Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Time Event (+)
13:30 - 13:45 Conference Connection - Times shown are UTC+01:00  
13:45 - 14:00 Welcome Address  
14:00 - 14:40 Keynote - Chair : Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) & Andreas Wilden (FZJ) (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Recovery of Strategic High-Value Fission Products from Spent Nuclear Fuel during Reprocessing - Alistair Holdsworth, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences [Manchester]  
14:40 - 16:00 Actinide separation - Chair : Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) & Andreas Wilden (FZJ) (+)  
14:40 - 14:55 › A new approach for monitoring radionuclides in hydrometallurgical separation processes based on Raman spectroscopy - Laura Bonales, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid]  
15:00 - 15:15 › A new unsymmetrical diglycolamide for selective americium partitioning - Filip Kolesar, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN)  
15:20 - 15:35 › Population balance solution in the context of the actinides oxalic precipitation - Camilo RUIZ, CEA, DES, ISEC, DMRC, Univ Montpellier, Marcoule, France  
15:40 - 15:55 › Preliminary extraction and characterization studies of water-soluble BTP-(COOH)8 for the separation of trivalent actinides - Laura Diaz Gomez, Forschungszentrum Jülich  
16:00 - 16:20 Break  
16:20 - 18:00 Actinide and fission product chemistry - Chair: Jean Aupias (CEA) (+)  
16:20 - 16:35 › From Water-Soluble Peroxo Complexe of Plutonium(IV) to Solid State Plutonium peroxide - Julien Margate, CEA  
16:40 - 16:55 › Crystallization of Tri- and Tetravalent Plutonium Diglycolamides - Brian Rotermund, Colorado School of Mines, Idaho National Laboratory  
17:00 - 17:15 › Reactivity of actinides mono-cations with NH3 in the gas phase - Mathilde GOUJET, CEA, DES, ISEC, DMRC, Univ. Montpellier, Marcoule, France  
17:20 - 17:35 › Synthesis and Solid-State NMR of Actinide Halides - Nicolas Capra, Los Alamos National Laboratory  
17:40 - 17:55 › Volatile fission products in actinide oxides: A first-principles study - Mathieu Gascoin, CEA, DES, IRESNE, DEC, Cadarache  

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Time Event (+)
13:45 - 14:00 Conference Connection - Times shown are UTC+01:00  
14:00 - 14:40 Keynote - Chair : Andreas Wilden (FZJ) & Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) (+)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Moving from diglycolamide to monoglycolamide-a better extractant for treatment of high-level waste - Prathibha Thonakot, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic research, Kalpakkam  
14:40 - 16:00 Actinide separation - Chair : Andreas Wilden (FZJ) & Hitos Galan Montano (CIEMAT) (+)  
14:40 - 14:55 › Development of automated microfluidic system for actinide separation and analysis - Shuang Yu Han, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences [Manchester]  
15:00 - 15:15 › Molecular prediction of lanthanide cation transfer for liquid-liquid extraction - Erwann Guillam, Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule  
15:20 - 15:35 › Impacts of Lanthanide Ion Complexation on the Radiation Robustness of Diglycolamide Extractants - Michaela Bronstetter, Idaho National Laboratory, Michigan State University  
15:40 - 15:55 › SO3-Ph-BTBP stability studies under AmSel process conditions - Pablo Vacas-Arquero, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid]  
16:00 - 16:20 Break  
16:20 - 18:00 Actinide materials: nuclear fuels and radwaste matrices - Chair: Thierry Mennecart (SCK-CEN) (+)  
16:20 - 16:35 › Conversion of U(VI) and Pu(IV) by peroxide precipitation and hydrothermal treatment - Lucas Muller, Institut des Sciences et technologies pour une Economie Circulaire des énergies bas carbone  
16:40 - 16:55 › Electrochemical Investigation of Uranium Redox Behavior in Molten Chloride Salts Using Boron-Doped Diamond - Hannah Patenaude, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Nevada [Las Vegas]  
17:00 - 17:15 › Structural Investigation of Th in Uranium Oxides for Development of Age-Dating Reference Microparticles in Nuclear Safeguards - Shannon Kimberly Potts, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Nuclear Waste Management (IEK-6)  
17:20 - 17:35 › Atomistic modeling of sodium borosilicate glasses containing uranium - Kashi Subedi, Los Alamos National Laboratory  
17:40 - 17:55 › Study of dissolution kinetics and mechanisms of the phases formed during the oxidation of (U,Pu)O2 in concentrated nitric acid - Charlene MHANNA, CEA, DES, ISEC, DMRC, Univ Montpellier