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

17:00

17:00 - 20:00
Room: Hotel President Wilson, Geneva

Monday, 28 October 2013

07:20

07:20 - 07:30
Room: 80-1-001

07:30

07:30 - 08:45
Room: 80-1-001
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Jean-Pierre Revol (CERN)

09:15 Introduction of ThEC13 by representative of iThEC (C. Haegi, Former President of Geneva Government - C. Haegi (Former President of Geneva Government)

09:40 A Future for Thorium Power? - Carlo Rubbia (IASS, Potsdam, Germany; GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy)
10:20

10:20 - 10:30
Room: 80-1-001

10:30 Coffee / Conference Photo
Coffee / Conference Photo
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 80-1-001
11:00
11:00 - 13:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

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

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

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

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

13:00 Overview of European Experience with Thorium fuels - Didier Haas (Belgium)
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 80-1-001
15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

15:00 Overview of the Thorium Programme in India - Vijayan PALLIPPATTU KRISHNAN

15:30 The UK’s strategy on thorium nuclear technologies - Rob Arnold (U)

16:00 The Feasibility and Desirability of Employing Thorium Fuel Cycle for Power Generation - Bal Raj Sehgal (Royal Institute of Technology)

16:30 MYRRHA: A Flexible and Fast Spectrum Irradiation Facility - Ait Abderahim Hamid (SCK-CEN Mol, Belgium)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: 80-1-001
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

17:30 The Thorium Cycle: Past Achievements & Future Prospects - Dominique GRENECHE (Nuclear Consulting)

18:00 Thorium Molten Salts, Theory and Practice - Paul Madden (Queen's College, UK)

18:30 Flibe Energy LFTR Development Strategy - Kirk Sorensen (F)
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

08:30 An industrial view on Thorium: Possibilities, Challenges and Paths forward - Luc Van Der Durpel (AREVA, France)

09:00 Global and Turkish perspectives of Thorium fuel for nuclear energy - Muammer Kaya (E)

09:30 Opportunities and Challenges for Thorium in Commercial MSRs - Joel Turner (Rolls-Royce, UK) Tony Donaldson (Rolls-Royce, UK)

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

10:55

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

11:00 Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN)

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

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

12:15 Thorium in LWRs: first results from the ongoing irradiation campaign in the Halden Reactor - Øystein Asphjell (SCATEC, Oslo, Norway)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:30
Room: 80-1-001
14:30
14:30 - 17:00
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

14:30 Utilization Potential of Thorium in CANDU Reactors and in Fusion‐Fission (Hybrid) Reactors - Sümer Sahin (Atılım University, Turkey)

15:00 Introducing the thorium fuel cycle - Daniel Mathers (N)

15:30 Recycling Challenges of thorium-based fuels - Piaray Kishen Wattal (BARC, India)

16:00 Aqueous and Pyro-reprocessing - Sylvie DELPECH (C)

16:30 PSI Studies on Advanced fuel cycle options for Fast/Thermal MSR Utilizing Thorium - Jiri KREPEL (PSI, Switzerland)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: 80-1-001
17:30
17:30 - 18:00
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

17:30 Nuclear Data Development Related to Th-U Fuel Cycle in China - Haicheng WU (CIAE, China)
19:30 Conference banquet at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva
Conference banquet at Hotel President Wilson, Geneva
19:30 - 23:30
Room: Geneva
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

08:30 Nuclear Data Development Related to Th‐U Fuel Cycle in India - SRINIVASAN GANESAN (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

09:00 Nuclear Data for the Thorium fuel Cycle and Transmutation - F. Gunsing (CEA, France)

09:30 Fast Reactor Physics - K. Mikityuk (PSI, Switzerland)

10:00 Introduction to the Physics of Thorium Molten Salt Fast Reactors - Elsa Merle-Lucotte (IN2P3 / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 80-1-001
11:00
11:00 - 13:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

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

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

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

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

13:00 Accelerator development for ADSR - Roger Barlow (Huddersfield University, UK)
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:45
Room: 80-1-001
14:45
14:45 - 16:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

14:45 Spallation Target Developments - Michael Wohlmuther (P)

15:05 MEGAPIE: the world's first high-power liquid metal spallation neutron source - Christian Latgé

15:30 Thorium Target Design for Accelerator Driven-Molten Salt Reactors - Sajo-Bohus

16:00 Virginia ADS Consortium - Ganapati Myneni (Virginia Tech, USA)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Room: 80-1-001
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

17:30 KURRI Thorium-loaded ADS Experiment - Cheolho PYEON (Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Japan)

18:00 A Status and Prospect of Korea ADS - Jong-Seo Chai (Gangneung-Wonju National University (KR))
Thursday, 31 October 2013
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 80-1-001
Contributions

08:30 The Troisk ADS Project - Stanislav F. Sidorkin

09:00 China ADS projects - Lei Yang (IMP CAS, China)

09:30 Accelerator Driven Systems for thorium utilization in India - Shashikant Balwant Degweker (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

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

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

11:05 International cooperation - Anil Kakodkar

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

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

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

11:45 ADS accelerators - Mike Seidel (PSI)

11:55 ADS targets - Karel Samec (CERN)

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

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

12:45 - 13:15
Room: 80-1-001

13:15

13:15 - 13:30
Room: 80-1-001

13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 80-1-001

15:00

15:00 - 18:00
Room: 80-1-001