•Kozloduy

•NPP

www.bgns.bg

BULGARIAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY

International Conference

NUCLEAR POWER FOR THE PEOPLE

www.bgns.bg

19- 22 September, 2016

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Kozloduy

NPP

Main Topics

Radiation protection and

Environment

Nuclear in Medicine

NPP Lifetime Management NPP Safety

NPP Decommissioning RAW Management

Advances in Nuclear Technology Safety Culture

Regulatory Issues Education and Training

Particular attention will be granted to the safety culture in nuclear and the associated

issues – education in safety culture, application of knowledge and skills of safety

culture, self-assessment and policy to improve the safety culture. It is expected that

the Kozloduy NPP experts will present their experience in the self-assessment study as

well as the new courses and approaches outlined by the Horizon 2020 CORONA II

international project.

Safety culture is a replica of the culture of the individual. What are the leading

elements that could impact on safety culture level, and how we have to tailor the

education policy – these topics we would like to emphasize.

The educational policy is a key element in the building of public

engagement/acceptance toward nuclear applications including energy production.

We believe the conference environment shall help in creating and engaging more

young professionals in nuclear engineering and applications.

Objectives The conference will provide to academic and industrial experts a common forum to present and discuss the news and issues concerning nuclear technology and nuclear applications. The “Nuclear power for the people” conference aims also to bring together nuclear specialists, to present their results and to raise the interest of the general public to the achievements and uses of nuclear science and technologies.

Participants Bulgarian and foreign experts, professionals, researches, professors and authorities related to the nuclear energy will take part.

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Time schedule

Monday, 19.09.2016

10:00 – 12:00

16:00 – 19:00

Registration

14:00 – 16:00 Dragomir Wine cellar visit, social

19:00 - 20:30 Welcome Reception

- 25 years Bulgarian Nuclear Society

- Invited speech

Tuesday, 20.09.2016

08:00 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 11:00 Opening Session

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Session

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch, Hotel Restaurant

14:30 – 16:00 Session

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:30 Session

17:30 – 18:30 POSTERS out of competition

19:00 – 21:00 Dragomir Wine cellar visit, social

Or Theatre/concert/according to the city schedule

Wednesday, 21.09.2016

9:00 – 11:00 ORAL: YOUNG GENERATION COMPETITION

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 POSTERS: YOUNG GENERATION

COMPETITION

12:30 – 13:00 Session

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch, Hotel Restaurant

14:00 – 16:30 Excursion to Old Town of Plovdiv

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:30 Session

20:00 – 24:00 Awarding the best YG presentations.

Gala diner, Hotel Restaurant

Thursday, 22.09.2016

9:00 – 11:00 Session

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Session

12:30 Closing of the conference

aternoon Theatre/concert/according the city schedule

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Programme Committee

Chairman:

•Pavlin GROUDEV, Assoc. Professor, Dr, INRNE-BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

•Members /in ALFABET order/:

•Alexei MIASSOEDOV, Dr, IKET, Karlsruhe, Germany

•Antonio BALLESTEROS-AVILA, Dr, JRC-IET- Petten, The Netherlands

•Anton CHAUSHEVSKI, Professor, Dr, “St’s Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia

•Daniela DIACONU, Dr, INR, Pitesti, Romania

•Dimiter BALABANSKI, Professor, Dr, “Horia Hulubei” NIPyNE, Buharest-Măgurele, Romania

•Eugenijus UŠPURAS, Professor, Dr, LEI, Lithuania

•Hózer ZOLTÁN, Dr, MTA of HAS, Budapest, Hungary

•Igor KOZLOV, Assoc. Professor, Dr, IE, Odessa, National Polytechnic University, Ukraine

•Jean Pierre VAN DORSSELAERE , Dr, IRSN, France

•Jiri DUSPIVA, Dr, UJV, Rez, Prague, Czech Republic

•Kalin FYLIPOV, Assoc. Professor, Dr, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

•Leon CIZELJ, Professor, Dr, Inštitut "Jožef Stefan", Slovenija

•Ludmil TSANKOV, Assoc. Professor, Dr, “St. Кl. Ohridski University” of Sofia, Bulgaria

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Organizing Committee

Krassimira Ilieva, BgNS

Daniela Milcheva, BULATOM

Albena Georgieva, BNRA

Ludmil Nedelchev, Kozloduy NPP

Georgy Halev, Risk Engineering

Dessislava Kirilova, BgNS General

Secretary

Mariana Atanasova, BgNS Secretary

Petya Vryashkova, BgNS

For registration and information BgNS, Bulgaria, 1784 Sofia, 72 Tsarigradsko shosse Blvd Conference e-mail: conference@bgns.bg Mariana Atanasova Mobil +359 878 285525 secretariate@bgns.bg www.bgns.bg

Luis Enrique HERRANZ PUEBLA , Dr, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain Mladen MITEV, Dr, INRNE-BAS , Sofia, Bulgaria Nikola CAVLINA, Professor, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Sergey ZARITSKY, Dr, NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia Sevostian BECHTA, Professor, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden Victor KOLYKHANOV, Dr, ISPNPP, NASU, Odessa, Ukraine

Participation Fee The Participation fee amounts 270 EUR. The early registration before 01.07.2016 is with a Participation fee of 210 EUR. Students participation fee is 150 EUR. It includes conference services and materials, coffee breaks, Welcome reception, Gala dinner, lunches and excursion to Plovdiv Old town.

Accompanying person fee is 85 EUR. The fee includes Welcome reception, Gala dinner, lunches and excursion to Plovdiv Old town.

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Payment

Participation fee should be paid via bank

transfer: Bulgarian Nuclear Society,

UniCredit Bulbank

IBAN: BG92 UNCR 7630 1208 9962 05,

BIC: UNCRBGSF

Your name, BgNS conference 2016

Authors information

The authors should submit extended abstracts of up to 2 pages (maximum

4000 symbols). The abstract should contain: 1) paper title, 2) authors’ full names

and addresses, 3) name, address, phone and e-mail of the author to whom

subsequent correspondence should be directed, 4) five keywords in order of

importance. The abstract should clearly state background, objectives, results and

conclusions. It may contain figures, tables and pictures.

The Organizing Committee will inform you about the acceptance of your

paper for oral or poster presentation.

Paper publication The papers accepted for presentation on the conference are eligible for publishing in the BgNS Science and Technology Journal. Refer to www.bgns.bg for more information.

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Working language: English

Young Authors’ Competition for Best Presentation The young authors, not older than 35 years, being first author could take part in Young Authors’ Competition (YAC) for Best Presentation. Only participants who have not being ranked first in the five previous editions of the competition are allowed to take part.

The authors should submit full text of the presentation of up to 6 pages. The paper should contain: 1) paper title, 2) name, address, phone and e-mail of the first author, 3) authors’ names and full address, 4) five keywords in order of importance, 5) abstract, and 6) full text. The presentations should state clearly background, objectives, results and conclusions. The Competition Commission will review and evaluate the papers for the YAC. The Competition Commission will inform you about the acceptance of your paper for oral presentation at the conference. The rest of the papers could participate in the competition for best poster award. The best presentations nominated by both, the conference participants and Competition Commission, will be awarded.

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Competition Commission Ljudmil Tzankov, Associate Professor Dr., Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Chair Kalin Philipov, Associate Professor Dr,, Technical University of Sofia Christo Christov, Associate Professor Dr., Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”

The evaluation criteria in the competition are: correspondence with the conference title, topicality, clear statement of objectives, subject, results and conclusions, understandability, attractiveness and visualization, balance between text and images.

Deadline information: Submission of Participation form and full paper for YAC 01.08.2016 Submission of Participation form and Abstract 01.08.2016 Submission of Participation form 15.08.2016 Competition Commission notification for YAC 20.08.2016 Notification of presentation acceptance 20.08.2016 Full Paper submission 19.09.2016

Your booking for Imperial Hotel will be guaranteed if done before 10.09.2016

For reservation:

events@hotelimperial.bg

Accommodation payment to:

Bank: SG Express bank

IBAN: BG 78 TTBB94001526379633

BIC: TTBBBG22

"Qualification consult" Ltd, Imperial Hotel, Plovdiv, 1A, Arh. Kamen Petkov str.

Specify in the order: BgNS conference, your name

Single room deluxe

Accommodation

Plovdiv Imperial Hotel 4-stars offers special rates for the conference, http://hotelimperial.bg/ Single room standard 66 BGN Single room deluxe 84 BGN Double room standard 94 BGN Double room deluxe 108 BGN The price is per night and includes breakfast, two lunches, parking, fitness, internet, tourist insurance and VAT 9%.

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PLOVDIV EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019

Odeon

Ancient Theatre

Plovdiv is the oldest city in Europe - continuously inhabited

place, since the II millennium BC. Plovdiv is a contemporary of the ancient cities of Troy and Mycenae. Plovdiv was given various names throughout its long history: Evmolpia – until middle of the IV century BC, Filipopolis - at the time of Philip II of Macedon, Pulpudeva - at the time of the Thracians, Trimontsium - in the Roman era, Filibe – during the Ottoman rule Puldin - in Old Bulgarian sources

Plovdiv is a city with extraordinary destiny, having witnessed many historical vicissitudes. Its eight-thousand-years history has granted the right to be considered coeval of the human civilization and one of the oldest cities in Europe.

