Canadian Nuclear Society - CNS

CNS CANDU Fuel Technology Course
2009-10-05 00:00 - 2009-10-07 00:00 UTC
Course Overview
Aim of Course
The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the CANDU fuel design, performance and operation, and how the fuel interacts with the interfacing systems. The course will be of great interest to the fuel designers, manufacturers, station operations, fuel channel and fuel handling system designers, safety analysts, performance and inspection staff.
Course Outline
This course will provide an overview of the CANDU fuel design, performance and operation, with a special emphasis on the systems that interface with it. Fuel, more than any other reactor components, interfaces with many different systems. This course is designed to enlighten those involved in fuel design and performance of the interfaces; and vice versa. The course will describe the design of the bundle, the detailed nuclear physics of its operation, the thermal-hydraulic performance, the fuel handling, fuel and physics of the reactor, the discharge and storage of the fuel.
Fee Structure
All fees include GST

CNS Member $730.00
Non-Member $835.00
Student $360.00

Course Registration
Click HERE to register for the CNS CANDU Fuel Technology Course 2009 October 5-7
This will create a pop-up window for the conference from www.signupmaster.com (a secure site). Users will get an immediate receipt if they pay by credit card.
Hotels
The Course Hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn, Oakville.
Please make accommodation arrangements, if required, directly with the hotel (905) 829-1145. Special group rate of $124 + tax per night is available for course participants if booked before September 21, 2009. Refer to “CNS Fuel Technology Course” at time of booking

CNS CANDU Reactor Safety Course
2009-09-14 00:00 - 2009-09-16 00:00
Course Overview
Safety is of primary consideration in the design and operation of nuclear reactors. If nuclear power generation is to survive, it has to meet ever-increasing safety demands. To address the safety-training needs of the Canadian nuclear industry, the CNS is once again happy to offer the CANDU Reactor Safety course. Previous offerings of this course were very successful and enrolment has been constantly high. This course is eligible for Continuing Education Units in the context of the Engineering Institute of Canada Continuing Education program.
The course provides an introduction to CANDU reactor safety and licensing principles, at the same time offering an overview of the major systems in a CANDU plant. The course is ideally suited for beginning professionals, but also beneficial to experienced professionals who wish to broaden their knowledge beyond their own field of expertise.
Continental breakfast, buffet lunch, and coffee breaks are provided each day. There will also be a banquet on the second evening of the course. The after-dinner speech at the banquet will highlight a timely topic in the Canadian Nuclear industry.
Topics to be covered in the course include:

Design and licensing fundamentals
Core-physics safety analysis
Thermalhydraulics
Safety-related systems
Deterministic and probabilistic safety analyses
Severe core-damage assessment
Safety R&D

Fee Structure
All fees include GST

CNS Member $693.00 [Must be a CNS member in good standing]
Non-Member $798.00
Student or CNS retiree $315.00

Course Registration
Click HERE to register for the CNS CANDU Reactor Safety Course 2009 September 14-16
This will create a pop-up window for the conference from www.signupmaster.com (a secure site). Users will get an immediate receipt if they pay by credit card.

Hotels
The Course Hotel is the Toronto Marriott Airport Hotel, Toronto, shown in the interactive map below. A special room rate of $139 + $10 parking per night is available. To receive the special hotel rate, you must book by August 27 2009. Call 1-800-905-2811 and request the Canadian Nuclear Society Course Group Booking.

NEO 2010 testing and draft page
2008-09-01 00:00
Sponsors:

If you would like to help sponsor this event please read this document, and then contact Jay Harris, the Conference Director, at jay ddot k ddot harris `at` gmail ddot com.

Registration

NEO-2010 Registration Fees

Registering:

By May 15

After May 15

CNS Member

$530.00

$610.00

Non CNS Member

$615.00

$695.00

CNS Retiree Member

$120

$150

Full-Time Student

$120

$150

Click HERE to register for the CNS Conference on Nuclear Education and Outreach (NEO 2010) 2010 June 20-22

Conference Presentations/Papers
Submissions for this conference could take one of two forms. For presentations of full papers please see the full paper guidelines. If the presentation is not based or coinciding with a paper please follow the other submissions guideline below. Each submission will be viewed on a case by case basis. The style of submission will not be a factor in the consideration of the presentation.
Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of full papers: May 15, 2010
Date of confirmation to authors regarding acceptability of papers: May 30, 2010
Early Registration date: May 15, 2010

Guidelines for Full Papers:
Papers should include enough information for a clear presentation of the topic. The name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information of the author(s) should appear below the title of the paper. A short abstract of 50-100 words must be placed at the beginning of the paper. A length of ~10 pages with an electronic file size of less than 5 MB is suggested for a typical paper.
Guidelines for Other Submissions:
Discussions or presentations without written papers are also welcome. These however will of course not appear in the Conference Proceedings. A statement of commitment to present without a written paper is still required. This can be done via the paper-submission link on the Conference website. Simply give a title for the talk and indicate that it will be without a written paper. All such commitments are subject to Organizing Committee acceptance, as are written papers.
Procedure:

Submissions of full papers should be made electronically, preferably in MS Word format, through the Annual Conference electronic submission system. To help with planning, authors are kindly asked to log onto the electronic submission system and input the title and main author of their planned paper even before making the full submission.

Hotel
A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Alma on the University of Calgary campus.
Euro-Style Standard Room – Description:

Queen size bed
32-inch flat-screen TV
Minifridge, microwave and coffee makers
Desk with ergonomic chair
Wi-Fi, MP3 clock radio
Complimentary Deluxe Continental Breakfast in Bistro Alma
Complimentary local phone calls
Complimentary long distance phone calls, within Continental North America
Complimentary internet access (wired and wireless)
Complimentary access to the University of Calgary Fitness Facilities

The room rate is $139 + tax, single or double.
To receive the conference rates, contact Hotel Alma directly (contact info given below) and indicate the name of the conference as Canadian Nuclear Society Conference 2010.
Hotel Alma Phone: 403-220-3203, FAX: 403-284-4184, e-mail: stay@hotelalma.ca.
Reserve early to avoid disappointment.

Tentative Conference Program

The conference schedule, list of speakers, and their submitted abstracts can be found in this document.
Transportation
Further details regarding transportation hubs (e.g. airports, train station, etc.) and transportation to/from the hubs to the hotel/conference site will be posted at a later date.

Tourism
Calgary is the largest city in Alberta, located in the south of the province in an area of foothills and high plains, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies. It is the third largest civic municipality in Canada, by population, with a population of 1,040,000 (2008)
Additional information on Calgary can be found at the following web sites:

City of Calgary

Tourism Calgary

Wikipedia

Contacts
General inquiries may be addressed to the CNS main office at cns-snc `at’ on ddot aibn ddot com, or call (416)977-7620
The Technical Program Chair, Jason Donev can be reached at jmdonev `at’ ucalgary ddot ca, or call (403)210-6343
For sponsorship information please contact the Conference Director, Jay Harris, jay ddot k ddot harris `at` gmail ddot com
