Name: * Thorium Energy Conference 2013 (ThEC13) * CERN Globe of Science and Innovation
Start: 2013-10-27T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-10-31T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Monday, October 21, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013

5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Hotel President Wilson, Geneva

Monday, October 28, 2013

7:20 AM

7:20 AM - 7:30 AM
Room: 80-1-001

7:30 AM

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Room: 80-1-001
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN)

9:15 AM Introduction of ThEC13 by representative of iThEC (C. Haegi, Former President of Geneva Government - C. Haegi (Former President of Geneva Government)

9:40 AM A Future for Thorium Power? - Carlo Rubbia (IASS, Potsdam, Germany; GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy)
10:20 AM

10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 80-1-001

10:30 AM Coffee / Conference Photo
Coffee / Conference Photo
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 80-1-001
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

11:00 AM Towards sustainable, secure and safe energy future: Leveraging opportunities with Thorium - Anil Kakodkar

11:30 AM Thorium Energy R&D in China - HongJie XU (SINAP, China)

12:00 PM The Japanese Thorium Programme - Toshinobu Sasa (J)

12:30 PM Thorium Fuel Cycle activities in IAEA - Uddharan Basak (IAEA)

1:00 PM Overview of European Experience with Thorium fuels - Didier Haas (Belgium)
1:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

3:00 PM Overview of the Thorium Programme in India - Vijayan PALLIPPATTU KRISHNAN

3:30 PM The UK’s strategy on thorium nuclear technologies - Rob Arnold (U)

4:00 PM The Feasibility and Desirability of Employing Thorium Fuel Cycle for Power Generation - Bal Raj Sehgal (Royal Institute of Technology)

4:30 PM MYRRHA: A Flexible and Fast Spectrum Irradiation Facility - Ait Abderahim Hamid (SCK-CEN Mol, Belgium)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

5:30 PM The Thorium Cycle: Past Achievements & Future Prospects - Dominique GRENECHE (Nuclear Consulting)

6:00 PM Thorium Molten Salts, Theory and Practice - Paul Madden (Queen's College, UK)

6:30 PM Flibe Energy LFTR Development Strategy - Kirk Sorensen (F)
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

8:30 AM An industrial view on Thorium: Possibilities, Challenges and Paths forward - Luc Van Der Durpel (AREVA, France)

9:00 AM Global and Turkish perspectives of Thorium fuel for nuclear energy - Muammer Kaya (E)

9:30 AM Opportunities and Challenges for Thorium in Commercial MSRs - Joel Turner (Rolls-Royce, UK) Tony Donaldson (Rolls-Royce, UK)

10:00 AM Current Czech R&D in Thorium MSR Technology and Future Directions - Jan Uhlir (Research Centre Rez)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: 80-1-001

10:55 AM

10:55 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 80-1-001
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

11:00 AM Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN)

11:15 AM Thorium Nuclear Power and Non‐Proliferation - Hans BLIX (ex Director General of IAEA, Sweden)

11:45 AM The Road to Enablement for a Liquid-Fuel Reactor Fuelled by Thorium - John Durham (Weinberg Foundation)

12:15 PM Thorium in LWRs: first results from the ongoing irradiation campaign in the Halden Reactor - Øystein Asphjell (SCATEC, Oslo, Norway)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

2:30 PM Utilization Potential of Thorium in CANDU Reactors and in Fusion‐Fission (Hybrid) Reactors - Sümer Sahin (Atılım University, Turkey)

3:00 PM Introducing the thorium fuel cycle - Daniel Mathers (N)

3:30 PM Recycling Challenges of thorium-based fuels - Piaray Kishen Wattal (BARC, India)

4:00 PM Aqueous and Pyro-reprocessing - Sylvie DELPECH (C)

4:30 PM PSI Studies on Advanced fuel cycle options for Fast/Thermal MSR Utilizing Thorium - Jiri KREPEL (PSI, Switzerland)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

5:30 PM Nuclear Data Development Related to Th-U Fuel Cycle in China - Haicheng WU (CIAE, China)
7:30 PM Conference banquet at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva
Conference banquet at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva
7:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: Geneva
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

8:30 AM Nuclear Data Development Related to Th‐U Fuel Cycle in India - SRINIVASAN GANESAN (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

9:00 AM Nuclear Data for the Thorium fuel Cycle and Transmutation - F. Gunsing (CEA, France)

9:30 AM Fast Reactor Physics - K. Mikityuk (PSI, Switzerland)

10:00 AM Introduction to the Physics of Thorium Molten Salt Fast Reactors - Elsa Merle-Lucotte (IN2P3 / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 80-1-001
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

11:00 AM ADS Physics and Motivations - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN)

11:30 AM Review of Accelerators for ADS - Alex C. Mueller (CNRS-IN2P3, France)

12:00 PM Cyclotrons for ADS - P. Mandrillon (AIMA, France)

12:30 PM Euratom MAX Program: the MYRRHA Accelerator Experiment - Frederic Bouly (LPSC/CNRS)

1:00 PM Accelerator development for ADSR - Roger Barlow (Huddersfield University, UK)
1:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: 80-1-001
2:45 PM
2:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

2:45 PM Spallation Target Developments - Michael Wohlmuther (P)

3:05 PM MEGAPIE: the world's first high-power liquid metal spallation neutron source - Christian Latgé

3:30 PM Thorium Target Design for Accelerator Driven-Molten Salt Reactors - Sajo-Bohus

4:00 PM Virginia ADS Consortium - Ganapati Myneni (Virginia Tech, USA)
5:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

5:30 PM KURRI Thorium-loaded ADS Experiment - Cheolho PYEON (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Japan)

6:00 PM A Status and Prospect of Korea ADS - Jong-Seo Chai (Gangneung-Wonju National University (KR))
Thursday, October 31, 2013
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

8:30 AM The Troisk ADS Project - Stanislav F. Sidorkin

9:00 AM China ADS projects - Lei Yang (IMP CAS, China)

9:30 AM Accelerator Driven Systems for thorium utilization in India - Shashikant Balwant Degweker (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

10:00 AM The iThEC Strategy - Yacine Kadi (CERN)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 80-1-001
11:00 AM Round Table Discussion
Round Table Discussion
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

11:00 AM Introduction - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN)

11:05 AM International cooperation - Anil Kakodkar

11:15 AM Innovative Thorium Reactor concepts: MSR - Hamid Aït Abderrahim (SCK.CEN)

11:25 AM Thorium Fuel cycle - Yacine Kadi (CERN)

11:35 AM Thorium-Reactor Physics - Robert Cywinski (University of Huddersfield)

11:45 AM ADS accelerators - Mike Seidel (PSI)

11:55 AM ADS targets - Karel Samec (CERN)

12:05 PM ADS projects - Maurice Bourquin (University of Geneva)

12:15 PM Discussion: Next steps in thorium technology development and international collaboration framework
12:45 PM

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 80-1-001

1:15 PM

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: 80-1-001

1:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001

3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 80-1-001