21st International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry
Date: April 14, 2025 - April 17, 2025
Event Location: Renaissance Aix-en-Provence Hotel, Aix-en-Provence, France
Organized by: ASTM Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys
About the Event
The 21st International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry will be held April 14, 2025 through April 17, 2025. The symposium is organized by ASTM Committee B10 on Reactive and Refractory Metals and Alloys, and will be held at the Renaissance Aix-en-Provence Hotel, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Objective and Scope
The purpose of the symposium is to provide a forum for exchanging new information on the fabrication, testing, development, and characterization of both traditional and new zirconium-based materials used in the nuclear industry, including materials performance during normal, transient, and accident conditions as well as materials behavior during intermediate and long-term storage conditions. Of particular interest are studies that focus on identifying and understanding the mechanisms and behaviors of zirconium-based materials.
Appropriate topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Basic Metallurgy and Processing
- Fabrication and Alloy Development
- Mechanical Behavior
- Corrosion and Hydriding
- In-Reactor Performance
- Irradiation Effects
- High-Temperature and Transient Phenomena
- Mechanistic Modeling of Processing or Performance
- Intermediate and Long-Term Storage Performance
- Coatings for Accident Tolerant Fuel
The language of the symposium will be English.
Both oral and poster presentations are planned. The John Schemel Award for the best paper of the symposium will be selected from the submitted papers. The best poster will also be recognized at the symposium.
Abstract Submission
For those interested in presenting a paper or a poster at the symposium, authors must submit a 250 to 300-word preliminary abstract no later than June 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.
The abstract must include a clear definition of the objective and approach of the work discussed, pointing out material that is new, and present sufficient details regarding results. The manuscript must not be of a commercial nature, nor can it have been previously published. Because a limited number of abstracts will be accepted, be sure that the abstract is complete to allow for careful assessment of the paper’s suitability for this symposium. The symposium co-chairs will notify you by September 15, 2024, via email of your paper’s acceptability for presentation at the symposium, either as platform presentation or poster. If the preliminary abstract is accepted, the author will be requested to submit a final abstract a few months before the start of the symposium. The final abstracts will be distributed in an abstract booklet at the symposium.
Publication Information
Symposium presenters are required to submit their papers to the Selected Technical Paper (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. STP papers should be full-length technical papers, significantly contribute to the technical literature, and must include a review of past work in the relevant area and present information of current interest or probe new fields. Please note that manuscripts for this symposium will have a 10,000-word limit. The limit includes tables and figures which, if normal size, are equal to about 250 words each. Author Instructions are available here. Manuscripts to be peer reviewed for the STP must be submitted to the ASTM Editorial Office online no later than February 28, 2025. The corresponding author (the author who is the main contact with ASTM Headquarters) will receive a copy of the 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.
Technical Program
The technical program (presentation times, paper titles, and presenters’ names) will be posted on this site in late 2024.
Registration
Registration will open in January 2025. More details will be posted at a later date.
Technical Chair Contact Information
Editorial Chair: Dr. Fabien Onimus
Research Director, Professor
CEA - Saclay
Email: fabien.onimus@cea.fr
Symposium Chair: Dr. Michael Preuss
Professor for Structural Materials, Materials Science and Engineering
Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton, Vic-3800, Australia
Email: michael.preuss@monash.edu
Professor of Metallurgy, Department of Materials
University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
Email: michael.preuss@manchester.ac.uk
Standards Development Meetings
ASTM Committee B10 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 its future meetings, please visit the Committee B10 Homepage.