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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