• Overview
• Agenda

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

• GNEP and the worldwide expansion of nuclear power
• UK spent fuel: asset or liability?
• The Closed Fuel Cycle - Current and future reprocessing Developments in India
• The changing picture of fuel supply and demand
• Spent fuel in France
• The view from Australia and its case for enrichment
• Fuel cycle developments in Russia
• Fuelling tomorrow and assurance of supply for all fuel cycle sectors
• Fuel cycle safeguards in the EU
• Developments in enrichment technology
• Taking advantage of reactor fleet diversity
• Loviisa NPP Operator Case Study
• The German experience
• Can MOX deliver?
• Thorium fuel
• A critical look at fuel cycle cost

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dennis Spurgeon

Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

CONFERENCE SCOPE

Existing and Emerging Nuclear Fuel Cycles are faced with great challenge and opportunity through the expansion of nuclear power programmes, whether for electricity generation or other applications.

The challenges include the two main drivers of security and supply. Proliferation concerns place issue on expansion of production and subsequent reprocessing or storage arrangements. Demand places issue on fuel manufacturing capacity and competitive plant operation.

From the challenges emerge opportunities. Greater efficiency and innovation can optimise the cost and performance of the entire cycle. As a customer approaching a potentially wider choice of supply, the utilities' ability to influence has never been greater. GNEP and other initiatives have the potential to assuage public and political thinking...

CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES

This global conference will provide a comprehensive picture of the existing and emerging fuel cycle scene. It will enable influence through participative discussion into future directions and initiatives.

International 'experience' sessions, from an authoritative speaker line-up, will enable the latest developments and strategies to be compared, so as to allow lessons learned and techniques to be contrasted with one another in economics, policy, supply, enrichment, manufacture, plant operation, reprocessing, recycle, storage...

A novel and timely mediated Roundtable Discussion Forum will enable informal and topical debate to complement the wide range of speaker presentations. Delegates and speakers will be able to interact and explore a number of topics at each table in an environment that facilitates open twoway discussion and constructive debate.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This event will be of particular interest to representatives from the nuclear utilities (Fuel and Business Managers), fuel supply (production, conversion, enrichment and fabrication) and transport (strategy and logistics). It will also appeal to those involved in the provision of fuel cycle equipment supply and services, as well as regulators and policy representatives from local and national authorities, analysts, lawyers and academics.

"... a long-term vision of the global nuclear fuel cycle cannot be achieved without broader cooperation and partnerships involving nations that currently utilize, or are planning to develop, civilian nuclear energy."
Joint Statement, China, France, Japan, Russia and the USA, May 2007