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The 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference

April 5 to April 9, 2016, CNCC, Beijing, China

“Nuclear: Powering the Development of the Pacific Basin and the World"

Hosted by: Chinese Nuclear Society

China National Nuclear Corporation

State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation

China General Nuclear Power Corporation

China Nuclear Engineering Group Corporation

Conducted under the auspices of the Pacific Nuclear Council (PNC)

The 20th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference（PBNC 2016）, will be held in

China National Convention Center, Beijing, China from April 5 to April 9,

2016, at the same time and venue as the China International Nuclear

Industry Exhibition (Nuclear Industry China, NIC14).

PBNC is a biennial global academic and industrial forum organized by the

Pacific Nuclear Council (PNC) and hosted by nuclear societies and

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associations of countries and regions around the Pacific Rim, under the

auspices of the Pacific Nuclear Council (PNC).

PBNC 2016 in Beijing will bring together outstanding nuclear scientists

and technical experts, senior industry executives, senior government

officials and international energy organization leaders from all across the

Pacific Rim and Europe. It is committed to promoting communication

and cooperation in nuclear science and technology, discussing

challenges facing nuclear technology, highlighting future developments

and advancing peaceful use of global nuclear energy.

Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference has been held successfully for 19 times

since 1976 with its initial conference held in Hawaii, and the most recent

one in Vancouver, Canada. Chinese Nuclear Society has successfully held

the conference in 1987 and 2002.

The locations of the Pacific Basin Conferences are: Honolulu, Hawaii,

USA (1976), Tokyo, Japan (1978), Acapulco, Mexico (1981), Vancouver,

Canada (1983), Seoul, Republic of Korea (1985), Beijing, China (1987),

San Diego, California, USA (1990), Taipei, China (1992), Sydney, Australia

(1994), Kobe, Japan (1996), Banff, Canada (1998), Seoul, Republic of

Korea (2000), Shenzhen, China (2002), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (2004),

Sydney, Australia (2006), Aomori, Japan (2008), Cancun, Mexico (2010),

Busan, Republic of Korea (2012), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2014).

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Committees and Chairpersons

Honorary chairperson

Conference Chairperson

Conference Steering Committee

Chairpersons:

LEI Zengguang, Vice President of Chinese Nuclear Society, Chief Engineer

of China National Nuclear Corporation

Mimi Limbach, President of Pacific Nuclear Council

Technical Program Committee

Chairperson:

JIANG Hong, Vice General Manager of China Nuclear Power Engineering

Co., Ltd

Conference Organization Committee

Chairperson: LI Guanxing, President of Chinese Nuclear Society

Executive Co-chair:

SHEN Lixin, Deputy Secretary General of Chinese Nuclear Society

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The content of PBNC2016

Student

Program Technical

Tour

Parallel

Session Plenary

Session

Panel

Session

Opening

Ceremony

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Conference Schedule

2016.04.05 17:30-21:30 Registration

2016.04.05 18:30-21:30 Reception

2016.04.06 07:30-08:30 Registration

2016.04.06 09:00-12:00 Opening Ceremony &

Keynote Address

2016.04.06 13:30-17:00 Plenary

2016.04.07 09:00-12:00 Parallel Technical Session

Panel session

2016.04.07 13:30-17:00 Parallel Technical Session

Panel session

2016.04.08 09:00-12:00 Parallel Technical Session

Panel session

2016.04.08 13:30-17:00 Parallel Technical Session

Panel session

2016.04.08 17:30-20:00 Closing ceremony &

Banquet

2016.04.09 09:00-12:00 Parallel Technical Session

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Important Dates

Start Date of Abstract Submission 2015.04.01

Deadline of Abstract Submission 2015.12.31

Deadline of Paper Submission 2016.01.31

Deadline of Paper Reviewing 2016.01.31

Paper Acceptation Notification 2016.02.05

Online Registration 2015.11.02

Deadline of Early-Online Registration 2016.01.31

Deadline of Late-Online Registration 2016.03.31

On-site Registration 2016.04.05

Conference Opening Ceremony 2016.04.06

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Technical Tracks

Track 1 Safety and Security

Safety Forum: safety analysis; safety features; severe accidents; extreme

accident; accident management, emergency planning; Post Fukushima;

stress testing; human performance; seismic margin; probabilistic analysis;

risk assessment; safety culture.

Track 2 Operation and Maintenance

Operator Forum: operation availability; maintenance; inspection;

reliability; capacity factor; stress testing; outage management; fuel

performance; addressing ageing and obsolescence; power uprating;

improvement and modification; component replacement; supply chain.

