RERTR-2012 International Meeting

The U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Global Threat Reduction in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency hosted the “RERTR 2012 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors.” The meeting was organized by Argonne National Laboratory, Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) and Idaho National Laboratory and was held in Warsaw, Poland from October 14-17, 2012. This was the 34^th annual meeting in a series on the same general subject regarding conversion of reactors within the Global Threat Reduction Initiative.

Information was exchanged on the progress of national and international programs to develop low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuels and targets for research and test reactors and to convert research reactors and radioisotope production processes to the use of such fuels and targets. The meeting technical subjects included:

• development of new LEU fuels,
• development and testing of LEU targets and processes for the international production of Mo-99,
• design and safety analyses for reactor conversions,
• transportation and storage of spent fuels, and
• HEU minimization for Global Threat Reduction.