Program
Sunday, Sept. 8
Location: Tilden Room, ASUC MLK Jr. Building, UC Berkeley, 2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720.
5pm-8pm | On-Site Registration & Opening Reception.
Monday, Sept. 9
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720.
8.30am – 11am Conference Welcome & Opening Talks (Chair: Will Windes, Idaho National Laboratory)
Max Fratoni (UC Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering Department Chair)
Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley, INGSM-24 Conference Chair)
Anthony Wickham (Nuclear Technology Consultancy, Past INGSM-23 Conference Chair)
Opening Talks Session Chair: Will Windes (Idaho National Laboratory)
Gerhard Strydom (Idaho National Laboratory, USA)
Ke Shen (Hunan University, Changsha China)
Jim Reed (Électricité de France, UK)
Raj Iyengar (USA Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
11am – 11.20am | Break
11.20am – 12.40pm | Technical Session 1: Functional Requirements (Chair: Raluca O. Scarlat, UC Berkeley)
11.20-11.40 TS1.1 Inspection of operating reactors continues to provide surprises. James Reed (EDF Energy)
11.40-12.00 TS1.2 Qualification of ET-10 Graphite for the Hermes Reactor. James McGladdery, Jae Choi, Camilla Stitt, Pierre-Alexandre Juan, Gabriel Meric (Kairos Power).
12.00-12.20 TS1.3 The Requirements of Graphite Material Property Models to Support Extended Operation. Rory Miller, M. Bradford (EDF Energy), R. Gray (Frazer-Nash Consultancy UK)
12.20 -12.40 TS1.4 Oxidation of Graphite and the Impact on Design and Operation. Valentina Angelici, Bri Sheard (MPR Associates, LLC), Samuel Baylis, Timothy Lucas (XEnergy)
12.40pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2pm-3.40pm | Technical Session 2: Irradiation (Chair: Athanasia Tzelepi, Nuclear National Laboratory)
2.00-2.20 TS2.1 Graphite Matrix Pilot Plant and Characterization Laboratory at the National Nuclear Laboratory. Rachel Smith, M. Crelling, J. Dinsdale-Potter, J. McGladdery, S. Wilkinson and A. Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory Sellafield UK)
2.20-2.40 TS2.2 Efforts Supporting Graphite Qualification for the Xe-100 Reactor. Anne A. Campbell, Josina W. Geringer, Melanie M. O’Connell, Adrian M. Schrell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Samuel Baylis, Timothy Lucas (X Energy, LLC.)
2.40-3.00 TS2.3 NRG’s graphite irradiation projects for SIAMC for HTR application. C. Li, Tjark O. van Staveren (Nuclear Research & consultancy Group (NRG), H. Wu, H. Yang (Sinosteel Advanced Materials Corporation (SIAMC)).
3.00-3.20TS2.4 Physics-Informed Irradiated Graphite Material Model. Michael Saitta, Florentius Johannes van Zanten (MPR Associates Inc.), Samuel Baylis (X Energy, LLC.)
3.20-3.40 TS2.5 Comprehensive characterization of radiation damage in high energy accelerator collimator materials. David J. Sprouster (State University of New York Stony Brook), N. Charitonidis, P. Simon, (CERN). M. Whitaker (State University of New York Stony Brook), H. Zhong, S. Ghose, Z. Zhong (Brookhaven National Laboratory), E. Quaranta, J. Guardia-Valenzuela, C. Accettura (State University of New York Stony Brook), R. Assmann (DESY Hamburg), A. Bertarelli, S. Redaelli (State University of New York Stony Brook), Z. Kotsina (Kurchatov Institute Moscow), A.I. Ryazanov (National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Greece), Lance Snead (State University of New York Stony Brook).
3.40pm – 4.20pm | Break and Poster Session 1: Applications, Irradiation, and Oxidation
PS1.1 Science-based development of ASTM standard tests for graphite-based fuel pebbles. Alexandros Spyromilios, Peter Hosemann, Kyriakos Komvopoulos (UC Berkeley), Assel Aitkaliyeva (University of Florida), Anne Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Pete Pappano, Daniel Brown (X-Energy).
