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Oct. 4-8th 2027 | Nîmes (France)
5th Summer School on nuclear and industrial glasses for energy transition
Organized by CEA/DES/ISEC/DPME
Local organizing committee: Sophie Schuller, Kahina Hamadache, Frederic Angeli, Stephane Gin, Jean-Marc Delaye, Isabelle Ribet
Sumglass
SumGlass 2027 aims to bring together the research and industrial communities of the glass sector around these themes. This summer school will allow to share the problems and methodologies developed on the vitrification of nuclear waste and on the manufacture and properties of industrial glass. New advances in terms of modeling and simulation developed on spatial and temporal scales will be discussed, both to follow the development of glass in furnaces and to understand the behavior of glass during its life cycle.
The R&D issues raised by the nuclear industry have made it possible to meet major challenges, particularly in the field of radioactive waste vitrification. The unique know-how developed over more than 60 years in various nuclear waste vitrification technologies and in the formulation, physical and chemical properties and long-term behavior of glasses opens up a major field of innovation to achieve the carbon neutrality objectives (wind, solar, hydraulic, hydrogen, nuclear) for the energy transition.
Whether in the nuclear sector or in the glass industry, R&D is focused on optimizing the quality of glass products, in adequacy with their behavior to their conditions of use, while minimizing the environmental impact over their entire life cycle. It is crucial to better understand their properties, but also to be able to minimize waste and the use of primary resources without degrading product properties. Numerous projects are being carried out, both experimental and modeling, in a very wide range of applications (tableware, flat glass, glass for bottles, packaging, nuclear glass, glass fibers for reinforcement or insulation). Modeling and simulation approaches are in full expansion to address the various issues.