18th ISRD

18th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry

Date: May 18, 2025 - May 23, 2025

Event Location: Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Jointly Sponsored by: ASTM Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications and the European Working Group on Reactor Dosimetry (EWGRD)

About the Event

The 18th International Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry will be held May 18-23, 2025 at the Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Please note that the technical sessions will not start until the morning of May 19, 2025. The symposium is being organized by ASTM and is jointly sponsored by the ASTM International Committee E10 on Nuclear Technology and Applications and the European Working Group on Reactor Dosimetry (EWGRD).

This symposium is held approximately every three years to provide a forum for the interchange of state-of-the-art techniques, databases, and standardization of radiation metrology. The symposium will be of value to those involved in reactor dosimetry including researchers, manufacturers, and representatives from industry, utilities, and regulatory agencies.

The symposium language will be English and no translations will be provided.

For information on past symposia in this series, please visit www.reactordosimetry.org.

Objective and Scope

The theme of ISRD is dosimetry for the assessment of irradiated reactor materials and reactor experiments, featuring radiation metrology techniques, nuclear databases, and standardization. The topic areas for ISRD18 include the following:

Experimental techniques, measurements and monitoring
Calculational and transport methods
Reactor surveillance, plant life management and decommissioning
Nuclear data, uncertainties and adjustments
Benchmarks and inter-comparisons
Dosimetry in test and research reactors, including accelerators and fusion facilities

This symposium is organized into a single track of oral and poster presentations, along with informal roundtables and workshops. This format provides for in-depth discussion during and after the sessions and promotes a strong community of attendees.

Abstract Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit an approximately 250-word abstract by October 15, 2024.** To ensure your abstract was received into the ASTM database, please email symposia@astm.org and let us know that you have submitted an abstract.

Abstracts must include a:

Clear definition of the research objective
Scientific approach of the work
Result that constitutes a novel contribution to the field.

Abstracts must be complete enough to allow for careful assessment of the paper's suitability for this symposium because of the limited number of submissions that will be accepted for presentation. The presentation and subsequent manuscript must not be of a commercial nature, nor have been previously published. Authors will be notified of acceptance of their papers for presentation by mid-December 2024. Details and dates for full paper submission will be provided upon acceptance of abstracts.

**There may be an opportunity for the symposium to accept additional abstract submissions after the submission deadline. If you are interested in submitting an abstract after October 15, 2024, please email symposia@astm.org.

Publication Information

Symposium authors are required to submit their papers for ASTM publication in an STP, an online and printed, peer-reviewed publication for the international scientific and engineering community. After the final selection of abstracts has been approved, the ASTM Editorial Office will send authors’ instructions via email only. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for the STP are due online no later than DATE at the ASTM Editorial Office. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of his/her paper in portable document format (PDF). All published authors will have the opportunity to purchase reprints of their papers at a nominal cost. Only those papers submitted by the manuscript due date will be included in the STP.

Please note that all submitted papers are subject to peer review by two independent reviewers. The STP will be submitted to the Library of Congress with an ISBN number and will be reviewed for inclusion in the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and Google Scholar.

Block Schedule and Technical Program

Registration

Registration is now open, and will close on April 30, 2025. THERE IS NO ONSITE REGISTRATION.

The fees to attend this symposium are listed below and are in USD:

	Through March 31, 2025	April 1-April 30, 2025
ASTM Member	$950.00	$1,250.00
Non-member	$950.00	$1,250.00
Presenter/Session Chair	$950.00	$1,250.00
Student*	$600.00	$600.00

What is included?

The symposium registration fees include morning and afternoon coffee breaks and a buffet lunch each day; a copy of the proceeding upon its publication; and entrance to all oral and poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, Sunday Welcome reception, Wednesday evening social (boat cruise), and Thursday evening banquet dinner.

Companions are welcome to join the Sunday reception at no charge. However, there are fees for companions to attend the Wednesday evening social and/or Thursday evening banquet. Those fees are listed below and must be paid ahead of time during the symposium delegate registration. There is no onsite registration for companions for these two events.

Wednesday Social - $125.00 per companion

Thursday Banquet - $100.00 per companion

All Attendees – All attendees must pre-register to attend this symposium and check in at the ASTM Registration Area to obtain their name badge before entering the event room.

*Students – Students may apply for the reduced registration fee provided they are a full-time student, are not employed full time, will not have their registration fee paid for or reimbursed by their university or other organization, and can provide a valid university email address for registration. Students must check in at the ASTM Registration Area on site, where they may be asked to show their valid student ID to pick up their name badge before entering the event room. To register as a student, please email symposia@astm.org.

Cancellations – A refund of the symposium fee will be honored only if requested at least 15 business days prior to the start of the event. To cancel your registration and request a refund, please contact Symposia Operations at symposia@astm.org or +1 610-832-9522.

If you have questions concerning online registration, please contact Symposia Operations by emailing
symposia@astm.org or calling +1 610-832-9522, Monday - Friday 9:00am-3:00pm Eastern.

Organizing Committee Contact Information

Americas, East and Southeast Asia, Israel		Europe, Africa, Asia (other), and Australia
ASTM Symposium Chair:		EWGRD Programme Chair:
Russell DePriest		Jan Wagemans
Sandia National Laboratories		SCK•CEN, Mol
krdepri@sandia.gov		jan.wagemans@sckcen.be


ASTM Symposium Secretary:		EWGRD Programme Secretary:
David Vehar		Dean Thornton
Sandia National Laboratories		Jacobs
dwvehar@sandia.gov		dean.thornton@jacobs.com

Continuing Education Units

SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOP attendees interested in receiving 0.35 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) must complete the CEU application form in the back of the program booklet and submit it to an ASTM staff member on site. You must be registered and have attended the entire event in order to receive the CEU’s. A certificate will be sent to the attendee approximately 2 to 4 weeks after the SYMPOSIUM/WORKSHOP concludes.

Hotel Information

The symposium will be held at the Francis Marion Hotel, 387 King Street, Charleston, SC 29403, USA.

Please support ASTM International by reserving your sleeping room at our official Symposium Hotel and Meeting site.

You may make your hotel reservation by clicking the following link: Hotel Reservations

ASTM has contracted a block of rooms at the Francis Marion Hotel. The special room rate for this event is $219.00. Hotel room rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes, which currently total 14% and are subject to change. A destination marketing fee of two dollars per room night will also be applied to each individual guest folio and is subject to sales tax. The discounted rate will be honored until the ASTM block is full, but no later than 5:00 pm EDT on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

The rate is only available for the nights of May 17 - 22, 2025. If you will need a sleeping room outside of these dates, you will need to make separate reservations. All reservations must be guaranteed and accompanied by a first night room deposit or guaranteed with a major credit card.

Hotel reservations may also be made by calling the hotel directly at + 1 (843) 722-0600 or 1 (877) 756-2121. You must mention ASTM 18th Symposium on Reactor Dosimetry when you call in order to receive the discounted rate.

Rates are non-commisionable and will not be honered if booked through a third party.

Check-in: 4:00pm EDT

Check-out: 12:00pm EDT

Cancellation Policy:

Cancellations that occur within one week of arrival date will be charged for first night's room and tax.

Standards Development Meetings

ASTM Committee E10 invites you to attend their future standards development meetings. There is no fee to attend these meetings, and membership in ASTM International is not required to attend. For more information about the committee and thier future meetings, please visit the Committee E10 Homepage.