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The main aims of this Forum are to train and to encourage new leaders of the European nuclear sector and to create a platform for career development and networking among the young people.

For these reasons, the technical program of the Forum will have a great number of different activities including plenary sessions, technical visits, debates and posters from the young attendants. The Technical Programme is as follows:

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Opening Ceremony.

Chair: Luis Echavarri (Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)

• Cordoba City: Córdoba city council representative t.b.c
  
• Cordoba University: José Manuel Roldán Nogueras (Córdoba University Rector)
• European Nuclear Society: David Bonser (European Nuclear Society Chair)
• Spanish Nuclear Society: José Emeterio Gutiérrez (Spanish Nuclear Society Chair)

Plenary Session 1: The Role of the different stakeholders in the deployment of Nuclear Energy in Europe.

Key People in the European Nuclear Sector will give their views on the most relevant questions referring to the deployment of nuclear energy in Europe.

Chair: Luis Echavarri (Director-General, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)

• Why nuclear now?: Ana de Palacio (Areva Senior Executive Vice-President, International & Marketing)
• Who & what for?: Alejo Vidal-Quadras (European Parliement Vice-president)
• What if not?: Madiba Saidy (Department of Nuclear Energy International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA)
• What to do to go nuclear?: Jack Allen (Senior Vice President. Operational Excellence. Westinghouse)
  

Plenary Session 2: The drivers of nuclear energy acceptance.

Key People in the European Nuclear Sector and Political and European Institutions will give their views on the most significant aspects of nuclear energy acceptance.

• Nuclear Safety and public acceptance: Juhani Hyvärinen (Executive Vice-president, Fennovoima)
• Radioactive Waste and public acceptance: Torsten Eng (Manager International Cooperation SKB, Swedish Nuclear and Fuel Waste Management Company)
• Nuclear politics and public acceptance: Berta Picamal (Institutional Affaire Manager, FORATOM)
  
• Transparency and public acceptance: Gaston Meskens (Belgium Nuclear Research Centre SCK-CEN)
• The role of the young generation in public acceptance: José Luis Pérez (Spanish Young Generation Chairman)

Technical Visit: El Cabril.

We will visit the Spanish Low and Intermediate Level Waste Disposal Facility, El Cabril. Since 1992, Spain has disposed of low-level radioactive wastes in concrete-lined structures at the near-surface. El Cabril unique disposal facility is located in the vicinity of Cordoba.

Plenary Session 3: Getting stronger: Crucial lessons.

It will consist on lessons, that have been chosen as the most important for young professionals, given by the best experts:

Chair: Pieter Kleerebezem (Product Line Engineer, Enrichment Technology Company, and Dutch Young Generation General Chair)

• Life extension and its economic importance: José Antonio Delgado (Electric Power Research Institute EPRI, Nuclear Executive for the South of Europe)
• New designs and developments: Franck Carre (Deputy Director for Nuclear Development and Innovation, Nuclear Energy Division, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique - France )
• How to manage a nuclear project: William Ranval (EDF - UK EPR Project, Design Reference & Safety Case)
  
• Economic factors of nuclear energy and its development: Petr Stulc (Head of Strategy, CEZ, and CEZ Eurelectric representative)
  

Plenary Session 4: Debate. Ethics and Physics of the linear hypothesis.

This session will consist on a debate about the diverse consequences of the linear no-threshold hypothesis. This hypothesis, which is used as a reference for developing legal standards, presupposes that the probability of potential effects caused by ionizing radiation is linear within all the range of low dose levels. Thus this hypothesis asserts that there is no threshold of exposure below which the response ceases to be linear with the dose and stands in contrast to theories in which, below a certain level of dose, radiation exposure is harmless or even positive.

Chair: Pio Carmena (Spanish Radioprotection National Society Chair)

• Physical foundations: Francisco Fernández, (Spanish Nuclear Safety Council, Commissioner)
  
• Social and Political consequences: Professor Agustín Alonso (professor emeritus)
• Regulatory consequences: John Cooper (ICRP Committee 4 on “Application of the Commission’s Recommendations”, Vice-President)
• Ethics of the linear hypothesis: Professor G.J.Köteles (former director of the Hungary National Research Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene).