This year's IAEA Scientific Forum will be held during 21-22 September at Austria Center in Vienna (ACV) on the theme of 'Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Issues and Challenges'. The IAEA has been holding Scientific Forums annually during the IAEA General Conference in an effort to diagnose the currently impending global issues and to prescribe recipes among the experts how nuclear energy can contribute to solving the issues. The IAEA is inviting representatives from Member States and other relevant organizations to participate and express their views on the theme. (Source: IAEA)

The Forum will comprise three sessions on the following topics: Advanced Fuel Cycles and Reactor Concepts, Waste and Spent Fuel Management Issues, and Research Reactor Fuel Cycle and Related Issues. The first session is expected to cover key issues in fuel cycle options, achievements and prospects for advanced reactor design and fuel cycle, generic consideration of fuel cycle systems for sustainable development as well as key issues requiring research and development programmes. The second session will examine spent nuclear fuel management, advanced in reprocessing of spent fuel as well as in treatment of waste from reprocessing spent fuel. The third session will focus on research reactor fuel issues including replacement of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU), research reactor utilization and spent fuel management.

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