Co-sponsored meetings and conferences

This ISOE symposium is organised to provide a regional forum to promote information exchange of ideas and management approaches to maintaining occupational radiation exposures "as low as reasonably achievable" (ALARA). It is designed to meet the needs of nuclear utility and regulatory authority professionals with responsibilities in the areas of occupational radiation exposure control and health physics. The objective is for participants to exchange occupational dose reduction practices and lessons learnt to improve occupational radiation protection in nuclear power facilities worldwide. The conference will also provide a forum for information exchange between vendors and other members of the industry.

PIME, the Conference on Public Information Materials Exchange, is a unique international conference that has established itself as the annual meeting place for professional nuclear communicators from all around the world and is a “must” for all nuclear public information specialists who want to enhance and share their know-how.
The 2010 conference will address how to be prepared to face a communication crisis and how to reach the general public when communicating on nuclear issues.
The PIME conference addresses internal as well as external communication, and covers all civil uses of nuclear technologies.

This meeting is one in a series of nuclear data conferences organised every three years. The conference provides an opportunity for the data community to get together and to discuss the needs and the use of nuclear data in traditional and advanced nuclear application areas.

The objective of the conference is to provide participants with practical tools that they can use at organisational, national, and international levels to develop and maintain the human resources needed to support the safe and sustainable introduction and expansion of nuclear power programmes; such as:

• Better understanding of common problems and issues regarding human resource development;
• Practical guidance that can be used at the organizational and national levels to develop a sustainable human resource policy;
• Identification of international cooperation approaches that could be initiated or strengthened to address human resource issues at regional and international levels.

ENC 2010 will be a unique networking event for scientists, nuclear industry representatives and policy makers, who can consider and discuss ideas and innovations that will drive the technological developments of the future.
The European Nuclear Conference is known for the high standard of papers presented. Key themes of ENC 2010 will include state-of-the-art research and development in areas such as:

• New reactor and energy technologies;
• The nuclear fuel cycle;
• Cutting-edge medical applications;
• Education and training;
• Socio-economic, political and ethical considerations.

The conference will also be a showcase of products and services from some of the world’s leading nuclear industry and research organisations.

Appropriate management of an increasing amount of spent fuel is a key issue for the continued and future use of nuclear energy. Spent fuel storage wet or dry is currently the norm for spent fuel management worldwide. Some countries successfully reprocess and reuse their spent fuel but most keep it stored long term. Spent fuel from nuclear power reactors requires safe, secure, environmentally sound and efficient management that will ensure that future options for spent fuel management are kept open. The IAEA pays careful attention to the collection, analysis and exchange of information on spent fuel management in order to contribute to the safe storage of spent fuel from a technological as well as from a safety point of view. To this end, meetings on spent fuel storage have taken place normally every four years since 1987. The most recent international conference on this topic was held in Vienna in June 2006.

The objectives of the International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors are to exchange information and experience on a variety of aspects of safety management for SNF, including: technology advances in spent fuel storage, operating experience in storage; global outlook for spent fuel management including reprocessing and disposal; the safety framework of spent fuel management; issues related to spent fuel ageing, integrity and long term data management; public perceptions of spent fuel management activities.s.