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Thursday 10 September 1998
Fleming Room, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London SW1

09:00		UI Chairman's Welcome - Mr Jean-Pierre Rougeau
09:15		Keynote Speech - Climate change: the challenge for energy supply    Dr Robert T. Watson, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
09:45		Session I - Changing electricity markets and nuclear power Chairman: Mr Jean-Pierre Rougeau
		Electricity market competition and nuclear power
		Ms Caroline Varley, Head of Energy Diversification Division, International Energy Agency
		Nuclear power in the competitive Nordic electricity market
		Mr Gõran Lagerstedt, Swedish Power Association
		The outlook for US nuclear plants in competitive electricity markets
		Mr Marvin Fertel, Senior Vice President, Nuclear Energy Institute, USA
11:30		Session II - The outlook for nuclear power and the uranium market Chairman: Mr Warren Davies
		The global nuclear fuel market to 2020
		Mr Gérard Pauluis, Head of Fuel Supply Department, Synatom SA, Belgium
		Alternative nuclear paths to 2050
		Dr Ivan Vera, Nuclear Development Division, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
14:00		Session III - Nuclear power plants for the next fifty years Chairman: Mr Michael D. Lyster
		The evolutionary development of advanced reactors
		Dr Regis A. Matzie, Vice President, ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Power, USA
		Reactor refurbishment and the development of improved designs
		Dr Wolf-Dieter Krebs, Director, Nuclear Installation, Siemens AG, Germany Paper authored by Mr Wulf Bürkle, President, Nuclear Power Generation Division, Siemens AG
		The role of small and medium-sized reactors
		Mr Jürgen Kupitz, Head, Nuclear Power Technology Development Section, International Atomic Energy Agency
15:45		Session IV - Developments in the uranium production industry Chairman: Mr Robert P. Luke
		Uranium production plans and developments in the nuclear fuel industries of Ukraine
		Mr Anatoly Chernov, Deputy Minister, Energy Ministry of Ukraine
		The Dornod uranium project in Mongolia
		Mr Wallace M. Mays, President & COO, World Wide Minerals Ltd, Canada
		The transport system for high grade McArthur River uranium ore
		Dr Bernhard Rosner, Vice President, Cameco Corporation, Canada
		The changing role of the Supervising Scientist in the uranium industry of the Kakadu region
		Mr Peter Waggitt, Principal Environmental Scientist, Supervising Scientist Group, Australia

Friday 11 September 1998

09:00		Special Presentation - The US Enrichment Corporation: privatisation and the future    Mr William H. Timbers, President and CEO, US Enrichment Corporation, USA
09:30		Session V - Radiation, health and uranium mining waste Chairman: Ms Agneta Rising
		Validity of the linear no-threshold theory of radiation carcinogenesis at low doses
		Prof Bernard L. Cohen, Physics Department, University of Pittsburgh, USA
		Waste management in the uranium mining industry
		Mr Stan Frost, Vice President, Cameco Corporation, Canada
		Long term population dose due to radon from uranium mill tailings
		Dr Douglas B. Chambers, Vice President, SENES Consultants Ltd, Canada
11:15		Session VI - Managing the waste from the nuclear fuel cycle Chairman: Mr Ian J. Duncan
		Radioactive waste management: issues and misunderstandings
		Dr Morris Rosen, International Atomic Energy Agency
		Management of low and intermediate level wastes
		Mr Reijo Sundell, Manager of Technical Supervision, TVO, Finland
		High level waste and spent fuel: tackling present and future challenges
		Mr Jean-Jacques Gautrot, Director, COGEMA, France
14:00		Session VII - The transport of radioactive materials Chairman: Mr Jack Edlow
		From front end to back end: establishing safe transport links
		Captain Alastair B. Thomas, Head of Transport, British Nuclear Fuels plc
		The transportation of mixed oxide fuel
		Dr Richard Christ, Senior Consultant, Nuclear Cargo + Service GmbH, Germany
		Public and media acceptance of nuclear materials transport
		Mr Eric Lindeman, Director, Washington Nuclear Corporation, USA
15:45		Session VIII - The outlook for nuclear fuel fabrication Chairman: Dr David Scobie
		Long term strategy and nuclear fuel evolution
		Mr Jean-Paul Lannegrace, Executive Vice President, Framatome, France
		Perspectives on LWR fuel development
		Mr Gunnar Vesterlund, Marketing Manager, Nuclear Fuel Division, ABB Atom, Sweden
		Developments in the US and European LWR fabrication markets: a 1998 update
		Mr Charles K. Anderson, President, CKA Associates, USA
20:00		Farewell Banquet Banquet Speech: Research on the Back-End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle    Dr Chang Kun Lee, Commissioner of the Korean Atomic Energy Commission