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Current
Newsletter
last updated 17 June 2008
email submissions to: Publicity
Committee
In this newsletter:
If you have items to contribute to the
newsletter, please contact the MSTD
Publicity Committee Chair.
Conference
Announcements
Plutonium Futures The Science 2008
Dijon, France July
7-11, 2008
7th
International Workshop
Materials Models and Simulations for Nuclear Fuels
29-30 September 2008 - Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Water Reactor Fuel Performance
Meeting
October 19-22, 2008 - Seoul, Korea
ANS Winter Meeting
November 9 13, 2008 Reno, NV
2009
ANS Student Conference
April 1 5, 2009 University of Florida
ANS Annual Meeting
June 14 18, 2009 Atlanta, GA
14th
International Conference on Environmental Degradation in Nuclear Power
Systems
August 23-27, 2009 - Virginia Beach, VA
Topical Meetings Sponsored by MSTD
MSTD Regularly Sponsors or Co-sponsors
several topical meetings.
- The International Conference
on Environmental Degradation is held every other year and has rotated
between three societies with ANS last sponsoring the 11th
meeting in 2003. ANS will next
sponsor the meeting in 2009
- The International LWR Fuel
Performance Meeting is held each year and presently rotates between
the U.S. (sponsored
by ANS), Europe (branded as the Top Fuel Meeting), and Asia. The
U.S./ANS primary sponsorship rotates between MSTD and Fuel Cycle and
Waste Management Division of ANS.
MSTD will next sponsor the meeting in 2010. Some recent meetings include Orlando, FL (2004), Kyoto, Japan
(2005), Salamanca, Spain (2006), and San Franciso, CA (2007).
- The Nuclear Fuels and
Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors (NFSM)
was first held in 2006 and is next scheduled for 2008. The topical meeting is jointly
sponsored by MSTD and Fusion Energy Division.
- Plutonium Futures to be held
next in Dijon, France July 7 11, 2008. (http://www.pu2008.org/). Earlier meetings have included:
Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California in 2006, Albuquerque,
New Mexico in 2003, Santa
Fe, New Mexico in 2000, Santa Fe, New
Mexico in 1997.
Report on 13th
Conference on Environmental Degradation of Materials
in Nuclear Power Systems
ANS to Host in 2009
The 13th International Conference on Environmental
Degradation of Materials in Nuclear Power Systems took place in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, August 1923. ANS was a co-sponsor of the Canadian
Nuclear Society sponsored meeting with MSTD Executive Committee members
Todd Allen (University of Wisconsin) and Jeremy Busby (Oak Ridge National
Laboratory) coordinating the technical program for the meeting.
Some overall numbers for the event:
- 225
registrants
- 144
technical papers
- 66%
of attendees from outside the United States (up from 54%
in 2005)
The conference opened with a plenary session that
provided two different views of the challenges to be faced in materials for
nuclear energy. Paul Spekkens of Ontario Power Generation spoke from a
utility company's perspective, while Peter Ford of GE Global Research
Center offered a researcher's perspective.
In terms of looking at hot-topic issues, the conference
included a special session called Alloy 800 Steam Generator Tubing. This session
was of particular interest to attendees from the host country Canada, as well as those attendees from Germany,
the only two countries where the alloy is used in steam generators.
Looking forward to the next installment in this series,
Todd Allen will serve as the general chair of the 2009 conference and
Jeremy Busby will be the technical program chair. The American Nuclear
Society will host the conference in 2009.
Executive
Committee Meeting at the 2007 Annual Meeting Boston, MA
The
meeting was held at its usually scheduled time slot of Monday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 PM.
Pictured above left to right are: Sukesh Aghara, Kenan Unlu, Steve
Zinkle, Jim Cole, Rory Kennedy, Todd Allen,
Ken Geelhood, Heather MacLean,
Robert Hanrahan, Maria Okuniewski, Jeremy Busby, Jim
Stubbins, Travis W. Knight. Photo taken by Keith J. Leonard.
2006 MSTD Awards
Luncheon Winter Meeting in Albuquerque,
NM
An
Awards Luncheon was held on Wednesday, November 15th 2006. Award recipients can be found at: http://mstd.ans.org/awards.html.
The
speaker for the luncheon was Dr. Kemal Pasamehmetoglu of Idaho National
Laboratory. His presentation was
titled, GNEP
Transmutation Fuel Development Overview.
The
next Awards Luncheon will be held at the 2008 Winter Meeting in Reno, NV
conferring awards for the years 2006 and 2007. Awards will be presented in the different
categories detailed on this website at: http://mstd.ans.org/awards.html
with past recipients also listed.
Please
send your nominations to Jim Stubbins
at: jstubbin@uiuc.edu.
2006 Topical Meeting: Nuclear Fuels and Structural
Materials
for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors
The
first Topical Meeting titled Nuclear
Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors was held in June
2006, embedded in the ANS Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada. This meeting, co-sponsored by MSTD and
FED, was chaired by Lance Snead, Dave Petti, Madeline Feltus, and Todd Allen.
The meeting consisted of 107 total presentations on fuels and
materials for advanced systems. The
papers from the meeting will be published in a special issue of the Journal
of Nuclear Materials, to be issued in 2007.
The next NFSM will take place in conjunction with the 2008 Annual
Meeting in Anaheim.
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