Annual Meeting 2009

The ANNUAL MEETING ON NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY 2009 was held by the Deutsches Atomforum e.V. (German Atomic Forum) and the Kerntechnische Gesellschaft e.V. (German Nuclear Society) at the Congress Centre Dresden on May 12 - 14, 2009. dbcm GmbH, Sankt Augustin, was responsible for the organisation.
The programme comprised three categories of lecture events:

• Plenary sessions with survey talks
• Topical sessions with invited papers
• Technical sessions with papers contributed to the meeting

The programme focused on German as well as on international aspects and developments of nuclear energy. Special attention was paid to new build of nuclear powerplants in Europe.

The topical sessions were partly hold in parallel on the following subjects:

• New Build Projects in Europe
• Fuel Elements, Zero Failure - Road to the Target
• Advances in Developing Integrated Management Systems to Optimise Facility Safety and Availbility
• The Future of Nuclear Energy worldwide and in Germany
• Recent Topics
• Fast Reactor Systems: the Closed Fuel Cycle
• Thermohydraulic Experiments for Reactors of the II and III Generation

The programme was supplemented by a Nuclear Energy Campus. This event was dedicated as briefing for highschool students.