PS1.2 Characterization of the neutron irradiation effects of the buffer layer of TRISO nuclear fuel particles via transmission electron microscopy. J. David Arregui-Mena (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Claire Griesbach UNiversit of Wisconsin-Madison), Eddie López-Honorato, Tyler Gerczak (Oak RIdge National Laboratory)
PS1.3 A comparison of oxidation behavior of irradiated and unirradiated graphite: grades NBG-25 and NBG-18. Rebecca E. Smith (Idaho National Laboratory)
4.20pm – 6.00pm | Technical Session 3: Microstructure (Chair: J. David Arregui-Mena, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
4.20-4.40 TS3.1 A Microstructural Comparison between Graphite Irradiated in Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors and Material Test Reactor. A. Tzelepi, J McGladdery, M. Ward (National Nuclear Laboratory Sellafield UK), M. Jordan (National Nuclear Laboratory Stonehouse UK), M. Brown, J. Reed (EDF Energy Barnwood UK)
4.40-5.00 TS3.2 Characterizing the evolution of irradiated nuclear graphite using diffraction. Sean Fayfar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Sprouster (Stony Brook University), Arunkumar Seshadri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Durgesh Rai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Campbell (Oak Ridge National Lab), Jan Ilavsky (Argonne National Laboratory),Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lance Snead, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boris Khaykovich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
5.00-5.20 TS3.3 Pre-Irradiation Characterisation Data of Graphite. Chloe McElvaney (National Nuclear Laboratory Warrington UK), M. Jordan (National Nuclear Laboratory Gloucester UK), J. Dinsdale-Potter, G. Copeland, M.Crelling (National Nuclear Laboratory Cumbria UK), E. Aradi, A. Jones (Henry Royce Institute, The University of Manchester), A. Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory Cumbria UK).
5.20-5.40 TS3.4 Microstructure of Gilsocarbon graphite revealed by a correlative study of optical texture and FIB-TEM. Ke Shen (Hunan University), Alex Theodosiou (University of Manchester), Huiyao Lan (Hunan University)
5.40-6.00 TS3.5 Defects in Nuclear Graphite using Positron Annihilation. Jagoda M. Urban-Klaehn, William E. Windes, Arvin B. Cunningham (Idaho National Laboratory)
Tuesday, Sept. 10
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720
9am – 10.30pm | Panel Discussion 1: Graphite Manufacturers
10.30am – 11.10am | Break and Poster Session 2: Microscopy
PS2.1 Deep Learning Models for Improving Resolution of Nuclear Graphite XCT Images. Ellen Berry, J. David Arregui Mena, Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University)
PS2.2 Understanding Strain Fields in Nuclear Graphite using Digital Image Correlation. William E. Windes, Arvin B. Cunningham (Idaho National Laboratory)
PS2.3 A library of microstructures of nuclear graphite. J. David Arregui-Mena, Jisue Braatz (Oak RIdge National Laboratory) James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University), Phillip D. Edmondson (The University of Manchester), Cristian Contescu, Nidia C. Gallego (Oak RIdge National Laboratory)
11.10am – 12.30pm | Technical Session 4: Characterization and Mechanical Properties (Chair: David Sprouster, Stony Brook University)
11.10-11.30 TS4.1 Precise measurement of true irradiation-induced dimensional changes in graphite crystals. Ke Shen, Jiang Tang, Zhibo Dai, Jiawen He (Hunan Univerity)
11.30-11.50 TS4.2 Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of Neutron Irradiation on the Weibull Modulus of Graphite. A. Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.50-12.10 TS4.3 Intra-grade variations of properties and microstructural features in PCEA nuclear graphite. J. David Arregui-Mena (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Ellen Berry (John Hopkins University), D.V. Griffiths (Colorado School of Mines), Jisue Braatz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Windes (Idaho National Laboratory), James B. Spicer (John Hopkins University), Phillip D. Edmondson, Paul Mummery, Lee Margetts (University of Manchester), Cristian Contescu, Nidia Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
12.10-12.30 TS4.4 Using surface analysis techniques to characterize fission product interactions in graphite. Alex Theodosiou, Abbie Jones (University of Manchester)
12.30pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2pm-3.50pm | Technical Session 5: Mechanical Properties and Modeling (Chair: James Reed, EDF Energy)
2.00-2.20 TS5.1 Microstructure-Property Relationship in Nuclear Graphite. Gongyuan Liu, Melonie Thomas (Penn State University), Khalid Hattar (University of Tennessee), Jing Du (Penn State University), William Windes (Idaho National Laboratory), Aman Haque (Penn State University)
2.20-2.40 TS5.2 Epitaxial growth of carbonaceous mesophase on coke surface. Ke Shen, Xinlei Cao, Shen Lv, Huiyao Lan, Hongbo Liu, Hui Chen (Hunan University)
2.40-3.00 TS5.3 Prediction of Graphite Component Behavior in Life by Finite Element Analysis. Vadim Zolotarevskiy, Graham N. Hall, Abbie N. Jones (University of Manchester, UK)
3.00-3.20 TS5.4 Modelling Graphite Property Evolution. Mark Joyce (Frazer-Nash Consultancy UK).
