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The International Information Center for Multiphase Flow

NEWSLETTER
No. 55, September 2021
The Japanese Society for Multiphase FlowThe 28th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering
Vertual Conference Aug 4-6, 2021
by Tetsuaki TAKEDAThe 28th International Conference on Nuclear
Engineering (ICONE28) was held virtually on August
4 - 6, 2021. This conference is a global event for
professionals who want to stay current on newtechnology and industry trends and developments innuclear technology. The focus of ICONE is on thetechnical state-of-the-art and the current status of
nuclear power around the world. American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Japanese Societyof Mechanical Engineers (JSME), and the Chinese
Nuclear Society (CNS) were jointly organizing the
ICONE28 in 2021 virtually and online, a follow-up to
the successful meetings held in Tokyo (1991), San
Francisco (1993), Kyoto (1995), New Orleans (1996),
Nice (1997), San Diego (1998), Tokyo (1999),
Baltimore (2000), Nice (2001), Washington (2002),
Tokyo (2003), Washington (2004), Beijing (2005),
Miami (2006), Nagoya (2007), Orlando (2008),
Brussels (2009), Xi'an (2010), Osaka (2011),

Anaheim (2012), Chengdu (2013), Prague (2014),
Makuhari (2015), Charlotte (2016), Shanghai (2017),
London (2018), and Tsukuba (2019). In last year, theASME’s Nuclear Engineering Conference powered
by ICONE was held virtually and online due to therapid expansion of COVID-19.
The keynote theme "Nuclear Energy the Future
Zero Carbon Power" was set for confirming the roles
and responsibilities of nuclear energy users to realize
a low-carbon society. For the convenience ofparticipants from different time zones around theworld, the event was a combination of live
discussions, on-demand pre-recorded video viewing
and chat style questions and answers. We have madeit possible to watch presentation videos and exchange
opinions even after the conference to improve thebenefits of participants by maintaining the built
platform.

To Join ICeM:
Everybody, who is interested in Multiphase flow, is welcome to join ICeM. Please contact one of the following
board members to register in ICeM member.
Members (Editor):
Prof. Hiroyuki Takahira (Chairperson)

Prof. Yoshihiko Oishi

Prof. Takuya Tsuji

Osaka Prefecture University
E-mail:takahira@me.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Muroran Institute of Technology
E-mail:oishi@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp

Osaka University
E-mail:tak@mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Mr. Yugo Asai
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
E-mail:Asai.Yugo@dp.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp

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The keynote session, “Making a Carbon-Free
Future Possible” by Ms. Marie Blanc (Senior Vice
President, EMEA, Westinghouse Electric Company
LLC) was presented live. We have three plenary
sessions, “Advanced Reactors”, “Climate Change”,
and “Operating Plant Issues and Experience”. The“Advanced Reactors Plenary” by Ms. Kathryn Hyam
(Director Nuclear C&S, ASME), Dr. Zheng
Mingguang (SPIC), and Dr. Hiroyuki Oigawa(Executive Director, JAEA) were lectured live andalso on video. The “Climate Change Plenary” by Mr.
Andy Miller (Associate Director for Climate at US
EPA), Mr. Rui Shu (CNPRI), and Ms. Eri Nakatani(Acting Director, Agency for Natural Resources andEnergy, METI) were lectured live and also on video.
The “Operating Plant Issues and Experience Plenary”
by Mr. Richard Easterling (Sr. VP, Westinghouse
Engineered Systems & Solutions), Mr. Fu Li(Tsinghua University), and Dr. Koji Okamoto(Professor, The University of Tokyo) were lectured
live and also on video.
The panel sessions were held on nine themes asshown in Table1.

Technology. The session showed the progress of
decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Plant, technology development, research
projects for that purpose, and support for Fukushimareconstruction activities, such as cut off the stack,spent fuel removal and robotics technology. We got
many comments from participants all over the world,which indicated a high level of interest in this issue.
More than 420 people participated in theconference from 20 different countries and regions.
The technical paper publication (including 11
presentations only) were classified into 14 tracks
including student sessions, and discussions andinformation exchanges were conducted by
pre-recorded videos and chat style questions andanswers. The session topics and the corresponding
number of papers are listed in Table 2. Many research
related multi-phase flow were presented, especiallyon tracks 7, 8 and 9.
Table 2 Session topics and number of papers
Track Title
Paper
Operating
Plant
Challenges,
8
Successes, and Lessons Learnt
2
Nuclear Plant Engineering
35
3Advanced Reactors and Fusion
94
Small Modular and Micro-Reactors
17
Technologies and Applications
5
Nuclear Fuels, Research, and Fuel
19
Cycle
6
Nuclear Codes & Standards
5
7
Thermal-Hydraulics
45
8Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)20
9
Verification and Validation
10
10 Advanced Methods of Manufacturing
3
for Nuclear Reactors and Components
11 Decontamination, Decommissioning,
16
and Radioactive Waste Management
12 Beyond Design Basis and Nuclear
37
Safety13 Risk Informed Management and
11
Regulation
14 Student Paper Competition
97
Total
332

