Final Programme - Events

Coffee/Tea Breaks in the Examination Schools
Complimentary coffee and tea will be served for all meeting participants in
both rooms of the Nuclear & Environmental Equipment and Services
Exhibition halls during the breaks. On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday, the
breaks will be held in the East School.
Lunch Periods
Lunch will be served in the Exhibit Halls. Lunches served all three days will
mainly consist of sandwiches and other food that can be easily consumed while
visiting the exhibits and posters. Luncheon hours are from 12:30 to 13:30. Paid
registration includes the luncheon price for all three days. A listing of local
restaurants is also listed within the Programme on page 18.
Speaker Ready Room
A planning room will be available where speakers may review their
PowerPoint slides, overheads, and notes. This room will be open from 8:00 to
17:00 at the Conference Centre, Room 5 - Level 1, Monday through Thursday,
and on Sunday 17:00 to 19:00.
Technical Tours
There are three technical tours planned for the conference attendees. The three
technical tours will take place immediately following the conference on
Thursday, and Friday, September 25th and 26th, and include on-site visits,
taking in five establishments. The tours aim to give conference attendees
opportunities to see UK radioactive waste management programmes, first
hand. Please note: These tours were pre-booked and all three tours are full.
For security reasons, we are unable to take further reservations.
The tours will include the facilities of:
• The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) - which
is responsible for managing the decommissioning of the nuclear
reactors and other radioactive facilities used for the UK’s nuclear
research and development programme for the UK’s input to
European fusion research;
• Nirex - which is responsible for developing long-term options
for radioactive materials. It also maintains the UK national
inventory (with the Department of the Environment Food
and Rural Affairs) and advises the industry on treating and
packaging its radioactive waste;
• British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) - which operates in the
UK and overseas, providing fuel manufacture and reactor services
(through Westinghouse); nuclear decommissioning and clean
-up services and spent fuel management (including reprocessing)
and engineering services; and operates the fleet of Magnox power
stations, some of which are being decommissioned.
Tour A - Culham and Harwell
• UKAEA - Culham Fusion Facility;
• Nirex Packaging and Transport Culham Test Facility; and
• UKAEA Harwell
The tour will first visit the EFDA-JET fusion experimental facility at Culham,
some 10 miles south of Oxford. EFDA-JET is the flagship of the European
Community’s fusion research programme and the precursor to the “next step”
devices such as ITER. In 1997, JET reached a record 16 MW of fusion power.
Visitors will also be able to see the EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association’s
own fusion experiment called MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak).
The Culham site is also the location of Nirex’s waste packaging and transport
exhibition and display area. The facility holds examples of Nirex’s standard
packages and containers that have undergone performance testing. These include
scale model re-usable shielded transport containers, 500 litre drums, 3 cubic
metre boxes and the 4-metre box. Lunch will be held at the facilities of the
National Radiological Protection Board at Harwell.
The tour will culminate with a visit to UKAEA’s Harwell site, about 9 miles
south of Culham. Harwell is the headquarters of the UKAEA and hosts a
number of nuclear research facilities that were instrumental in the development
of the UK nuclear programme. Visitors will be able to see the decommissioning
activities taking place at a number of locations on the site, including the
Graphite Low Energy Experimental Pile (GLEEP), a thermal heterogeneous
reactor which operated between 1947 and 1990, and the 26 MW (Th) materials
test reactor DIDO, which operated until 1990. Also included will be a visit to the
newly constructed Vault Store and the Liquid Effluent Treatment Plant.
Schedule for Tour A - Culham and Harwell
Friday, 26th September
8:00 Depart Oxford Examination Schools (by coach)
8:30 Arrive Culham Science Centre
8:40 Welcome and Coffee
9:00 Presentation and Tour of JET/MAST machines
11:00 Depart for Tour of Nirex facility, Culham
11:05 Tour of Nirex facility
12:35 Depart Culham Science Centre
13:00 Arrive NRPB Conference Center
13:05 Lunch
13:50 Presentation by John Wilkins, Head of Site
14:30 Depart NRPB for tour of Harwell IBC
14:45 GLEEP Decommissioning Visit and Presentation
15:30 Depart GLEEP for Site Tour
16:00 Arrive B462 for Tour of Vault Store
17:00 Depart Harwell IBC
17:30 Arrive Oxford
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