3.20-3.40 TS5.5 Simulation Tool Development for In-Service Deformation and Fracture in Graphite Components. Benjamin W. Spencer, Lynn B. Munday, Parikshit Bajpai, Gyanender Singh, Veerappan Prithivirajan (Idaho National Laboratory).
3.40pm – 4.20pm | Break and Poster Session 3: Properties
PS3.1 Microstructure-Property Relationship in Nuclear Graphite. Gongyuan Liu, Jing Du (Penn State University) Arvin Cunningham, William Windes (Idaho National Laboratory), K. Hattar (University of Tennessee) Aman Haque (Penn State University)
PS3.2 Sonic Resonance Measurements of Elastic Modulus using Laser-Based Methods. Ellen Berry, J. David Arregui Mena, Lianshan Lin, Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University)
PS3.3 Investigating Wetting Behavior of molten FLiNaK on nuclear grades of Graphite: Insights from Contact Angle Measurements. Jisue Braatz, Wenqi Li, Nidia Gallego
4.20pm – 5.40pm | Technical Session 6: Mechanical and Other Macroscopic Properties (Chair: James Spicer, Johns Hopkins University)
4.20-4.40 TS6.1 Fractional Remanent Strength: The UK Approach to Predicting Graphite Brick Keyway Root Cracking. Graeme Horne, R Gray, M Joyce (Frazer-Nash Consultancy, UK)
4.40-5.00 TS6.2 Minimum volume requirements applied to the ASME full assessment for designing nuclear graphite components. Andrea L. Mack (Idaho National Laboratory), Jarryd F. Potgieter (Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation), Anne A. Campbell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) , William E. Windes. (Idaho National Laboratory)
5.00-5.20 TS6.3 The Effect of Sample Thickness in Standard Disc Compression Test of Nuclear Graphite. Lianshan Lin, Jose D. Arregui-Mena, Jisue Braatz, Cristian I. Contescu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins university), Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
5.20-5.40 TS6.4 Measurement of Coefficient of Thermal Expansion on Micro-sized Graphite Samples. John H. Dinsdale-Potter, Samantha Wilkinson, Athanasia Tzelepi (National Nuclear Laboratory)
6pm – 8pm | Early Career Mentoring Event. 3110 Etcheverry Hall, 2505 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709.
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720
9am – 10.05am | Standards Discussion 1: Graphite Material Requirement and Gaps (Chair: Nidia Gallego, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
9.00-9.20 SD1.1 Impediment to Innovation – Consensus Standards for Nuclear Graphite. Makuteswara Srinivasan (Materials Matter)
9.20-9.40 SD1.2 Graphite Materials Qualification, In-Service Considerations and Licensing. Meg Audrain (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
9.40-10.00 SD1.3 Overview of the UKJ-HTR. Athanasia Tzelepi (Nuclear National Laboratory, UK) , Junya Sumita (Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan)
10.05am – 10.20am | Group Photo & Break. Coffee and Pastries.
