47th Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management (SBNWM) Symposium

Organised by the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) in the framework of the MRS2023 fall meeting, the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management (SBNWM) Symposium provides an international platform for experts and young scientists from research and waste management organisations to exchange information on recent developments of research related to fundamental and applied material science aspects in the context of the safe management and disposal of nuclear wastes.

The 47^th SBNWM 2023 symposium will include technical sessions with invited and contributed talks as well as poster sessions. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations are solicited in (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Waste forms design and performance testing as well as scale up of processing technologies
- Geological disposal of radioactive wastes: concepts, designs, and materials; container corrosion; engineered barrier systems; radionuclide solubility, speciation, sorption, and migration.
- Long-term behaviour of waste forms (SNF, glass, ceramic, cement, and advanced materials) in different disposal environments
- Materials for sequestration and immobilisation of volatile and long lived radionuclides, e.g., iodine-129 and technetium-99
- Management of waste streams from innovative and future reactor designs and nuclear technologies
- National and international waste management programs
- Development and implementation of safeguards concepts, methods and techniques, e.g. analytical methods for environmental monitoring and nuclear forensics applications
- Cross-cutting topics: recent developments and novel techniques in solid and liquid characterisation, sensing and monitoring of radionuclides, and modelling tools
- Special session: Ceramic and crystalline waste forms
- Special session: Basis for the design of multiscale/multiphase materials for nuclear waste management
- Special session: In-situ corrosion monitoring

More information: https://go.fzj.de/SBNWM2023