Presentation of conference
The ATALANTE Conferences provide an international forum for presentations and discussions on advances for future fuel cycles and waste management.
Energy perspectives for the current century are dominated by the anticipated significant increase of energy needs due to the population growth and the likely economic development of emerging countries. Particularly, electricity consumption is anticipated to increase by a factor higher than two before 2050. Furthermore, the global climate change has now been proven to be partially related to the release of greenhouse gases from anthropogenic activities, including energy production. Considering that about 80% of our current primary energy comes from fossil energies, we have to face in the near-future a challenging issue: meeting the increasing energy needs while curbing the GHG emissions.
From this perspective, nuclear energy is considered as a potential contributor to the future energy portfolio to meet the energetic needs while preserving the climate but it also has to demonstrate that it can contribute safely and on a sustainable way. Its acceptance is closely associated to our capability to reduce the lifetime of the nuclear waste, to manage them safely and to propose options for a better use of the natural resources.
This cannot be achieved only by optimizing industrial processes through engineering studies. It is of a primary importance to increase our fundamental knowledge in actinide sciences in order to build the future of nuclear energy on reliable and scientifically-founded results, and therefore meet the needs of the future fuel cycles in terms of fabrication and performance of fuels, reprocessing and waste management. Therefore, for its fifth edition and in the continuation of the series, the organisers propose to focus the ATALANTE Conference on the nuclear chemistry issues for all the fuel cycles and waste management options by giving the floor the international nuclear chemistry community through more than 150 oral contributions. In addition, a poster session will be the opportunity to enlarge this number of contributions.
Oral and poster presentations will be invited on subjects and issues that cover almost all the fields of the nuclear chemistry related to the nuclear fuel cycles.
Conference Topics
• Actinide and fission product chemistry
• Uranium ore processing and purification
• Actinide separation **
• Actinide material
• Waste conditioning and long-term evolution
• Geological repository nuclear chemistry
• Environmental nuclear chemistry
• Safeguards and analytical developments
** The separation chemistry session will be organised as the second SACSESS International Workshop
Location
Located between the Rhône valley and the Pyrenees, at only 10 minutes from the Mediterranean coast, Montpellier is a millennium city in the heart of the southern wine-producing region. It has become a major commercial, cultural and tourist hub, and offers an exceptional conference place.
Important dates
June 2015: Opening of registration and abstract submission
December 15th 2015: Deadline for abstract submission
Mid-February 2016: Notification to authors
End of March: Draft paper submission for selected papers
April 5th 2016: End of the early booking
Mid may 2015: Sending of paper reviews
June 5th: 2016: Opening of the conference
End of June 2016: Revised full paper submission
* On a volunteer basis, for selected papers
ATALANTE 2016 is organised in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency
Sponsors & Partners
Programme Committee
Chairman: Christophe Poinssot CEA/DEN/MAR/DRCP, France
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Information on registration fees
€350
€450
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Student *
Early Booking fees! After April 5th 2016, 450€
Including the attendance to the 4 day conference, all the coffee-breaks and lunches, the welcome cocktail, the poster buffet, the conference dinner and the visit.
€500
€600
1
Normal participant
Early Booking fees! After April 5th 2016, 600€
Including the attendance to the 4 day conference, all the coffee-breaks and lunches, the welcome cocktail, the poster buffet, the conference dinner and the visit.
*Students must provide a proof of their student status (student ID or certificate)
- either by e-mail as a pdf file before June 3rd 2016 (contact@atalante2016.org),
- or directly at the registration desk on the day of Conference.
No badge will be delivered without this proof.
Location and Venue
area full of great hotels and restaurants.
Location
The ATALANTE 2012 International Conference will be organised in the Corum de Montpellier. Located between the Rhône valley and the Pyrenees, at only 10 minutes from the Mediterranean coast, Montpellier is a millennium city in the heart of the southern wine-producing region. It has become a major commercial, cultural and tourist hub, and features an exceptional conference centre, the Corum.
Montpellier’s international airport has connections to 60 destinations across France, Europe and worldwide. With 11 daily services from Paris aboard France’s famous TGV, the centre of Montpellier is only a 3.15 hour train ride away. By road it is a short drive from key cities such as Marseille, (1h30), Barcelona (2.30hrs) and Geneva (4hrs).
Accomodation
A lot of hotels are available downtown, at a walking distance for the Corum. June is a very busy month in Montpellier
Book you room as soon as possible !
Access
By car: Take exit 29 “Montpellier centre” and then the direction of “Corum”. Follow the direction of “Corum parking”
By train: Montpellier St Roch train station is 10 min from the corum.
By plane: Montpellier-Méditerranée airport by shuttle bus (Navette Aéroport Montpellier, ligne 120) or taxi – 15 min.
By tramway: Take the Mosson tramway (L1) and get off at the Corum stop.