10.20am – 11.25am | Standards Discussion 2: Design, Operation Requirements and Gaps (Chair: Athanasia Tzelepi, Nuclear National Laboratory)
10.20-10.40 SD2.1 Current and Future Technological Gaps for Nuclear Graphite Components. William Windes, Michael E. Davenport, Rebecca E. Smith, Andrea L. Mack (Idaho National Laboratory)
10.40-11.00 SD2.2 A Fresh View on Temperature Effects on Local Density and Mechanical Strength Profiles in Subsurface of Thermally Oxidized Graphite. Cristian I. Contescu (Oak Ridge National laboratory), James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University), David J. Arregui-Mena, Lianshan Lin, Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.00-11.20 SD2.3 Current Technical Gaps and Challenges for Nuclear Graphite in Molten Salt Reactors. Nidia C. Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.25am – 11.40am | Break
11.40am – 12.40pm | Technical Session 7: Oxidation (Chair: Alex Theodosiou, University of Manchester)
11.40-12.00 TS7.1 Developing Sophisticated Methods for Graphite Uncertainty Quantification. John Taylor, N. Headings, M. Choudhury, R. Raikes, M. Winebrenner (Frazer Nash Consultancy), M. Bradford (EDF Nuclear Operations)
12.00-12.20 TS7.2 Impact of Oxidation on Gas Diffusion and Microstructure in NBG-18 and IG-110 Nuclear Graphite. Mayura S. Silva, Swapnil K. Morankar, Chuting T. Tsai, Arvin B. Cunningham, Mario D. Matos, William E. Windes (Idaho National Laboratory)
12.20-12.40 TS7.3 The effects of oxidation on the behaviour and thermo-physical properties of selected nuclear graphite grades for high temperature gas-cooled reactor. Mouna Saoudi, Dan Cluff, Huali Wu, Jozef Mouris, Chad Boyer, Jeffrey Battersby (Canadian Nuclear Laboratory)
12.40pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2pm-3.40pm | Technical Session 8: Oxidation (Chair: Mouna Saoudi, Canadian National Laboratory)
2.00-2.20 TS8.1 Characterization of Nuclear Graphite Oxidation Behavior for Next Generation High-Temperature Reactors. Saleh Zaila, Alex Theodosiou, Abbie Jones (University of Manchester, UK)
2.20-2.40 TS8.2 Oxidation behavior of ETU-10 nuclear graphite under air oxidation. J. David Arregui-Mena, J. Matthew Kurley, Yutai Katoh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Lance Snead (Stony Brook University)
2.40-3.00 TS8.3 Lathing Study to Assess Oxidation Penetration for Seven Grades of Graphite: 2114, ET-10, ETU-10, IG-110, IG-430, NBG-18 and PCEA. Rebecca E. Smith, Mary Kaye Ames, Arvin B. Cunningham, Austin C. Matthews (Idaho National Laboratory)
3.00-3.20 TS8.4 Microstructural characterization of nuclear graphite under uniform and acute oxidation via conventional XCT and synchrotron XCT. J. David Arregui Mena (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), William Bodel, Xun Zhang, Cristian Contescu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), James B. Spicer (Johns Hopkins University), Philip D. Edmondson, Paul M. Mummery (University of Manchester), Nidia Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3.20-3.40 TS8.5 Doping Graphite with Boron for Oxidation Resistance. Timothy D. Bragg, Rebecca E. Smith, William E. Windes, Michael C. Barkdull (Idaho National Laboratory)
3.40pm – 4.40pm | Break and Poster Session 4: Decommissioning and Waste
PS4.1 Repurposing of nuclear irradiated graphite waste and comparative thermophysical properties of various fine-grained nuclear graphite. Praveen Negi, Nirmala Rani, Akhil Kolanti, David J. Sprouster, Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
PS4.2 Li battery graphite anode waste and recycling. Sukanya Sukanya (TU Clausthal).
PS4.3 Electrochemical Thermal Desorption Spectrometry development for detection of hydrogen degassing from graphite in molten 2LiF-BeF2 (FLiBe). Timothy R. Pickarski (UC Berkeley), Colton Bruni (UC Berkeley, and Louisiana State University), L. Vergari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) , Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley).
