SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW
The International Symposium on Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Reactor Strategies: Adjusting to New Realities provided an in-depth picture of energy, economic, and technological developments shaping the future.
A Steering Group of senior experts from twelve IAEA Member States and two international organizations directed the Symposiumís organization over a number of years; it was chaired by Mr. M. Kratzer of the United States. Additionally, six Working Groups prepared six key issue papers with the participation of over 70 experts from 12 States - Argentina, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States - and the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the International Energy Agency, and the Uranium Institute. These papers represented the common international understanding on various aspects of nuclear fuel cycle and reactor strategy, with particular reference to the issue of plutonium, up to the year 2050, and were the result of two years of intensive work by the experts.
Altogether, more than 300 experts from 44 countries and five international organizations participated in the symposium, which received extrabudgetary financial support from Japan. In addition to the six issue papers, 24 invited papers were presented and 45 poster presentations were made. Also featured were addresses by leading experts and policy makers in the field, and the key issues were explored in discussions by the participants and a panel of experts from India, Republic of Korea, Japan, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The IAEA recently published the symposium's key issue papers in its Proceedings Series and, in December 1997, issued the orally presented papers as a Technical Document (IAEA-TECDOC-990).
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