Track and Title

Typical Technical Topics

TRK 1
Safety and security

safety analysis; safety features; severe accidents; extreme accidents; accident management; emergency planning; post Fukushima; stress testing; human performance; seismic margin; probabilistic analysis; risk assessment; safety culture

TRK 2
Operation and maintenance

operation availability; maintenance; inspection; reliability; capacity factor; stress testing; outage management; fuel performance; addressing; ageing and obsolescence; power uprating; improvement and modification; component replacement; supply chain

TRK 3
New Buildings

new reactors; advanced power reactors; nuclear physics and thermal hydraulic; safety analysis; safety features; severe accidents; extreme accident; accident management; emergency planning; post Fukushima; stress testing; human performance; seismic margin; probabilistic analysis; risk assessment; nuclear code and standards; practically elimination of large release radioactivity

TRK 4
Waste management, spent fuel, decommissioning

designing for environment protection; new process and technology; evaluation of environment effects; waste stream management and reduction; waste and nuclear fuel transportation; decommissioning and environmental remediation; waste disposal; waste packaging; new requirements and standards.

TRK 5
Supply chain and quality management

supply capability; quality control; new manufacturing technology; equipment qualification; seismic analysis and testing; dealing with NCR; new requirements and standards

TRK 6
Fuel cycle

uranium and thorium mining; milling; refueling; conversion and enrichment; Uranium and thorium fuel manufacturing; fuel design; fault-tolerant fuel design; fuel storage; used fuel recycling and reprocessing.

TRK 7
Digital reactor and new technology

digital reactor; big data; artificial intelligence; advanced reactor physics; modern fuel cycles; new materials; efficiency enhancement

TRK 8
Innovative reactors and new applications

fusion; Gen IV reactors; SMR; heat pipe reactors; hydrogen production; space, mining and military application; safety analysis; pre-licensing communication with safety authority; prototype and verification testing; desalination.

TRK 9
Irradiation effects

Neutronirraiationos；Ionirradiation；Multi-scale modeling;Remote sensing technique for hot cell;Irradiation effects;Radiation-resistance materials

TRK 10
Public acceptance and education

educating & partnering with public; communication; social impacts; opinion surveys; public hearing; radiation protection; radiation health effects; lessons learned from Fukushima; linear-no-threshold issues; outreach.

TRK 11
Economics

economics and financing; manufacturing and modularity; standardization application; design and construction; supply chain assurance; market and competitive challenges

TRK 12
Medical and biological applications

medical and biological systems; treatments and protocols; new isotope manufacture; novel and construction; supply chain assurance; handing waste streams; economics; international trends; isotope production and use; agricultural applications

TRK 13
Student Program

To encourage the active participation of students in PBNC2022 by submitting high quality technical papers on the various nuclear topics. Students in this track will be expected to make a technical presentation as well as to design a poster summarizing their work to be exhibited during PBNC2022 and discussed during poster session.