August 24-28 2025
- Blue Mountain Resort, Ontario
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Call for Abstracts
Guidelines
- All abstracts must be a maximum of 250 words
- Please transfer your abstract into the text box in the submission portal
- Papers are optional but will be peer reviewed
Technical Topics
Regulatory aspects and Government policies and of nuclear waste and decommissioning
Includes new developments and updates on federal, provincial and international programs and policies, and regulatory, impact assessment, and oversight matters. Can cover contracting, permitting, compliance, privatization, new regulation, and standards development
Low level, Intermediate level & Waste Management
Includes generation through treatment, recycling, long term management and disposal, technology deployment, and effluent monitoring for all types of facilities from hospitals, research, power generating, radiochemical, and waste facilities.
Used Nuclear Fuel & High-level Waste Management
Includes treatment, recycling through interim storage, long term management and disposal. Also covers safety assessment, modellings, licensing, monitoring, sitting, and development of a deep geological repository
SMRs and their Impact on Waste Management and Decommissioning
Includes waste characteristics, recycling potential, optimization, transportation, decommissioning strategies, storage, and disposal of SMR waste.
Technology, Developments and Business strategies in Waste Storage and Decommissioning
Includes waste characteristics, recycling potential, role of artificial intelligence and digital twin. Can cover the full nuclear fuel cycle.
Waste Minimization and Alternative Waste Disposal Approaches (e.g. Recycling and Reprocessing)
Includes waste characterization, waste processing, and packaging and minimization including strategies, technologies, and technical development.
Waste Transportation
Includes transport package development and regulatory considerations, transportation logistics and operations, and integrated planning and scheduling issues for large shipping campaigns, and stakeholder and public attitude research and engagement
Engaging with all Interested Parties and transparency of communication
Includes practical examples of approaches to community and stakeholder engagement, communications, including social media, and collaborative decision-making.
Indigenous Participation in Nuclear Industry
Includes practical approaches to learning and working together between the nuclear industry and Indigenous, and non-Indigenous communities in the context of reconciliation. Includes fostering the exchange between Indigenous Knowledge and western science systems, exploring meaningful relationships and partnerships, and stewarding community well-being.
Environmental Remediation
Includes remedial actions, inspection, characterization, sampling, compliance, aquifer and soil remediation and management of residual waste, technological or process improvements, closure, and legacy management/long-term stewardship.
Other Potential Tracks
Includes initiatives taken to meet Canada’s net-zero target, continuation of nuclear energy, and successes and failures in waste management locally and internationally