FR21 International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles will be hosted in Beijing

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AtomInfo.Ru, PUBLISHED 05.08.2020

The IAEA once again brings together the fast reactor and related fuel cycles community by organizing the International Conference on Fast Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles: Sustainable Clean Energy for the Future (FR21).

The FR21 Conference will be hosted by the People's Republic of China via the China Institute for Atomic Energy (CIAE) in Beijing from 10 to 13 May 2021.

The FR21 Conference is a follow-up of the previous successful IAEA Conferences FR09 (Kyoto, 2009), FR13 (Paris, 2013) and FR17 (Yekaterinburg, 2017). The last Conference, FR17, was attended by almost 600 participants from 27 countries and 6 international organizations, delivering 240 oral and 200 poster presentations on different fields of fast reactor and related fuel cycle technologies.

Topics: IAEA, Fast breeders

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