Main Topics

◇ Advanced and innovative reactor concept designs and associated objectives and driving forces
◇ Recycle strategies for fast reactors and associated technologies
◇ Proliferation resistance and physical protection
◇ Economics and performance (including reliability, availability, service life, public acceptance)
◇ Transition scenarios: the path to fast reactor deployment
◇ Fast reactor safety:
・ Design and assessment approaches, issues and requirements
・ Special emphasis on severe accidents
・ Licensing issues
◇ Advanced fuels for fast reactors:
・ Fuel concepts, targets, high burnup fuels
・ Performance
・ Manufacturing
・ Irradiation experiments
◇ Structural materials: new challenges, manufacturing and performance
◇ Coolant technologies and instrumentation
◇ In-service inspection and repair
◇ Advanced and innovative fast reactor component and system design, and technologies (primary system, balance of plant, handling systems, simplification in plant layout, etc.)
◇ Past 20 years' experience with fast reactors, lessons learned and perspectives: design, construction, commissioning, operation, decommissioning
◇ Fundamental issues, new experiments and requirements (basic data, reactor physics, thermal hydraulics, etc.)
◇ Advanced simulation, modeling and verification/validation/qualification in various areas
◇ Availability and capability of experimental facilities
◇ Human resources, education, infrastructures and knowledge management

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