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International Atomic Energy Agency in co-operation with the
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the Uranium Institute


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hosted by the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority
on behalf of the Government of Egypt

International Seminar on Status and Prospects for Small
and Medium Sized Reactors

Cairo, Egypt
27 - 31 May 2001

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

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SUNDAY, 27 MAY 2001
17.00 - 19.00 REGISTRATION
19.30 Reception
MONDAY, 28 MAY 2001
08.00 - 09.00 REGISTRATION (Continuation from Sunday, 27 May 2001)
09.00 - 10.00

Opening Addresses:

Host Country Officials
M. ElBaradei, Director General, IAEA
L. E. Echávarri, Director General, OECD/NEA
J. B. Ritch III, Secretary General, Uranium Institute

 
----- Coffee Break -----
10.15 - 12.30 SESSION 1: KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
KN1
"Global Energy Supply and Demand and the Potential Role of Nuclear Power"
(J. Murray, WEC)
KN2
"SMR features to meet specific challenges"
(V.M. Mourogov, IAEA)
KN3
"International trends affecting SMR development"
(L. E. Echávarri, OECD/NEA)
KN4
"SMR Technology Evolution"
(W.D. Magwood, IV, USA)
 
----- Lunch Break -----
14.00 – 15.45 SESSION 2: PANEL ON THE CHALLENGES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM REACTOR DEPLOYMENT
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
86
"Proliferation Aspects of SMRs"
(T. Shea, IAEA)
88
"Infra-structure requirements for successful deployment of nuclear power"
(M.K. Rao, IAEA)
78
"Technical Initiatives for SMR Development"
(G. Marcus, USA)
41
"Status and Prospects of Small Reactors in Russia"
(V.S. Bezzubtsev, Russian Federation)
79
"Status of Non-Nuclear Technologies"
(M. Woodruff, IEA)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
16.00 - 18.30 SESSION 3: ECONOMICS AND FINANCING
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
69
Economic and Financing Issues of Nuclear Power – Indian Experience"
(K.J. Sebastian, India)
76
"Can SMRs be competitive?"
(E. Bertel, OECD/NEA)
56
"Status of PBMR"
(D. Nicholls, South Africa)
58
"Economic Assessment of SMART in Korea"
(M.K. Lee, Republic of Korea)
3
"Economics of Advanced LWR at SMR Power Range in Developing Countries"
(P.C. Florido, K.H. Kyung, Argentina)
33
"The Economics of Medium Sized Reactors in Deregulated Markets"
(K. Hesketh, UK)
12
"The Role of Nuclear Energy in Southeast Asia"
(T. Kobayashi, M.S. Kazimi, S.R. Connors, Japan)
6
"Economic competiveness of SMRs in Belarus"
(A.A. Mikhalevich, A.P. Yakushan, V.T. Kazazyan, Belarus)
TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2001
08.30 - 10.00 SESSION 4: SMALL AND MEDIUM REACTOR FUEL CYCLES
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
85
"Potential for enhancing proliferation-resistant nuclear power plants"
(H. Bengelsdorf, USA)
54
"Non-proliferation aspects of the PBMR Fuel Cycle"
(J. F.M. Slabber, South Africa)
49
"An innovative fuel cycle concept with non-proliferation and waste considerations for Small and Medium Sized Reactors"
(J. Choi, IAEA)
52
"Building proliferation resistance into the nuclear fuel cycle"
(R. Leslie, J. Carlson, V. Bragin, Australia)
25
"Advanced fuel cycle options for CANDU-6 reactors in Korea"
(Ho Chun Suk, Republic of Korea)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
10.15 - 12.30

SESSION 5: WATER COOLED REACTORS

No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
45
"Unattended reactor facility autonomous small nuclear power plant "
(L.A. Adamovich, G.I. Grechko, V.A. Shishkin, Russian Federation)
35
"The IRIS reactor design characteristics"
(M.D. Carelli, B. Petrovic, L.E. Conway, C.V. Lombardi, M.E. Ricotti et al.,
USA)
41
"Status and prospects of small reactors in Russia"
(V.S. Bezzubtsev, K.V. Zverev, Yu. D. Baranaev, Yu. A. Sergeev, Russian
Federation)
20
"Design of passively safe small reactor for distributed energy system and technology development"
(T. Ishida, T. Kusunoki, N. Odano, N. Nakajima, M. Ochiai, Japan)
4
"CAREM: An advanced integrated PWR"
(A. Santecchia, M.V. Ishida Fukami, Argentina)
2
"CAREM Project development activities"
(M.V. Ishida Fukami, A. Santecchia, Argentina)
28
"Advanced design features adopted in SMART"
(M.H. Chang, J.W. Yeo, Republic of Korea)
27
"600 MWe class KSNP design"
(Tae Sun Ro, Republic of Korea)
 
----- Lunch Break -----
14.00 - 15.00

SESSION 5: WATER COOLED REACTORS (Continued)

No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
23
"An innovative conceptual design of safe and simplified Boiling Water Reactor (SSBWR)"
(J. Yamashita, M. Ohtsuka, K. Fujimura, Y. Kato, Japan)
32
"NPP with VK-300 Boiling Water Reactor for power & district heating grids"
(Yu. N. Kuznetsov, A.A. Romenkov, Yu. I. Tokarev, Russian Federation)
9
"Development of enabling technologies for the advanced Heavy Water Reactor"
(R.K. Sinha, A. Kakodkar, India)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
15.15 - 16.30 SESSION 6: GAS COOLED REACTORS
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
(11, 19, 22)
"Overview of Japanese HTGR development study"
(S. Shiozawa, Japan)
The above presentation by Mr. Shiozawa is a composite presentation of the following three papers (11,19 and 22) which will not be presented but will appear in the proceedings of the Seminar
11
"Present Status of HTTR Project and Perspective of HTGR in Japan"
(S. Shiozawa, O. Baba, Japan)
19
"Perspective of HTGR and its Commercial Development"
(H. Sekimoto, S. Shiozawa, Y. Tsuchie, H. Hayakawa, M. Saigo, Japan)
22
"Current Views on Commercialization of Small and Modular HTGRs in Japan"
(Y. Tsuchie, S. An, T. Hayashi, Japan)
39
"The technical design and safety features for 10 MW HTGR test reactor"
(Z. Wu, China)
72
"GT-MHR International Program and related Russian technology developments"
(A.I. Kiryushin, N.G. Kodochigov, Russian Federation)
21
"A carbon dioxide cooled direct cycle fast reactor"
(Y. Kato, Y. Yoshizawa, T. Nitawaki, Japan)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
16.45 - 18.30 SESSION 7: LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
47
"The encapsulated nuclear heat source reactor for low-waste proliferation-resistant nuclear energy"
(D. Wade, J. Sienichi, N. Brown, Q. Hossain, M. Carelli et al., USA)
16
"Long life multipurpose small size fast reactor with liquid metallic-fuelled core"
(T. Sawada, A. Netchaev, H. Endo, H. Ninokata, Japan)
18
"Liquid metal cooled small reactors (MDP & 4S) in CRIEPI"
(I. Kinoshita, A. Minato, Japan)
37
"A long-life small reactor for developing countries 'LSPR'"
(H. Sekimoto, S. Makino, K. Nakamura, Y. Kamishima, T. Kawakita, Japan)
73
"Small Power Sodium Cooled Fast Nuclear Reactors"
(A.I. Kiryushin, B.A. Vasiliev, V. Yu. Sedakov, Russian Federation)
46
"Nuclear power complex based on SVBR-75 small reactors cooled by lead-bismuth liquid metal coolant, competitiveness, simplified life cycle, safety, non-proliferation"
(B.F. Gromov, O.G. Grigoriev, A.V. Dedoul, G.I. Tochinsky et al.,
A.V. Zrodnikov, Russian Federation)
WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2001
08.30 - 10.00 SESSION 8: PANEL ON INCENTIVES FOR INTRODUCTION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM REACTORS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
89
(M.D. Benhima, Morocco)
80
(A. Hamid, Egypt)
67
(A. Kakodkar, India)
90
(R. Cirimello, Argentina)
91
(I. Rotaru, Romania)
82
"Comments on the Introduction of SMRs in Developing Countries"
(Vo Van Thuan, Vietnam)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
10.15 - 12.30 SESSION 9: APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
92
"An overview of SMR applications"
(J. Kupitz, IAEA)
59
"Canadian Experience in Deploying SMRs & Plans for Future Deployment"
(D. Torgerson, K. Hedges, J.M. Hopwood, Canada)
68
"Experience from Introduction and Operation of SMRs in India"
(V.K. Chaturvedi, India)
40
"Prospects of Small Light Water Reactors Utilization"
(A.I. Kiryushin, F.M. Mitenkov, Yu. K. Panov, V.I. Polunichev, Russian Federation)
48
"Bilibinskaya nuclear power plant operation experience and prolongation in excess of the designed operation period"
(V.V. Dolgov, Russian Federation)
60
"The present role and the future of the small and medium sized reactors in Bulgarian electricity generation industry"
(I. Hinovski, M. Stoev, Bulgaria)
24
"Small sized reactor for laser radiation"
(G.A. Batyrbekov, Kazakhstan)
 
----- Lunch Break -----
14.00 - 14.45 SESSION 9: APPLICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE (Continued)
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
57
"Development and application of an advanced construction management system"
(Jae Oh Song, Republic of Korea)
17
"Medium reactor concept and construction/manufacture technologies in Hitachi"
(K. Moriya, K. Ushiroda, Japan)
74
"Participation of SMART development based on the construction experiences from the nuclear power plant in Korea"
(Y.J. Choo, S.H. Lee, Republic of Korea)
14.45 - 16.30 SESSION 10: NUCLEAR DESALINATION
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
83
"Perspectives of nuclear desalination of seawater by SMRs"
(T. Konishi, P. Gowin, J. Kupitz, IAEA)
14
"A distinctive coupling concept of small natural circulation BWR and RO desalination system"
(K. Kataoka, H. Heki, Japan)
61
"Optimization of Nuclear Power Usage: Co-production of electricity and water with the GT-MHR"
(M. Lecomte, France)
63
"Ruta pool-type reactor for heat supply and the possibility for its application area expansion"
(Yu N. Kouznetsov, V.M. Poplovsky, Russian Federation)
71
"The joint Canadian/Russian Floating Nuclear Desalination project"
(D.I. Zelenksi, V.G. Shamanin, V.I. Polunichev, J.R. Humphries, K. Davies, Russian Federation)
13
"A proposal for reusable type small PWR for sea water desalination"
(K. Shimamura, K. Inoue, Y. Ushiyama, A. Minato, Japan)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
16.45 - 18.30 SESSION 11: SAFETY, LICENSING AND REGULATION OF INNOVATIVE REACTORS
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
1
"The IAEA Safety Standards for the Design, Application to Small and Medium Reactors "
(M. Gasparini, IAEA)
29
"Safety & regulatory aspects of the SMART reactor"
(K.W. Seul, W.S. Kim, M.H. Chang, Republic of Korea)
36
"Safety by design: a new approach to accident management in the IRIS reactor"
(M. Carelli, L.E. Conway, G.L. Fiorini, C.V. Lombardi, M.E. Ricotti et al.,
USA)
5
"CAREM-25 Accident analysis"
(M. Gimenez, M. Schlamp, P. Zanocco, A. Vertullo, Argentina)
30
"Evolutionary Safety Aspects of a First Generation CANDU PHWR"
(I. Ahmed, Pakistan)
THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2001
08.30 - 10.30 SESSION 12: DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM REACTORS
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
26
"Requirements for deploying SMRs in developing countries and Korean experience in nuclear power technology self-reliance"
(S.H. Kim, Republic of Korea)
8
"A close look at developing country customer’s essential requirements from China’s nuclear power development"
(Li Yulun, China)
87
"Conditions necessary for the deployment of new nuclear plants - what will it take?"
(K. R. Hedges, R.B. Duffey, W. Hancox, D.F. Torgerson, Canada)
93
"SMR Deployment in Developed Countries"
(Tom Miller, USA)
34
"WASP study for selection of perspective reactor type for the Ukraine"
(L. Litvinsky, O. Purtov, A. Zenyuk, B. Hamilton, V. Koritarov, Ukraine)
53
"Perspective Opportunities for Small and Medium Sized Reactors Utilization in Armenian National Grid"
(A. Gevorgyan, R. Muradyan, V.Sargsyan, Armenia)
10
"Strategy for introduction of Small and Medium Reactors in Indonesia"
(B. Arbie, Indonesia)
66
"Developing infrastructure for nuclear power programme: Indian experience"
(S. Krishnan, India)
 
----- Coffee Break -----
10.45 - 12.00 SESSION 13: PANEL ON SOLUTIONS LEADING TO INCREASED DEPLOYMENT OF SMRs
No. of Paper:
IAEA-SR-218
 
77
"International Co-operation "
(M. Roth, USA)
65
"Effective Regulation – a key element in a nuclear programme"
(J. Waddington, Canada)
70
"Road Map for Nuclear Power in a Developing Country"
(A.K. Anand, India)
94
"Financial aspects of deploying SMRs"
(Chang Sun Kang, Republic of Korea)
 12.00 - 12.30
Closing Remarks

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