Track 3 Power Reactor and New Buildings

Industry Forum: new reactors; advanced power reactors; nuclear physics

and thermal hydraulic; safety analysis; safety features; severe accidents;

extreme accident; accident management, emergency planning; Post

Fukushima; human performance; seismic margin; probabilistic analysis;

risk assessment; nuclear code and standards; practically elimination of

large release radioactivity.

Track 4 Waste Management

Waste Management Forum: designing for environment protection; new

process and technology; evaluation of environment effects; waste

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stream management and reduction; waste and nuclear fuel

transportation; decommissioning and environmental remediation; waste

disposal; waste packaging; new requirements and standards.

Track 5 Supply Capability and Quality Control

Supplier Forum: supply capability; quality control; new manufacturing

technology; equipment qualification; seismic analysis and testing;

dealing with NCR; new requirements and standards.

Track 6 Fuel Cycles

Fuel Forum: Uranium and thorium mining; milling; refining; conversion

and enrichment; Uranium and thorium fuel manufacturing; fuel design;

fault-tolerant fuel design; fuel storage; used fuel recycling and

reprocessing.

Track 7 New Technology and New Applications

Technology Forum: GenIV reactors; SMR; fusion; hydrogen production;

space, mining and military application; advanced reactor physics;

modern fuel cycles; efficiency enhancement; new materials;

desalination.

Track 8 Public Acceptance and Nuclear Education

Public Forum: educating & partnering with public; communication; social

impacts; opinion surveys; public hearing; radiation protection; radiation

health effects; lessons learned from Fukushima; Linear-no-threshold

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issues; outreach.

Track 9 Economics and Reducing Cost

Industry Forum: economics and financing; manufacturing and modularity;

standardization application; design and construction; supply chain

assurance; market and competitive challenges.

Track 10 Acquiring Medical and Biological Benefits

Nuclear Technology Application Forum: Medical and Biological systems;

treatments and protocols; new isotope manufacture; novel accelerators

and target development; supply assurance; handing waste streams;

economics; international trends; isotope production and use; agricultural

applications.

Track 11 Student Program

Student Paper Competition: To encourage the active participation of

students in PBNC2016 by submitting high quality technical papers on the

various nuclear topics. Students in this track will be expected to make a

technical presentation as well as to design a poster summarizing their

work to be exhibited during PBNC2016 and discussed during poster

session. Registration and accommodation during the conference are free

of charge for students who are selected as best paper winners (a total of

40).

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Working Language

The conference working language is English.

Publication of Paper

You are invited to submit your paper to one of the 11 technical tracks

according to the guideline available on the conference website:

www.pbnc2016.org.

From each track, 2 to 3 best papers will be selected and recommended

to be published on the journals of American Nuclear Society, Atomic

Energy Society of Japan and Nuclear Techniques (Organized by Shanghai

Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese

Nuclear Society).

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Technique Tour

1, China Experimental Fast Reactor

Visit time：April 10, 2016 website： http://www.ciae.ac.cn/

The China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR), located in China Institute of

Atomic Energy, is the first Fast Reactor built in China with 65MW thermal

power and 20MW experimental generation power. Reactor core pool

type structure and Sodium-Sodium-Water circuit heat removal system is

applied for the first furnace, and UO2 is adopted for initial fuel.

The fast reactor system have a fast neutron spectrum, with the resulting

benefit of enhancing the utilization of uranium resources（utilization

ratio up to 60% from 1% of PWR）through breeding and fuel cycle. And

the fast reactor system can transmute the long life fission products and

consume transuranics with a closed fuel cycle, thus reducing the

radiotoxicity and heat load which facilitates waste disposal and geologic

isolation.

2, High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor

Visit time：April 10, 2016 website：http://www.inet.tsinghua.edu.cn/

The 10MW High Temperature Gas-cooled reactor-test Module (HTR-10)

is a graphite-moderated helium gas-cooled reactor and it is the first

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gas-cooled reactor in China.

In the design of HTR-10, advanced concept of newly developed modular

high temperature reactors is assimilated. Its design features a compact

side-by-side arrangement of the reactor core and the steam generator,

spherical fuel elements (6cm in diameter) with TRISO coated particles,

continuous process of fuel loading and unloading, all-around

computerized protection system and in-depth defense principles. A

completely passive decay heat removal system and a surface cooling

system are designed for HTR-10. Two reactor shutdown systems the

control rod system and the small absorber ball system, which make

possible the automatic shutdown of the reactor under emergency

conditions, are located in the reactor side reflector.

3， Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant

Visit time：April 10 to 11, 2016

website：http://www.cnecc.com/g670/s1008/t9673.aspx

Sanmen NPP is the first plant in the world that applies the most

advanced GenerationⅢ pressurized water reactor (AP1000) officially

approved by the State Council. The plant is located in a peninsula of

Jiantiao Town in Sanmen County, Taizhou city of Zhejiang province. Six

units, each with 1000MWe capacity, were planned, two units for Phase

Ⅰproject. Sanmen NPP PhaseⅠis the first self-reliant Generation Ⅲ

NPP project in China and Unit one is the first AP1000 nuclear power unit

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around the world.

Compared with traditional PWR, the prominent characteristic of AP1000

is to reduce potential accidents under design condition by passive safety

system so that the safety of the NPP will be greatly improved.

4，Taishan Nuclear Power Plant

Visit time：April 10 to 11, 2016 website： http://www.tnpjvc.com.cn/

Taishan Nuclear Power Plant is located in Taishan city, Guangdong

province, China. Two units are constructed for Phase I project with each

a single-unit capacity of 1750MW. The unit is CEPR (Chinese EPR), a

Chinese brand of nuclear power unit developed based on third

generation European Pressurized Reactor technology (EPR) with

Sino-French joint efforts in design and construction. The construction

period of a unit is 52 months.

After the completion of Phase I project, the consumption of standard

coal can reduce about 8.48 million tons a year, and the emissions of

greenhouse gases can reduce more than 20.85 million tons.

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Registration

On-line Registration

Please register on the PBNC2016 official website: www.pbnc2016.com,

which starts on November.2, 2015.

Authors/ Presenters of accepted papers should register by the end of

January, 2016.

Registration Fees

Registration

categories

Early-Registration

By Jan.31,2016

Late-Registration

Feb.1,2016-Mar.31,2016

On-site

registration

Delegates 700USD 800USD 900USD

Exhibitors*1 600USD 700USD 800USD

Students*2 250USD 300USD 350USD

Accompanying

persons*3 110USD 130USD 150USD

1, Full Registration Fee includes: Admission to welcome reception, plenary, all technical

sessions, panel sessions, conference bag, lunches, coffee breaks, banquet and Nuclear

Industry China (NIC14).

2, Two representatives of each PNC Member country are exempted from registration fee.

*1 Exhibitors refer to those who participate in the Nuclear Industry China (NIC14).

*2 Students refer to undergraduate and graduate student, but not PHD student over

the age of 35; Registration and accommodation during the conference are free of

charge for students who are selected as best paper winners (a total of 40) in

PBNC2016 Student Program.

*3 Registration fees of accompanying Persons are only for Reception and Banquet;

they may not access to any technical sessions. Authors/Panelists may not be allowed

to register as accompanying persons and the congress bag will not be provided.

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On-site registration

Address: Find the registration desk in D and E district; enter from C3, the

first floor of China National Convention Center.

Time: 17:30-21:30, April 5, 2016

07:30-08:30, April 6, 2016

Confirmation / Receipt

A registration confirmation will be available to download after the

registration fee payment is confirmed.

Please remember to bring the confirmation to the conference to pick up

congress materials at the registration desk.

A receipt of payment is handed to you at the conference registration

desk.

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Sponsorship

For application for Sponsorship, please send the application form by

e-mail to the secretariat by the end of January, 2016.

Also, please send Advertisement design by e-mail by the end of February

2016.

As for the detail, please go to the official website: www.pbnc2016.org, or

contact us by e-mail: pbnc2016@sina.cn

There are four levels of sponsorship: diamond, platinum, gold, and silver,

with an increasing level of benefits to the sponsor.

Diamond Sponsorship 48,000USD

Platinum Sponsorship 32,000 USD

Gold Sponsorship 16,000 USD

Silver Sponsorship 10,000 USD

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Conference Venue

The conference will be held in China National Convention Center (CNCC)

which is located inside the Olympic Park with walking distance to Bird

Nest, Water Cubic. The CNCC combines hotel, exhibition hall, ballroom,

auditorium, meeting rooms, 40 Minutes to the airport.

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Insurance

The registration fee does not include insurance for the participants

regarding accidents, sickness or loss of personal property. It is advised

that participants make their own arrangements in respect of health and

travel insurance before leaving their countries.

Hotel Accommodation

A very large audience will come to Beijing for the PBNC2016 on April 5-9,

2016 and many hotels around the conference venue in Beijing will be full

during this period. Early hotel reservation is recommended. Please keep

focus on the website: www.pbnc2016.org ("Plan Your Trip”) with

reasonable price.

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Contact Information

For Abstract/Paper Consultation:

CHEN Cheng, LI Zhuoran, TANG Qing

E-Mail: cns_wanghj@126.com; tangqing@cnpe.cc

For Conference Consultation:

ZHU Yanyan, CHEN Zhi

E-Mail: cns_zyy@126.com, cns_cz@126.com