Welcome to the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Symposium 

The safe management of nuclear wastes is one of the great scientific and social challenges of the 21st century.

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.

For maximal knowledge exchange and scientific and social networking the symposium will be organised as a face-to-face event.

Conference Venue and Accomodation

art'otel Cologne
Holzmarkt 4, 50676 Cologne, Germany

Copyright: art'otel

The 47th Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Symposium will be held from 6 to 10 November 2023 in the contemporary art’otel Cologne which is situated on the restructured district Rheinauhafen, offering spectacular views of the Rhine River and the harbour.

The amenities of the hotel are enriched with over 300 original artworks of one of the famous artist SEO from Korea. For more information and directions please see the art'otel website

Blocks of rooms have been reserved for the conference participants (special rate: 125 € /single room per night and 145 € double room per night)

The contingent is bookable directly at the hotel under the keyword "SBNWM 2023" and will remain until 09/24/2023.

Please do your reservation directly at the hotel by mentioning the keyword.
Phone: +49 30 400 557 700
Email: acores@artotelsqermanv.com

Cologne  

Copyright: Dieter Jacobi / KölnTourismus GmbH

The 2000-year-old city on the Rhine Germany's oldest city with innumerable historical treasures At the same time Cologne is a lively culture metropolis with over 40 museums, such as the Museum Ludwig, which houses the biggest pop art collection outside the USA.

Cologne can easily be reached by public transport from three different airports (all airports mentioned below have direct access to an own railway station):

COLOGNE/BONN AIRPORT (CGN) 15 km
Take a regional express train (RE) or the suburban line (S) 19 to Cologne central station (Hauptbahnhof) (approx. 15-minute journey).

FRANKFURT AIRPORT (FRA) 180.0 km
Take a intercity express train (ICE) to Cologne central station (Hauptbahnhof) (approx. 55-minute journey).

DUSSELDORF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (DUS) 45.0 km
Take one of the serveral express train or suburban line connections to Cologne central station (Hauptbahnhof) (approx. 90-minute journey).

Call for Abstracts

The 47th SBNWM 2023 symposium will include technical sessions with invited and contributed talks as well as poster sessions. Authors must submit abstracts limited to 300 words on one single page end of April 2023, using a dedicated template.

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 (organised by Nina Huittinen, HZDR, Dresden, Germany); detailed session description see in the download area on the right side
• Special Session: Basis for the design of multiscale/multiphase materials for nuclear waste management (organised by Agnes Grandjean, CEA, Marcoule France); detailed session description see in the download area on the right side
• Special Session: In-situ corrosion monitoring (organised bei Anamul Haq Mir, University of Huddersfield, UK); detailed session description see in the download area on the right side

To submit your abstract please use the

ONLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

of conftool.

Please note that we are not allowed to accept contributions from authors affiliated with a Russian or Belarusian institution. Such submissions must be rejected.

Short Instructions:
In order to submit an abstract for SBNWM 2023 at first you have to create an user account (account will be used for registration later on). You will receive your personal login details via email. Please follow the link „Abstract Submission“ in the section „Your Submissions“ in order to get access to the submission page.

You will be guided through the following submission steps:
1. Step - indicate authors
2. Step - enter title and text
3. Step - choose abstract topic and click extra fields
4. Step -> "proceed"
5. Step - upload abstract file
6. Step - preview/save

During the phase of abstract submission the contributions may be amended with your personal login. More information for submitting authors you can find here.

Conference fee includes:

• Admission to all scientific sessions (oral and poster)
• Admission to the ice-breaker on Sunday evening

• Admission to the conference dinner on Wednesday evening
• Conference material

• Coffee breaks and lunches

• Tax