The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and CIEMAT are co-organising the Seventh International Workshop on Structural Materials for Innovative Nuclear Systems (SMINS-7). The workshop will be held in Madrid (Spain) from 31 March to 3 April 2025, hosted by CIEMAT, and with the support of industry, Newcleo, Naarea, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as the Joint Programme on Nuclear Materials of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA JPNM), and CONNECT-NM Co-funded European Partnership on Nuclear Materials.

Background

Materials research is a field of growing relevance for advanced nuclear systems, such as Generation IV reactors, Small Modular Reactors, Advanced Modular Reactors and Micro Reactors, transmutation systems and fusion devices. For these different systems, structural materials must be selected or developed to address the specific challenges of their foreseen operational environments. This requires both cross-cutting research programmes and advanced experimental/simulation facilities to characterise and evaluate the performance of materials.

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate an exchange of information on current materials research programmes for different innovative nuclear systems, with a view to identifying and developing potential synergies. Scope The workshop will cover fundamental studies, modelling and experiments connected with the discovery, design, development, manufacturing and joining, qualification and behaviour in operation of innovative structural materials, including cladding materials, for advanced nuclear systems such as thermal, fast and sub-critical reactors, as well as fusion systems.

Important dates (registration and abstract submission)
Participants willing to give a presentation should submit an abstract by 18 November 2024.

When uploading your abstract we also ask that you agree to grant rights for the OECD/NEA to publish the abstract in a summary report on SMINS-7.

Participants planning to attend the meeting are invited to complete the Registration form before 31 January 2025 (NB: you will need to login into your NEA account or pre-register if you do not already have an NEA account).

More on Abstract submission and programme here!