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Table 1 Panel sessions and attendee
Panel Session Theme
AttendeeAdvanced Fuel Development
67
Advanced Manufacturing93
Micro & Small Modular Reactors/
93
Advanced Nuclear System
Space and Other Applications of Nuclear
52
EnergyAP1000 Plant Experience56
Severe Accidents - Mitigation, Planning,
53
Management
Fukushima Panel - 10 years Later
86
Climate Change and Emission Reduction
39
Women In Nuclear Engineering
76
Especially, JSME contributed to the panelsessions which are “Advanced Fuel Development”,“Advanced Manufacturing”, “Micro & Small
Modular Reactors/ Advanced Nuclear System”,“Severe Accidents - Mitigation, Planning,
Management”, and “Climate Change and Emission
Reduction”. In addition to that, the panel session,“Fukushima Panel - 10 years Later”, was organized
Tadashi Narabayashi, professor of Tokyo Institute ofTraining engineers and the researchers who will
ensure the future of mechanical engineering is an
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urgent challenge, and the JSME is examining andimplementing measures to improve the education of
the next generation. In nuclear engineering, it willbe essential to train personnel with a high level ofskills, to develop the more advanced nuclear reactorsof the future. These will incorporate speedy andimproved safety measures in view of the tightening
regulations. Meanwhile, it will be necessary tosmoothly proceed with decommissioning theincreasing number of nuclear reactors which will
come to the end of their operational life in the near
future. For young engineers and researchers, it ishighly stimulating to engage in debates with theirpeers from other countries, in order to gather
first-hand information at this kind of international
conference. This conference focused on the student
sessions, and created ways to train young engineers
and researchers from a comprehensive point of view,
with competitions and event management by thestudents. Through the ICONE student program, theconference fosters the development of future nuclear
professionals.
The ICONE is a very important scientificconference to share the latest research developmentsin the field of nuclear engineering within thespecialists in the nuclear and power engineering areasof industry, academia, and government. It is believedthat this ICONE continues to contribute to theenhanced safety of nuclear power and to further
development of nuclear engineering as a top world
nuclear engineering conference. This conference wasa forum for meaningful discussions and informationexchange for participants from all over the world.
The ICONE29 will be held on August 8–12, 2022,
in Shenzhen, China. The conference theme is“Nuclear Energy Innovation Powering a Carbon
Neutral Future”. We hope that the next conference
will be successful with more participants. We are
waiting for your joining us.

Tetsuaki TAKEDA
Conference and Organizing Co-Chair of ICONE28
Professor, University of Yamanashi
E-mail: ttakeda@yamanashi.ac.jp

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Future Meetings
Following list includes conference name, place, date and contact information.
https://istp32.scimeeting.cn/en/web/index/

14th International Conference on ThermalEngineering: Theory and Applications
Kuwait City, Kwait, October 26 - 28, 2021
https://www.ictea.ca/

Japan-U.S. Seminar on Two-Phase Flow Dynamics
Michigan, USA, May 8 – 11, 2022
Chair: S. Ceccio (University of Michigan)
https://usjapanseminar.engin.umich.edu/

2021 International Congress on Advances in
Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP2021)
Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 20 - 24, 2021
Chair: Y. Addad (Khalif University)
https://www.ans.org/meetings/view-368/

13th International Topical Meeting on Reactor
Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation, and Safety(NUTHOS-13)
Taichung, Taiwan, September 4-9, 2022
Chair: M. Lee (National Tsing Hua University)
https://www.ans.org/meetings/view-348/

74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid
Dynamics
Phoenix, United States, November 21 - 23, 2021
http://www.aps.org/meetings/index.cfm

The 11th International Conference on Multiphase
Flow (ICMF 2023)
Kobe, Japan, April 2 – 7, 2023
Chair: Y. Murai (Hokkaido University)
http://www.jsmf.gr.jp/icmf2022/

The First Symposium on Carbon Ultimate
Utilization
Technologies
fortheGlobalEnvironment (CUUTE-1)
Nara, Japan, Decemnber 14 - 17, 2021
Chair: Y. Kato (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
http://web.apollon.nta.co.jp/CUUTE-1/

EuropeanConferenceon
Thermophysical
Properties (ECTP 2023)
Venice, Italy, 2023
Chair: A. Muscio (AIPT / Univ. Modena e Reggio
Emilia)http://www.ectp2020.eu/

5th Thermal and Fluids Engineering Conference(TFEC 2021)
New Orleans, LA, United States, 2021
Chair: T. Wang (University of New Orleans), M.W.
Plesniak (The George Washington University)
https://www.astfe.org/tfec2020/

26th International Conference
Thermodynamics (ICCT-2023)
Osaka, Japan, 2023---------- 2022 and beyond, not yet determined ---------

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Chemical

13th International Conference on ThermalEngineering: Theory and Applications
Baku, Azerbaijan, Postponed
Chair: Y. Abdullayev (Baku Engineering University),
M.Z. Saghir (Ryerson University)
https://www.ictea.ca/

