International Symposium on

Nuclear Back-end Issues and the Role of Nuclear Transmutation Technology
after the accident of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Stations


東京電力 福島第一原子力発電所事故後の核燃料バックエンド問題と
核変換技術の役割国際シンポジウム
原子力安全基盤科学研究プロジェクト
KUR Research Program for Scientific Basis of Nuclear Safety

First Announcement

Second Announcement

Second Announcement (Japanese)

Programme & Abstracts

Programme

プログラム / Program

10:00-10:15  Opening remarks

10:15-10:45  Speaker : Mr. Hideki Masui (TEPCO)
The present status of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

10:45-11:15  Speaker : Prof. Kenji Yamaji (RITE)
Issues of  the High-Level Radioactive Waste

11:15-11:45   Speaker : Prof. Joonhong Ahn (University of California, Berkeley)
Geological Diposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste ,
Perspective and Contemporary Issues

11:45-12:15  Speaker : Dr. Akito Arima (Musashi Academy)
Expectation to nuclear transmutation

12:15-14:00  Lunch and poster session

14:00-14:30  Speaker : Dr. Thierry Dujardin(OECD)
OECD activities on the nuclear transmutation technology

14:30-15:00   Speaker : Prof.Hamid AïtAbderrahim (SCKCEN)
Contribution of the European Commission to a Europian Strategy for HLW Management through Partitionning & Transmutation. Presentation of MYRRHA and its in the Europian P&T strategy

15:00-15:30  Speaker : Dr. Hiroyuki Oigawa (JAEA)
ADS study in JAEA

15:30-16:00 Coffee break and poster session

16:00-16:30  Speaker : Prof. Cheol Ho Pyeon (KURRI)
Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) Study inKyoto University Research Reactor Institute (KURRI)

16:30-17:00  Speaker : Prof. Masayuki Igashira (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Nuclear data study for nuclear transmutation

17:00-18:00 Panel Discussion

18:00-18:15 Closing remarks

18:15-19:40 Reception




List of Topics

      1. Nuclear transmutation
            a. Reactor system
            b. Fuel cycle
            c. Material science

      2. Back-end cycle issues
            a. Radioactive waste treatment/disposal
            b. Public acceptance