| Wednesday, November 2 |
8:30–9:00 am |
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Registration |
9:00 –9:20 am |
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Welcome and Opening Remarks (Buongiorno, Kazimi and Sekimoto) |
9:30–Noon |
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Technical Session 1: Supercritical CO2 Power Conversion Cycle
Co-Chairs: Buongiorno (MIT), Y. Kato (TokyoTech) |
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- Supercritical Cycle for Gen-IV Reactors -- Overview of MIT work (Hejzlar, MIT)
- Overview of Supercritical CO2 Cycle Studies at TokyoTech (Kato, TokyoTech)
- Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers for Supercritical CO2 cycles (Dewson, Heatric)
- Design of Turbo-machinery for Supercritical CO2 Closed Brayton Cycle Power Plant
(Nichols and Fuller, Barber & Nichols)
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Noon-1:30 pm |
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Lunch Break |
1:30-4:45 pm |
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Technical Session 2: Innovative Fast Reactor Technologies
Co-Chairs: Todreas (MIT), Igashira (TokyoTech) |
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- Long-Life Core Design (Sekimoto, TokyoTech)
- Research Plan for High Efficiency Steam Lift Pump Type
LFR and Study on Removal of Pb-Bi Droplets in Steam Flow (Takahashi, TokyoTech)
- Alloy Development for Pb-Cooled Reactor Service (Ballinger, MIT)
Break (15 minute)
- Recent Results of Polonium Research for Pb-Bi Cooled
Reactors (Obara, TokyoTech)
- Gas Fast Reactor Design (Driscoll, MIT)
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6:30-8:30 pm |
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Banquet at the MIT Faculty Club
Guest speaker: Dr. James Lake, Associate Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory
"Idaho National Laboratory's Leadership Role in Nuclear Energy" |
| Thursday, November 3 |
9:00-9:45 am |
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MIT Campus Tour (Lobby of Building 7) |
9:45-10:30 am |
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Alcator Tour (NW17-218) |
10:30-11:30 am |
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MIT Reactor Tour (TokyoTech visitors
only, NW12) |
11:30-1:00 pm |
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Lunch Break |
1:00-3:00 pm |
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Technical Session 3: Poster Presentations, Stata Center, Bldg 32-123 |
3:30-5:00 pm |
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Rose Lecture by 2005 Nobel Laureate Dr. M. ElBaradei, IAEA Director General:
“Nuclear Technology in a Changing World: Have
We Reached a Turning Point?”
Stata Center, Bldg 32-123 |
5:00-6:00 pm |
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Rose Lecture Reception, Stata Center, Bldg 32-123 |
| Friday, November 4 |
8:30–Noon |
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Technical Session 4: Nuclear Hydrogen
Co-Chairs: Tester (MIT), Ikeda (TokyoTech) |
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- Fueling the Hydrogen Economy: Status of the US Program for Hydrogen Production using
Nuclear Energy (Schultz, GA)
- Innovative non-equilibrium chemical reaction processes
for nuclear hydrogen production (Y. Kato, TokyoTech)
- Hydrogen Production System with High Temperature
Electrolysis on Nuclear Power Plant (Matsunaga, Toshiba)
Break (15 minute)
- Intermediate Heat Exchanger (IHX) Designs (Kessili,
Brayton Energy)
- Design and Manufacturing Approach of Ceramic Heat
Exchanger for Thermo-Chemical Iodine-Sulfur Process (Minatsuki, MHI)
- A Novel Approach to Heat Exchanger Design: The Combination of Structural and Catalytic Functions via the Addition of Pt (Ballinger, MIT)
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Noon-1:30 pm |
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Lunch Break |
1:30-4:00 pm |
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Technical Session 5: Actinide Management and Safety Technologies
Co-Chairs: Pilat (MIT), Obara (TokyoTech) |
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- Approaches to Transmutation Fuel Cycles (Kazimi, MIT)
- Nuclide Separation Methods at Tokyo Tech (Ikeda and Suzuki,
TokyoTech)
Break (15 minute)
- Minor Actinide Cross-section Measurements (Igashira,
TokyoTech)
- Elements of proliferation resistance (Golay, MIT)
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4:00-4:15 pm |
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Closing Remarks (Kazimi and Sekimoto) |
