Programme

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Uranium Science is pleased to recognise the following companies for helping to sponsor this event: Rolls-Royce, AWE Nuclear Security Technologies, Nuclear Waste Services, LUCIDEON, and Netzsch.

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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

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 AQW 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

Poster Presentations

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