For your general information, you will find attached below the preliminary programme of the 1998 Frederic Joliot Summer School in Reactor Physics (scheduled for August, 17-26, 1998) at CEA-Cadarache, France.

The official FJSS announcement leaftlets will be soon available and distributed (in February).

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you need any additional information.

FJSS Scientific Secretary
Reactor Physics Laboratory (SPRC/LEPh), BT 230
CEA - Centre de Cadarache, F-13108 St Paul-Lez-Durance
Phone: +33 (0) 4 42 25 44 06; Fax : +33 (0) 4 42 25 70 09;
Email:storrer@baobab.cad.cea.fr

General outline of the FJSS'98 (preliminary) Programme:

Modern Cell/Lattice Codes (4 hours)

Monte Carlo Methods (6 hours), divided into two parts:

Monte Carlo Methods: Overview and Recent Advances

Perturbation Calculation by Monte Carlo Methods

Back-end of the Fuel Cycle: (9 hours)

Issues and Strategies

A Global Physics Approach to Transmutation of Radioactive Nuclei

Innovative Nuclear Fuels

The Hydrochemical ("wet") separation processes

Innovative Reactor Designs (8 hours):

Physics of Lead-Cooled Reactors

Physics of Super-Critical Water Cooled Reactors

Physics of Gas-Cooled Reactors

Accelerator-Based Neutron Sources and Experiments (6 hours):

Validation of Neutronic Methods Applied to the Analysis of Fast Subcritical Systems

The SINQ Facility at PSI (Physics issues and implications)

Development of a new code system devoted to the physics of Accelerator-Driven Systems

and as a special event: seminar by C. Rubbia on the concept of Energy Amplifier

Criticality-Safety: Issues, Physics and Experiments (5 hours):

General Overview

Burn-up Credit: Integral Experiment in Mock-up Facility