Conference Agenda

1:45pm - 2:15pm

Reuse, recycling and conditioning of plutonium and americium. An overview on the recent activities at the JRC

Karin Popa, Jean-François Vigier, Daniel Freis, Rudy J.M. Konings

European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany

2:15pm - 2:30pm

Preparation of Am-containing transmutation targets

Gamze Colak^1,2, Gregory Leinders¹, Rémi Delville¹, Marc Verwerft¹, Jef Vleugels²

¹Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Institute for Nuclear Materials Science, Boeretang 200, B-2400 Mol, Belgium.; ²KU Leuven, Department of Materials Engineering, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium.

2:30pm - 2:45pm

Study of the structural evolution induced by air oxidation of UO2 to U3O7

Jone Miren Elorrieta Baigorri¹, Abel Milena Pérez¹, Jean François Vigier², Laura Jiménez Bonales¹, María Nieves Rodríguez Villagra¹, Valentín García Baonza³, Joaquín Cobos Sabate⁴, Hitos Galán Montano¹

¹Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Av. Complutense 40, 28040, Madrid, Spain; ²European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), 76125, Karlsruhe, Germany; ³MALTA-Consolider Team, Dep. Química Física, Fac. Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense and Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain; ⁴Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Av. Américo Vespucio 26, 41092 Seville, Spain

2:45pm - 3:15pm

Probing the Defect Structure in Single-Phase UO2+x Systems

Maik K. Lang¹, William F. Cureton², Eric C. O’Quinn¹, Gianguido Baldinozzi³, Joerg Neuefeind², Matthew G. Tucker², Andrew T. Nelson²

¹University of Tennessee, United States of America; ²Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America; ³Centrale Supélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France