Research Facilities for the Future of Nuclear Energy Proceedings of an ENS Class 1 Topical Meeting

The ENS Class 1 Topical Meeting on “Research Facilities for the Future of Nuclear Energy” provided an international scientific and technical forum for a broad review, at world level, of the large research facilities, dedicated for tests for nuclear energy production, which are existing, under construction, or planned for the future. The research facilities covered during the conference are those supporting R&D programmes related to the operation of nuclear reactor power plants and the development of new concepts in the areas of material testing, nuclear data measurements, code validation, fuel cycle, reprocessing, and waste disposal. The conference was relevant to a wide range of people such as the operators and managers of research facilities, research organizations that depend on the facilities for results, young professionals who will shape future requirements, nuclear utilities, vendors (fuel, components), service and engineering companies, designers, plant operators, waste management agencies, licensing authorities, and the decision makers. Contents:Overview of the Materials Testing Reactors in the World (E Koonen)Overview of the Fuel Cycle Research Facilities. Where we are? Where we have to go? (N Camarcat)Out-of-Pile Facilities for Nuclear Safety Research (B R Sehgal)Overview of Nuclear Data Measurements Facilities in OECD Countries (J L Rowlands & Ph Bioux)Nuclear Research Institutes in NEA Countries (G H Stevens & E Bertel)General Problems Specific to Hot Nuclear Materials Research Facilities (G Bart)Utilizations of Research Reactor in China (Y-S Wang & X-H Jin)Perspectives for Nuclear Power and Objectives of Advanced Nuclear Power Systems (J Delvoye)Objectives of Advanced Nuclear Power Systems (P Bacher)Fuel Concepts in Support of Advanced Nuclear Power Plant Operation (J J R Rycroft)The Case and Concept for a Proposed New Canadian Irradiation Research Facility (A G Lee et al)An Accelerator Driven Sub-Critical System: The ADONIS-Project (L Van Den Durpel et al)Multi-Channel Pulse Graphite Reactor MIGR (A P Vasilyev et al)REX 2000, A New Materials Testing Reactor Project (F Merchie et al)and other papers dealing with research facilities and their use for nuclear energy production research Readership: General readers, researchers, managers and workers in industries interested in nuclear engineering and energy. keywords: