Call for Papers: Conference on Resilience of Nuclear Installations

This conference serves as a forum for the exchange of scientific and technical information on the basis of improved techniques and modelling approaches from the siting phases to design, operation and safety assessment. 

The conference will provide a platform for enhanced networking opportunities among safety analysts, regulators, researchers and others engaged in the safety of nuclear installations. Exchanges will involve sharing experiences and discussing current and novel methods to evaluate the resilience and robustness of nuclear installations and radioactive waste disposal facilities against external events, particularly in the context of climate change. The discussions will also cover existing facilities, as well as those under design, licensing and construction.  

“The resilience of nuclear installations can be viewed as the ability of the installation to quickly return to its original safety state after the occurrence of a potentially damaging event such as an earthquake, hurricane, or aircraft crash,” said Paolo Contri, Head of the IAEA Section of External Events Safety.  

He added: “Resilience is coupled with the concept of robustness against external hazards, which encompasses the development of engineering solutions in siting, design and operation phases, that can support the response to extreme scenarios, but also to emerging challenges, or unknown threats, as well as planning, response and recovery strategies.” 

Contributors interested in submitting papers for the conference can find the topics of interest here, which includes areas such as the identification and analysis of external hazards, the consideration of uncertainties in hazard analyses and events resulting from combined hazards; and the impact of external hazards on nuclear installations and radioactive waste disposal facilities as well as the safety features of innovative new reactor designs and their contribution to resilience. 

The guidelines and details for the submission of synopses are available here. Those wishing to contribute should submit an abstract through the IAEA web-based submission system (IAEA-INDICO). The synopses can be submitted through the system until 31 May 2025.   

Authors will be informed by 30 June 2025 as to whether their submission has been accepted, either orally or as a poster, for presentation at the conference.    

Anyone wishing to participate in the event must be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be a member of an organization that has been invited to attend. No registration fee is charged to participants.  

More information on registration and participation is available here.