TOPICS
Conference Scope
- Fuel performance and operational experience
- fuel operation regimes
- refueling and reloading patterns
- fuel and control rods performance
- technologies and equipment for fuel visual inspection
- fuel discharge burn-up
- fuel element and fuel assembly failures
- mixed core performance
- reprocessed uranium fuel operation
- Improvement of fuel design and operation
- extended fuel cycles
- new requirements for fuels
- advanced technology fuel (ATF)
- advances in design, materials and manufacturing
- fuel fabrication experience and perspectives
- upgraded and new type fuels for extended burn-up and load-follow regimes
- operational requirements for fuels fabricated from reprocessed uranium
- Fuel modelling and experimental support
- general concepts and computer codes
- models for individual processes and components
- material properties, fabrication specifications, tolerances
- on-line measurements and results of post-irradiation examinations at pool-side and in hot-cells
- irradiation tests in commercial and research reactors
- nuclear fuel data bases
- modelling and experimental simulation of RIA, LOCA and severe accident conditions
- Fuel safety and QA
- safety criteria, safety programs
- licensing in operational conditions including mixed cores
- licensing in RIA, LOCA and severe accident conditions
- licensing criteria for fuel assembly design improvements
- fresh fuel safety transportation and handling
- quality assurance
- WWER fuel issues in the light of Fukushima accident
- Spent fuel performance and management
- spent fuel performance at short-term and long-term storage
- advanced methods for safe spent fuel storage
- spent fuel transportation and transportation licensing
- spent fuel accident analysis and management
- Specific issues of WWER-1000 fuel reliability
- WWER-1000 fuel zero failure
- operational experience of WWER-1000 fuel
- manufacturing technology and quality assurance
- measures to identify the failure causess
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