Official Description of the Event from Hosting Organiser Website:

The NEA is organising the 16th Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation (16IEMPT) on 24-27 October 2023. The meeting will be held at the NEA offices in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The event is supported by the EU-funded PATRICIA project, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), MYRRHA and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).

Advanced nuclear fuel cycles to improve the safety, sustainability and economics of nuclear energy are under development internationally. Partitioning and Transmutation (P&T) is one of the candidate technologies to help reduce the heat, radiotoxicity and volume of radioactive waste. Recent developments indicate the need for embedding P&T strategies into advanced fuel cycles considering waste management and economic issues.

To give experts a forum to present and discuss state-of-the-art developments in the field of advanced nuclear fuel cycles and P&T, the NEA has been organising biennial information exchange meetings on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation since 1990.

Scope
The meeting will address scientific, as well as strategy/policy developments in the field of advanced fuel cycles and P&T. Different sessions will be organised to cover the following topics:

International and national programmes: overview of national programmes in the field of advanced fuel cycles and P&T and activities carried out in international organisations
Fuel cycle strategies and scenarios: scenario analyses, including economic aspects, for advanced fuel cycles and P&T
Advanced reactors and accelerator-driven systems: coolants, physics, infrastructures, design and technology, flexibility, performance and safety
R&D infrastructures for advanced fuel cycles and P&T
Modelling and data: codes and data for advanced reactors, verification, in support of modelling, multiphysics...
Advanced fuels for Pu management and MA transmutation: advanced fuel fabrication, handling and transportation, irradiation, characterisation, performance, PIE
Advanced nuclear fuel recycling: aqueous and pyro separation processes for advanced reprocessing, minor actinide and fission product partitioning, including MSR systems
Waste management for future nuclear fuel cycles: advanced waste forms, waste management strategies (including secondary wastes)
Innovative utilisations of actinides and fission products: other uses of products or waste materials from advanced fuel cycles, isotopes for space power or medical use.