19th Internatinal Meeting on Nuclear Reactor
Thremal Hydraulics (NURETH-19)
Brussels, Belgium, March 6 – 11, 2022
Chair: H.A. Abderrahim (SCK, CEN), J-P, Chabard(EDF), X. Sun (University of Michigan)
https://www.ans.org/meetings/view-334/

Mathematical Advances in Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics
Oberwolfach, Germany
https://www.mfo.de/www/schedule/2020/all

The 32th International Symposium on Transport
Phenomena (ISTP32)
Tianjin, China, March 19-21, 2022
Chair: Y. Utaka (Tianjin Unversity)
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Particle growth in turbulence
Stockholm, Sweden
Chair: A. Brandenburg (Nordita)
Chair: B. Mehlig (University of Gothenburg)https://www.nordita.org/events/particles2020/

The 7th International Conference on Micro andNano Flows (MNF2020)
London, The United Kingdom
Chair: T.G. Karayiannis (Brunel University London)
https://www.micronanoflows.com/mnf2020

Executive Division of The Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (2021)
President
Vice Presidents

H. Soyama (Tohoku University)
S. Takagi (The University of Tokyo)
T. Ishii (JFE Techno-Research Corporation)
Y. Murai (Hokkaido University)

Chair of Informatics Division
H. Takahira (Osaka Prefecture University)
Chair of Planning Division
T. Wakimoto (Osaka City University)
Chair of International Intercourse Division
Y. Murai (Hokkaido University)
Chair of General Affairs Division
Y. Iga (Tohoku University)
Executive Office of JSMF
Academic Publication & Printings Co.
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Corresponding Members
AUSTRALIA
Hubert Chanson
Jiyuan Tu
Aibing Yu
AUSTRIAStefan Pirker
Alfredo Soldati
BRAZIL
Gherhardt Ribatski
Oscar M. H. Rodriguez
CANADA
Jovica Riznic
CHINA
Xu Cheng
Liejin Guo
Jinghai Li
Lixing Zhou
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiři Drahoš
EGYPT
M. M. Awad
FRANCE
Alain Cartellier
Catherine Colin
Michel Lance
Jacques Magnaudet
Olivier Simonin
Anne Tanière
Stéphane Zaleski
GERMANY
Dirk Lucas
Michael Schlüter
Martin Sommerfeld
Peter StephanMarkus Uhlmann
GREECE
Vasilis Bontozoglou
INDIA
Gargi Das
ISRAEL
Neima Brauner
Yehuda Taitel
ITALY
Gian Piero Celata
Paolo di Marco
Cristian Marchioli

KOREA
Moo Hwan Kim
Sang Yong Lee
Chul-Hwa SongNETHERLAND
J.A.M. (Hans) Kuipers

University of Queensland
RMIT University
University of New South Wales
Johannes Kepler University
TU WienRobert Mudde
NORWAY
Ole Nydal
RUSSIA
Sergey V. Alekseenko
SPAIN
Carlos Martinez-Bazan
SWEDEN
Henryk Anglart
SWITZERLAND
Horst-Michael Prasser
John R. Thome
TAIWAN
Chih-Chen Chen
TURKEYCan Fuat Delale
UK
Panagiota Angeli
Tassos G. Karayiannis
Omar K. MatarMike Reeks
Jos Derksen
USA
Steven L. Ceccio
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
Vijay K. Dhir

Universidade de São Paulo
Universidade de São Paulo
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tsinghua University
Academy of Science of the Czech
Republic
Mansoura University
LEGI,
CNRS and University Grenoble Alpes
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRS
École Centrale de Lyon
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRS
IMFT, University of Toulouse, CNRSLEMTA, Nancy University
University Pierre et Marie Curie

KINS
KAIST
KAERI
Eindhoven University ofTechnology
Delft University of Technology
NTNU
Novosibirsk State University
University of Jaén
Royal Institute of Technology
ETH ZürichEPFL
National Tsing Hua University
Isik University
University College London
Brunel University
Imperial College London
Newcastle University
University of Aberdeen

University of Michigan
University of Florida
University of California, Los
Angeles
Stanford University
John K. Eaton
Iowa State University
Rodney O. Fox
Illinois Institute of Technology
Dimitri Gidaspow
Texas A & M University
Yassin A. Hassan
Purdue University
Takashi Hibiki
California Institute of Technology
Melany Hunt
Rochester Institute of Technology
Satish Kandlikar
City College of Newyork
Masahiro Kawaji
University of Maryland
Jungho Kim
University of Minnesota
Ellen K. Longmire
Efstathios E. (Stathis) Michaelides
Texas Christian University
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteMichael Podowski
Gretar Tryggvason
Johns Hopkins University

HZDR
TU Hamburg-Harburg
Otto von Guericke Universität
Magdeburg
Darmstadt University of Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Thessaly
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
ENEA
University of Pisa
Universita di Udine

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