WPFC Expert Group on Advanced Fuel Cycle Scenarios (EGAFCS)
Ongoing

Scope

Under the guidance of the  Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) , the Expert Group on Advanced Fuel Cycle Scenarios (EGAFCS) studies the needs associated with the transition from current to future advanced nuclear fuel cycles. 

Objectives

The objectives of the EGAFCS are:

  • To assemble, organise and understand the scientific issues of advanced fuel cycles, in particular to support emerging nuclear fuel cycle technologies;
  • To provide a framework for assessing specific national needs related to implementation of advanced fuel cycles.

These objectives are critical to implementing a sustainable nuclear energy infrastructure and their fulfilment entails:

  • defining the key scientific issues by collecting and comparing information available from experts in member countries, organising the information in a systematic way and providing a deep level of understanding of each of them;
  • assembling technical information on the existing and future technologies, including transmutation and storage technologies;
  • developing and assessing generic scenarios that are representative of the different strategies envisaged in the member countries;
  • evaluating the potential of systems beyond the current thermal and fast technologies.
Publications and reports
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results
Structure

Meetings

  • 34th meeting (10 Nov. 2021, remote)
  • 33rd meeting (13 Sept. 2021, remote)
  • 32nd meeting (24 Jun. 2021, remote)
  • 31st meeting (6 May 2021, remote)
  • 30th meeting (25 Mar. 2021, remote)
  • 29th meeting (25 Feb. 2021, remote)
  • 28th meeting (22 Jan. 2021, remote)
  • 27th meeting (18 Dec. 2020, remote)
  • 26th meeting (18 Nov. 2020, remote)
  • 25th meeting (16 Oct. 2020, remote)
  • 24th meeting (10 Sept. 2020, remote)
  • 23rd meeting (15 Jul. 2020, remote)
  • 22nd meeting (17 Jun. 2020, remote)
  • 21st meeting (13 May 2020, remote)
  • 20th meeting (14 Apr. 2020, remote)
  • 19th meeting (11-12 Sept. 2019, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 18th meeting (7-8 Feb. 2019, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 17th meeting (27-28 Sept. 2018, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 16th meeting (Feb. 2018, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 15th meeting (5-6 Oct. 2017, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 14th meeting (6-7 Feb. 2017, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 13th meeting (6-7 Oct. 2016, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 12th meeting (1-2 Feb. 2016, NEA HQ, Boulogne-Billancourt)
  • 11th meeting (17-18 Sept. 2015, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 10th meeting (16-17 Feb. 2015, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 9th meeting (12-13 Nov. 2014, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 8th meeting (26-27 May 2014, OECD Headquarters, Delta Building, Boulogne-Billancourt, France)
  • 7th meeting (14-15 Nov. 2013, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 6th meeting (18-19 Feb. 2013, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 5th meeting (24 Sept. 2012, Prague, Czech Republic)
  • 4th meeting (13-14 Feb. 2012, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 3rd meeting (3-4 Oct. 2011, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 2nd meeting (21-22 Feb. 2011, NEA offices, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  • 1st meeting (5 Nov. 2010, San Francisco, USA)

EGAFCS working area (password protected | reminder)

Contact

Gabriele Grassi