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Symposium

MIT-Tokyo Tech Symposium on Innovative Nuclear Energy System

2-4 November 2005

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Agenda

Wednesday, November 2
8:30–9:00 am
   Registration
9:00 –9:20 am
  Welcome and Opening Remarks (Buongiorno, Kazimi and Sekimoto)
9:30–Noon
   Technical Session 1: Supercritical CO2 Power Conversion Cycle
Co-Chairs: Buongiorno (MIT), Y. Kato (TokyoTech)
 
  
  • Supercritical Cycle for Gen-IV Reactors -- Overview of MIT work (Hejzlar, MIT)
  • Overview of Supercritical CO2 Cycle Studies at TokyoTech (Kato, TokyoTech)
  • Printed Circuit Heat Exchangers for Supercritical CO2 cycles (Dewson, Heatric)
  • Design of Turbo-machinery for Supercritical CO2 Closed Brayton Cycle Power Plant (Nichols and Fuller, Barber & Nichols)
Noon-1:30 pm
   Lunch Break
1:30-4:45 pm
      Technical Session 2: Innovative Fast Reactor Technologies
Co-Chairs: Todreas (MIT), Igashira (TokyoTech)
 
  
  • Long-Life Core Design (Sekimoto, TokyoTech)
  • Research Plan for High Efficiency Steam Lift Pump Type LFR and Study on Removal of Pb-Bi Droplets in Steam Flow (Takahashi, TokyoTech)
  • Alloy Development for Pb-Cooled Reactor Service (Ballinger, MIT)

    Break (15 minute)

  • Recent Results of Polonium Research for Pb-Bi Cooled Reactors (Obara, TokyoTech)
  • Gas Fast Reactor Design (Driscoll, MIT)
6:30-8:30 pm
   Banquet at the MIT Faculty Club
Guest speaker: Dr. James Lake, Associate Laboratory Director, Idaho National Laboratory
"Idaho National Laboratory's Leadership Role in Nuclear Energy"
Thursday, November 3
9:00-9:45 am
   MIT Campus Tour (Lobby of Building 7)
9:45-10:30 am
   Alcator Tour (NW17-218)
10:30-11:30 am
   MIT Reactor Tour (TokyoTech visitors only, NW12)
11:30-1:00 pm
   Lunch Break
1:00-3:00 pm
   Technical Session 3: Poster Presentations, Stata Center, Bldg 32-123
3:30-5:00 pm
   Rose Lecture by 2005 Nobel Laureate Dr. M. ElBaradei, IAEA Director General:
“Nuclear Technology in a Changing World: Have We Reached a Turning Point?”
Stata Center, Bldg 32-123
5:00-6:00 pm
   Rose Lecture Reception, Stata Center, Bldg 32-123
Friday, November 4
8:30–Noon
   Technical Session 4: Nuclear Hydrogen
Co-Chairs: Tester (MIT), Ikeda (TokyoTech)
 
  
  • Fueling the Hydrogen Economy: Status of the US Program for Hydrogen Production using Nuclear Energy (Schultz, GA)
  • Innovative non-equilibrium chemical reaction processes for nuclear hydrogen production (Y. Kato, TokyoTech)
  • Hydrogen Production System with High Temperature Electrolysis on Nuclear Power Plant (Matsunaga, Toshiba)

    Break (15 minute)

  • Intermediate Heat Exchanger (IHX) Designs (Kessili, Brayton Energy)
  • Design and Manufacturing Approach of Ceramic Heat Exchanger for Thermo-Chemical Iodine-Sulfur Process (Minatsuki, MHI)
  • A Novel Approach to Heat Exchanger Design: The Combination of Structural and Catalytic Functions via the Addition of Pt (Ballinger, MIT)
Noon-1:30 pm 
   Lunch Break
1:30-4:00 pm
   Technical Session 5: Actinide Management and Safety Technologies
Co-Chairs: Pilat (MIT), Obara (TokyoTech)
 
  
  • Approaches to Transmutation Fuel Cycles (Kazimi, MIT)
  • Nuclide Separation Methods at Tokyo Tech (Ikeda and Suzuki, TokyoTech)

Break (15 minute)

  • Minor Actinide Cross-section Measurements (Igashira, TokyoTech)
  • Elements of proliferation resistance (Golay, MIT)
4:00-4:15 pm
   Closing Remarks (Kazimi and Sekimoto)
Summary (pdf)

Photos

Tokyo Tech Newsletter

Contents

  1. Summary of the Symposium
  2. Oral Presentation
  3. Poster Session
  4. Student Workshop and Special Educational Session