. Piera, A. Abánades, A. Castro, D. Iñiguez, A. Pérez-Navarro

12:25 MYRRHA: A multipurpose accelerator driven system for research & development - H. Aït Abderrahim, P. Kupschus, E. Malambu, Ph. Benoit, K. Van Tichelen, B. Arien, F. Vermeersch, Y. Jongen, S. Ternier, D. Vandeplassche

14:00 IAEA activities on emerging nuclear systems – T. Konishi, J. Kupitz, A. Stanculescu, V. Arkhipov

14:30 Conference wrap-up fission - H. van Dam

15:00 Conference wrap-up fusion - T.A. Mehlhorn

15:30 Closing Adress from the Standing Committee - J.M. Martinez-Val

15:40 The next ICENES Conference - T.A. Mehlhorn

15:50 Closing Address from the Local Organizing Committee - A.H.M. Verkooijen