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Day 1 - Wednesday 2nd July
- 8.30am - Arrival and Registration (George Fox Building)
- 9am - Welcome and Introduction
Nuclear Fuels and Nuclear Fuel Cycles
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9.10am | PLENARY- David Goddard (UKNNL, UK) |
Fuelling our Nuclear Future: Prospects and Challenges |
| 9.50am | Mik Bromley (Lancaster University, UK) |
Fabrication of UO2 Kernels for TRISO Coated Particle Fuels |
| 10:10am | Olivia Baldwin (UKNNL, UK) | Pilot Scale Production of Coated Particle Fuel Kernels |
| 10.30am | BREAK | |
| 11am | Lottie Harding (University of Bristol, UK) |
Exploring TRISO Ternary Phases |
| 11.20am | Akeel Ahmed (UKNNL, UK) | Fabrication of Simulated Spent Uranium Nitride Fuel |
| 11.40am | William Watson (Imperial College, UK) |
Phase Stability and Point Defect Mechanisms in Uranium Nitride (UN) |
| 12pm | LUNCH - Sponsor Talk Breakout by Netzsch | |
| 1.10pm | Florence Legg (ESRF, France) |
Investigating the Structural and Chemical Properties in the Oxidation of U-Th MOx |
| 1.30pm | Mathias Fulchiron (ICSM, France) |
Synthesis and Dissolution of Compounds Mimicking Irradiated MOx |
| 1.50pm | Lorenzo Callejon (ICSM, France) |
Impact of Hydroxide Precipitation on the Sintering and Chemical Durability of U1-xThxO2 solid solutions |
| 2.10pm | BREAK - Sponsor Talk Breakout by Lucideon | |
| 2.50pm | Emily Jane Watkinson (University of Leicester, UK) |
Cerium Uranium Oxides made via Sol gel as Potential Surrogates for Americium Uranium Oxides for European Radioisotope Power Systems |
| 3.10pm | Md Zahid Hasan (Bangor University, UK) |
Phase-field Modelling of Irradiation and Corrosion Damage in Nuclear Materials |
| 3.30pm | Simon Stephens (Bangor University, UK) |
Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy as a Method to Determine Grain Size or Grain Boundary Composition in Polycrystalline Oxides and Hydrides |
| 3.50pm | David Dunphy (University of Strathclyde, UK) |
Multispectral Imaging for Quality Assurance of UO₂ Nuclear Fuel Pellets |
- 4pm - Poster Session
- 6.30pm - End of day
Day 2 - Thursday 3rd July
Bruce Hanson Advanced Fuel Cycles
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9am | Colin Boxall (Lancaster University, UK) | Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles – the Work of Bruce Hanson |
| 9.20am | Robin Taylor (UKNNL, UK) |
Separation Processes for Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles |
| 10am | Tom Shaw (UKNNL, UK) | Optimising the Manufacture of DEHiBA to Support Next Generation Reprocessing Technologies |
| 10.20am | Alistair Baker (University of Leeds, UK) | From Benchtop to Pilot-Plant, The Nuclear Engineering Group (NEG) at the University of Leeds |
| 10.40am |
BREAK |
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| 11.20am | Cong Duan (Imperial College, UK) | Intensified Liquid-Liquid Extraction in Small Channel Contactors for the Separation of Lithium Isotopes |
| 11.40am | Richard Wilbraham (Lancaster University, UK) | Assessment of the Corrosion Vulnerability of Common Plant Materials in the EURO-GANEX Process |
| 12pm | Alistair Holdworth (University of Manchester, UK) |
Recovery of Strategic High-Value Fission Products from Spent Nuclear Fuel during Reprocessing |
| 12.20pm | LUNCH - Sponsor Talk Breakout by AWE Nuclear Security Technologies |
Environmental Science and Forensics
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 1pm | PLENARY - Katherine Morris (University of Manchester, UK) | Uranium Speciation and Fate in Environmentally Relevant Systems |
| 1.40pm | Louise Natrajan (University of Manchester, UK) | Optical Spectroscopic Identification of Uranium Biogeochemistry for Microscopic Analysis |
| 2pm | Charlotter Waters (University of Manchester, UK) | Developing U L3 and M4,5 -edge HERFD-XANES to Investigate Uranium (Bio)geochemical Processes in Decommissioning and Waste Disposal. |
| 2.20pm | BREAK - Sponsor Talk Breakout by Rolls-Royce | |
| 2.50pm | Stuart Dunn (Bangor University/AWE, UK) | Application of Laboratory-Based Photoelectron Spectroscopy with Hard and Soft X-rays to Uranium Oxide Characterisation |
| 3.10pm | Lucie Stetten (University of Manchester, UK) |
Fate of Uranium Phosphate Minerals in a Wetland Impacted by Former Uranium Mining Activities |
| 3.30pm | Eleanor Lawrence-Bright (ESRF, France) | In-situ investigation of the Radiolytic Dissolution of UO2 and UN |
| 3.50pm | Patrick Collins-Price (Lancaster University, UK) | Environmental and Forensic Applications of the Lancaster Accelerator Mass Spectrometer |
- 4.10pm - Optional Facility Tours (remain in George Fox Foyer)
- AMS/ADRIANA – Accelerator Mass Spectrometer/Advanced Digital Radiometric Instrumentation for Applied Nuclear Activities
- UTGARD - Uranium/Thorium Beta-Gamma Active Research and Development Laboratory
- SAFER - Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis with FIB, EBSD/EDS and Raman
- 6.30pm - Coach transfer to Lancaster Brewery (meet in George Fox Building)
- 7pm - Conference Dinner (Lancaster Brewery)
Day 3 - Friday 4th July
Waste Management
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9am | PLENARY - Luke Townsend (Nuclear Waste Services, UK) | An overview of the UK's research programme for the geological disposal of spent fuels: Current and future research themes |
| 9.40am | Patrick McLean (Lancaster University, UK) |
Corrosion Experiments of UO2 and Varied Burnup Value AGR Fuel Simulants |
| 10am | Daisuke Akiyama (Tohoku University, Japan) | Dry Synthesis of Cerium-containing Brannerite by Mechanochemical Treatment |
| 10.20am | Aidan Friskney (University of Sheffield, UK) | Ceramic Wasteform and Process Development for Pu Disposition |
| 10.40am | BREAK - Sponsor Talk Breakout by Verder Scientific | |
| 11.20am | Latham Haigh (University of Sheffield, UK) | Multimodal Probing of Structural Damage in Heavy-Ion Irradiated Ceramics for Pu Disposition |
| 11.40am | Lena Chen (University of Bristol, UK) |
Evaluating Disposal of Plutonium Wasteforms |
| 12pm | Hannah Lane (Lancaster University, UK) | An Exploration of the Contamination of AISI 304L Stainless Steel when Corroded in Nitric Acid-based MAGNOX Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Dissolver Simulant |
- 12.20pm - Closing Remarks
- 12.30pm - Conference Ends