Symposia

Session 1 | Growing Demand for Nuclear Power: Implications for the Fuel Cycle

• Assessment of Nuclear Power Development and Growing Uranium Demand | P. Pradel, CEA
• Fuel Cycle Management in the US | Ernest Moniz, MIT
• International Collaboration in the Fuel Cycle | Victor Reis, DOE

Session 2 : Infrastructure Needs of the New Nuclear Era

• INL's Role in the Nuclear Renaissance | John Grossenbacher, INL
• How To Reconcile Medium Term Industrial Endeavors with Longer Term R&D Initiatives? How to Make National Initiatives Globally Consistent | J. Bouchard, CEA
• The Role of Systems Analysis in Fuel Cycle Development | Kathryn A. McCarthy, INL

Session 3 : Closing the Fuel Cycle: Priorities and Timetable

• Industry View of Fuel Recycling | Albert Machiels, EPRI
• Assessment of Strategies for Global Actinide Management in the Transition from LWRS to Fast Reactors in France | F. Carre / M. Delpech, CEA
• The Path Towards Advanced Fuel Cycles | Phillip Finck, INL

Session 4 : Actinide Burning: Role of Thermal and Fast Reactors

• The Role of LWRS in Actinide Management | Mujid Kazimi, MIT
• Merits of Fast Reactors for Efficient Use of Uranium Ore and Reduction of Ultimate Waste | J. L. Carbonnier, CEA
• Role of Gas Cooled Reactor | Francesco Venneri, GA

Session 5 : Recycling Technology Options

• R&D Program in France on Advanced Fuel Cycle Processes | P. Brossard, CEA
• Technology options for spent fuel recycling | James Laidler, ANL
• The interrelationship of spent fuel processing, actinide recycling, and geologic repository design | Roald Wigeland, ANL

Session 6 : Innovative Ideas for Future Technology and Policy

• Fast Reactors with Minimum Need for Fuel Reprocessing | Mike Driscoll, MIT
• CANDU and Dry Recycling Use in Actinide Management | Herb Feinroth, Gamma Engineering
• Do We Need Fast Actinide Burners for Waste Management? | Pavel Hejzlar, MIT

Session 7 : Economics of Recycling in an International Order

• Outlook on the Economics of Recycling: The French Experience | Eric Proust, CEA
• Economics of Near-Term Reprocessing of U.S. Nuclear Fuel -- And Other Benefits and Risks | Matt Bunn, Harvard University
• An Industrial Perspective on Recycling Costs | Alan Hanson, AREVA