Shining antiquity, middle ages with elements from the Orient, renaissance and baroque with unique succession of folklore tradition build the main texture of the contemporary city center up to nowadays. The city is a cross point of cultures and landmarks, religions and beliefs, center of routes connecting countries and continents.

In the II century AD was called …the largest and most beautiful of all cities you can imagine. Its beauty shines from faraway. And a very big river – Hebar flows in the foots of its hills… by Lucian of Samosata

How to reach it? Sofia - Plovdiv: 145 km By car GPS: N 42° 08.683 E 24° 46.149 By bus from Sofia Central Bus Station http://www.centralnaavtogara.bg/ Transport service of Imperial Hotel by demand : Sofia Airport – Imperial Hotel, Plovdiv – by car, 1 - 4 persons – 155,00 BGN – by van, 1 - 7 persons - 165,00 BGN.

Social activities:

Please specify in the Participation Registration form. Dragomir Wine cellar visit /25 BGN + transport 5 BGN/

Monday, 19.09.2016, 14:00 - 16:00 or Tuesday, 20.09.2016 , 19:00 – 21:00

Theatre/concert/other /according the city schedule/

Tuesday, 20.09.2016 , 19:00

Or Thursday, 22.09.2016, afternoon

Excursion to Old Town Plovdiv – Wednesday, 21.09.2016, 14:00 – 16:30

Plovdiv

25 Years of BgNS

•BgNS was founded 25 year ago, in 1991. Members of BgNS are more than 400 individuals and 12 organizations which subject of activities is nuclear science and application for peaceful purposes.

•One of the main challenges which the nuclear community faces nowadays is very complicated and difficult for solving – the education of students and training of young specialists and the preservation and transfer of nuclear knowledge is counterbalanced by the recent trends of ageing of the nuclear workforce, declining student numbers in nuclear related fields, and the threat of losing accumulated nuclear knowledge.

The activities of the Bulgarian Nuclear Society are targeted at

Sharing knowledge about application of nuclear science and technologies aimed at improving the quality of life.

Changing the general public attitudes towards nuclear energy.

Collaborating with the governmental institutions, education and business organizations, NGOs etc. in the field of nuclear science and practice.

BgNS conference 2009,

Veliko Tarnovo

The BgNS TRANSACTIONS is a science and technology journal, issued since May 1996. Up to now there are 20 volumes printed. The journal is distributed to the National Library, the Bulgarian Academy of Science, papers’ authors, BgNS members. It is available for international exchange.

WiN-Bulgaria Association was established in 1996. Later became a member of the International Organization WIN–Global (Women In Nuclear). More than 50 women from Kozloduy NPP, Bulgarian Academy of Science and many other companies, are members of WiN-Bulgaria.

WiN BG participants in BgNS conference - 2014

Technical visit to Krsko NPP

• Bulgarian Nuclear Society Young Generation Network was set up in 1999. It unites young Bulgarian specialists working in the field of nuclear energy for peaceful use and are below the age of 36. The number of members is about 80.

YGN Workshop

• BgNS is member of the ENS since 1991. • “ENS is the largest society for nuclear science, research and industry in Europe.

Ever since its foundation in 1975 it has been promoting the advancement of nuclear science, research and engineering to its members, decision makers and the general public. The Society’s membership includes national nuclear societies from 22 countries in Europe plus Israel. ….. about 60 corporate members, representing key stakeholders which are partners for nuclear technology and research in Europe.” (www.euronuclear.org)

Competitions for best young specialists’ presentation are arranged from 2005 every year. In this relation and after so many years of experience we can affirm that the competition is a good approach for the young contestants to carry out valuable projects, to benefit from the feedback for their presentation and by this way to feel themselves more important and needed in the society.

The conference provides a common forum to academic and industrial experts to present and discuss the news and problems concerning nuclear technology, nuclear safety, nuclear culture as well as nuclear applications in medicine. The conferences by its press-releases, briefings, and open letters based on conference’ conclusions try to provoke the interest of the general public to the latest achievements and uses of nuclear science and technologies.

The annual BgNS conferences, whose main aim is to spread the nuclear science and technology knowledge and achievements, have been carried out continuously from 1994 till 2015, almost every year. “Nuclear energy for the people” is the basic title of the conference from 2015.

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40 years ENS

See you in Plovdiv!