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.

Find more details in the "BOOK OF ABSTRACTS".

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 09/30/2023.

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

Preliminary Conference Program

The 47th SBNWM 2023 symposium will include technical sessions with invited and contributed talks as well as poster sessions.

Please find more details on the agenda here: Preliminary Program

 
Conference 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

REGISTRATION FOR PARTICIPATION

Short instruction for registration

To register as conference participant, you need an account in the SBNWM 2023 ConfTool system.

1) As author you will most likely already hold a SBNWM 2023 ConfTool account . Please use your existing account for registration as participant.and log in with your user name and password. - > To start the registration process, please click on "Register as Participant" on the overview page of your ConfTool account and follow the steps of registration.

2) If you have no ConfTool account yet, your first step will be to create a new account. To create a new account, select the link "Register New" on the login page (upper left corner) and follow the instructions given there. Please enter your full name and address, and provide a valid e-mail address, as these details are required to contact you and used for invoices,

Fees 

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

Accompanying persons

You may register an accompanying person for the conference dinner (not in the scientific programme).

The fee is 70 €

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

We want to let you know about the opportunity to publish your paper being presented at Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management (SBNWM) 2023 in MRS Advances. MRS Advances features rapidly-published snapshots of work in progress on key materials topics and has a long history of publishing work from your community. This year marks Materials Research Society’s 50^th year of serving the materials research community, and we are proud to have been a home for SBNWM research for more than forty of them!

Publishing with MRS and Springer Nature (MRS’s publishing alliance since 2021) will allow for greater visibility for the issue from your symposium. MRS Advances is indexed in Scopus, SCImago, and in the Web of Science, Science Citation Index (SCI), and we are pleased that the journal has received its first Impact Factor. Articles indexed in SCI are included in an author's H-Index calculation. Published content for MRS Advances is available here.  

The journal is free to all MRS members, and by subscription to institutional libraries around the world. There is no charge for publishing in the subscription model. MRS Advances also welcomes work that must be published Open Access. Springer Nature continues to expand Read-and-Publish agreements with global academic and research institutions, which may be an opportunity for you! Be sure to check with your librarian to determine whether your article could benefit from such an agreement for Open Access publication of your article. More information on what Transformative Journals mean for authors can be found here, and a current listing of institutions and funders open research funders may be found here.

The first step for you will be to familiarize yourself with MRS Advances manuscript preparation instructions and length limitations. Submitted papers should be complete (no drafts or extended abstracts) and written in English. Papers not following the submission guidelines will be unsubmitted for correction before they are sent into peer review.

The timeline for submission and publication for SBNWM 2023 is:

Your paper will be submitted and peer reviewed via MRS’s online submission system. You will receive confirmation of your submission by email, and we will communicate with you if there are any issues with your submission. The editorial process will be conducted in a timely way to ensure rapid publication. Each paper will be published as it is accepted, so there will be no delay in getting your materials research out as quickly as possible. In addition, staff at MRS headquarters will be available to assist if you experience problems using the site.