PS4.4 In-FLiBe Decontamination of Irradiated Graphite. Sarah Heagy (UC Berkeley), L. Vergari (University of Illinois-Urban-Champaign), Riccardo Chebac , Christopher Lamb, Timothy Pickarski, Zachary Falkowski, Jimmy Xu, Kai Vetter, Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley).
4.40pm-5.40pm | Technical Session 9: Molten Salt (Chair: L Vergari, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4.40-5.00 TS9.1 Exploring intrusion behavior of molten FLiNaK on nuclear grade graphite. Jisue Braatz, Nidia Gallego (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
5.00-5.20 TS9.2 Investigating Molten Salt Infiltration in Nuclear Graphite: A Computational Study. Veerappan Prithivirajan, B. Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory)
6pm – 8pm | Conference Banquet at the Berkeley Faculty Club [map].
Student Poster Award: Ellen Berry (Johns Hopkins University)
Thursday, Sept. 12
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720
9am – 10.30am | Panel Discussion 2: Reactor Developers
10.30am – 10.45am | Break
10.45am – 11.45pm | Technical Session 10: Molten Salt (Chair: Nidia Gallego, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
10.45-11.05 TS10.1 Graphite Irradiations and Lessons Learned in FLIBE Salt Using the MIT Reactor. Charles W. Forsberg, D. Carpenter and L. Hu (Massachusetts Institue of Technology)
11.05-11.25 TS10.2 Overview of NRG graphite activities. Mathilde A.L. Laot, T.O. van Staveren (Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group)
11.25-11.45 TS10.3 Wear and friction characterization of graphite in inert gas and molten salt environments at 650°C. Tomas Grejtak, Nidia C. Gallego, Jim R. Keiser, Jun Qu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
11.50-12.10 TS10.4 Surface interactions between graphite and molten salt. Raluca O. Scarlat (UC Berkeley), L. Vergari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sarah Heagy, Jimmy Xu, Zackary Falkowski (UC Berkeley)
12.10-12.30 TS10.5 Graphite Tritium Release Fraction Methods for Fluoride-Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Reactor Licensing. Kieran Dolan (Kairos Power, Ltd.)
12.40-1.00 TS10.6 Effects of Tritium-Graphite Interactions on Safety Transients in Graphite-Moderated Nuclear Reactors. L. Vergari, G.S. Rakib (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
1.00pm – 2pm | Lunch Break. (Meal not included in conference program.)
2.00pm – 3.40pm | Technical Session 11: Decommissioning (Chair: Anthony J. Wickham, Nuclear Technology Consultancy)
2.00-2.20 TS11.1 The Irradiated Graphite Management Programme (IGraMP) – Developing Innovative and Sustainable Options for the Decommissioning of UK Reactors. Richard Harris (Nuclear Restoration Services)
2.20-2.40 TS11.2 i-graphite management for the decommissioning of Latina NPP in Italy. Gianluigi Migliore (Sogin, Italy)
2.40-3.00 TS11.3 Waste Characterization and Decommissioning Cost Quantification for Gen IV Graphite Reflector Components. Liam S. Hines, Haruko Wainwright, Koroush Shirvan (Massachusetts Institue of Technology)
3.00-3.20 TS11.4 Advancements in Vacuum-Based Graphite Retrieval System for Nuclear Decommissioning. Riccardo Chebac, Fabio Vanoni, Jonathan Giovannacci (GraphiCore), Alessandro Antonio Porta, Fabrizio Campi, Marco Enrico Ricotti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
3.20-3.40 TS9.3 Treatment of Molten fluoride salt-exposed graphite: Cleaning made simple. Yina Huang, S.D. Fayfar, D. J. Sprouster, G. Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), L.L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
3.40-4.00 TS11.5 Approaches for Decontamination of Irradiated Graphite. Raluca O. Scarlat, Axel Michelet, Timothy Pickarski, Haley Williams (UC Berkeley), L. Vergari (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sarah Heagy, Qiye Hu, Riccardo Chebac (UC Berkeley)
4.00pm – 4.10pm | Break
4.10pm-5.50pm | Technical Session 12: Irradiated Graphite Waste (Chair: Gianluigi Migliore, Sogin)
