The European Nuclear Conference (ENC) is the largest international conference of its kind on the European event calendar. This European Nuclear Society (ENS) event has a multidisciplinary approach, looking at nuclear applications in energy production and medical technologies.

ENS and the ENC 2010 Programme Committee are now calling for abstracts in the following areas:

Reactor technologies

• Generation III reactors
• Generation IV reactors
• Small reactors
• Research reactors
• Innovative reactor concepts, including the Thorium cycle
• Innovations in the supply chain or construction engineering

The fuel cycle

• Front End
• In core management and fuel behaviour
• Back End
• Spent fuel management
• Uranium and Plutonium recycling, including Minor Actinides transmutation
• Transports of fuel materials
• Nuclear materials safeguards
• Greenhouse gas emissions from the fuel cycle

Plant operations

• Maintenance and operation
• Safety management (operation, maintenance, aging …)
• Human and organizational factors
• Materials technology and testing
• Plant Life Extension
• Instrumentation
• Decommissioning
• Physical protection

Life science applications

• Protection of man and the environment
• Radiobiology/radioecology
• Instrumentation
• Diagnostic and therapeutic applications
• Isotopes supply
• Radiation protection in medical applications
  • European harmonisation issues
  • Therapy with alpha emitters
  • ...
• Nuclear Medicine training in Europe, present and future trends

Education, training and knowledge management

• Initiatives in education, training and knowledge management
• Education & training facilities
• Challenges and opportunities for nuclear professionals
• Recruitment and labour market issues

Nuclear and civil society

• Countries’ perspectives on nuclear energy policy
• Public information, including communicating on nuclear incidents
• Public perception
• Stakeholder involvement
• Economical impact
• Nuclear and the societal debates, including at international fora

• Regulation and Harmonisation

Upload your abstracts before 13 November 2009
 
on www.enc2010.org or

contact enc2010@euronuclear.org for further information

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submission: 13 November 2009

Notification of authors: 29 January 2010

Deadline for full paper submission: 30 April 2010

Deadline for submission of PowerPoint presentations: 21 May 2010

Conference: 30 May – 2 June 2010

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings (Transactions) that will be available on CD-ROM (after the conference) and posted on our website: www.euronuclear.org with reference ISBN 978-92-95064-09-6.

Abstract review
The abstracts received will be peer reviewed under the auspices of the ENC 2010 Programme Committee.

ENC 2010 Programme Committee Chair:
Prof . F. Deconinck, SCK-CEN, ENS Past President

ENC 2010 Programme Committee Co-Chair:
J.E. Gutiérrez, Westinghouse Spain, SNE President:

Programme Committee Core Members:
Marcel Maris, BEL V, Belgium
Nikola Cavlina, FER / University of Zagreb, Croatia
Bernard Bonin, CEA, France
David R. Bonser, Westinghouse, United Kingdom
Joachim Knebel, Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Juliette Van der Laan-Jenniskens, NRG, The Netherlands
Martin Luthander, Vattenfall / SwedPower AB, Sweden
Phil Beeley, Academy of the UK / HMS Sultan, United Kingdom
Frans Corstens, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Emilio Minguez, Politecnica de Madrid,Spain
Miguel Millán, Jóvenes Nucleares, JJNN, Spain
Bernard Jolly, SFEN, France

Conference Secretariat:

European Nuclear Society

65 Rue Belliard

1040 Brussels , Belgium

Tel. +32 2 505 30 54
Fax +32 2 505 39 02

enc2010@euronuclear.org