International PLiM Symposium 2007

As about half of all worldwide installed NPPs have over 20 years of operation, plant life management issues and activities for continued operation are a topic of great relevance to the future of nuclear power plant. To meet Member States’ wishes, the 2nd international symposium on plant life management (PLiM) will be held on October 15-18 2007 at Shanghai, China. In this connection the technical meeting was held from 4 - 6 April 2006 at VIC to prepare the structure and scientific programme for the 2nd international symposium on PLiM with following items with 28 technical committee members from 22 MS and 2 the international organizations.

Tentative list of sessions and topics,
Structure of opening session,
Title and topics to be addressed in the session papers,
Structure for panel discussion on current national approaches to plant life management,
Invited papers and keynote presentation,
Technical tour, and
Organization arrangement from host organization

7 technical sessions with topics including panel discussion were decided as follows:

Session A: Opening, plenary and keynote presentations
Session B: Approaches to plant life management
Session C: Economics of plant life management
Session D: Ageing management and related operational programme
Session E: SSC design modification, modernization, refurbishment and replacement
Session F: Managerial issues concerned with plant life management
Session n G: Regulatory issues concerned with plant life management
Panel discussion on current national approaches to plant life management.

Key dates

Deadline to submit an electronic version of abstracts	04 March 2007
Deadline to submit paper submission forms (Form B) and copy of abstracts through official channels	14 March 2007
Deadline to submit grant application forms (Form C) through official channels	14 April 2007
Deadline to submit the copy of full papers	14 July 2007