4.10-4.30 TS12.1 Roadmap of Nuclear Graphite Management Options. Charles W. Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4.30-4.50 TS12.2 Ways Forward in the Management of Irradiated Nuclear Graphite Wastes. Anthony J. Wickham, David Bradbury (Nuclear Technology Consultancy, UK)
4.50-5.10 TS12.3 Irradiated Graphite Disposal Regulations: Path Forward for Advanced Reactor Graphite. Haruko M. Wainwright, Liam Hines, Koroush Shirvan, Charles W Forsberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lance Snead (Stony Brook University), Per F. Peterson (UC Berkeley)
5.10-5.30 TS12.4 Comprehensive study of Nitrogen, Chlorine, and Ash content in various fine-grained nuclear graphite. Nirmala Rani, Praveen Negi, Akhil Kolanti, David J. Sprouster (Stony Brook University), Koroush Shirvan, Liam Hines (MIT), Lance L. Snead (Stony Brook University)
5.40-5.50 TS12.5 Evaluation of thermo-physical properties of Bentonite and Graphite composite for nuclear waste repositories. Akhil Kolanti, Nirmala Rani, Praveen Negi, David Sprouster, Lance Snead (Stony Brook University)
5.50pm – 6.10pm | Best Student Talk Award. INGSM 2024 Closing Remarks. INGSM 2025 Announcement.
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Friday, Sept. 13
Side meeting: 8am – 10am | Irradiated Graphite Waste Integrated Research Project Meeting | DOE IRP-22-27674. | Location: 6101 Etcheverry Hall. | Meeting is open to all, to attend as observers. Early career scientists are encouraged to attend.
9am – 12.30pm | UC Berkeley Laboratory Tour. The UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department is Located in Etcheverry Hall, 2505 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
Entire tour meeting point: 9am, in front of Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall CITRIS, UC Berkeley, 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720.
- 9am-9.30am. UC Berkeley Brief Campus Walking Tour. Meeting point: 9am in front of Banatao Auditorium.
- 9.30am-12pm. UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Tours. Meeting point: 9:30am in 3110 Etcheverry Hall.
- 12pm-12.30pm. UC Berkeley Campanile visit. Meeting point: 12:00pm at the Campanile.
Please wear closed-toed shoes in order to be able to access the laboratories. These tours are designed as walking tours. When you pick up your badge, please discuss mobility constraints or accommodations that would help make your tour a better experience.
2pm – 5.30pm | Kairos Power Tour. Kairos Power is Located at 707 W Tower Ave Suite A, Alameda, CA 94501.
Tour meeting point: 2pm at 707 W Tower Ave, Alameda, CA.
Transportation:
- Scenic route: Bart and Ferry.
- Take Bart from Downtown Berkeley to Embarcadero in San Francisco. The ride takes 23 minutes. Use your Clipper Card to pay your ticket.
- Take the Seaplane Ferry from the Ferry Building in San Francisco to Alameda Seaplane Ferry Terminal. See schedule here. The Ferry Building has many options for food and finding local gifts. On the ferry ride, you will have a spectacular view of San Francisco, the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge, and the Bay, including Alcatraz Island and Treasure Island. 1pm is the last ferry you can catch you arrive on time; arrive early at the Ferry Building, to find your terminal and board your ferry on time. The ride takes 20 minutes. Use your Clipper Card to pay your ticket.
- Walk from the Ferry Terminal to Kairos Power, 707 W Tower Ave. If you arrive with the 1.20pm Ferry, you will have time for a quick bite to eat at the restaurant and food trucks immediately adjacent to the Kairos Power building.
- Quickest public transportation route:
- Take Bart from Downtown Berkeley to 12th St Oakland. The ride takes 11 minutes.
- Take Uber or Lyft to Kairos Power (3 miles, under 10 minutes, typically under $20).
- Quickest route: Uber or Lyft (10 miles, about 30 minutes)
- Optional: If you wish to share a ride with other conference participants, meet at 1pm in front of Sutardja Dai Hall located 2594 Hearst Ave, Berkeley (conference venue). An Uber ride can fit up to 4 passengers (typically $35); an Uber XL ride can fit up to 6 passengers (typically $50).
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