Media Invited to Attend IAEA’s First International SMR Conference, Industry Night

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will host the International Conference on Small Modular Reactors and their Applications next week for stakeholders to discuss opportunities, challenges and enabling conditions to accelerate the development and ensure safe and secure operation of SMRs.

The conference, which is the first IAEA conference on SMRs, will take place from 21 to 25 October at IAEA headquarters in Vienna. The Conference, including Industry Night, is open to the media.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi will open the conference on 21 October at 14:00 (CET), followed by a ministerial keynote from Ghana and a high-level panel with industry and regulatory executive leaders.

Over 1000 participants from 95 countries and 17 international organizations and non-governmental organizations are registered to participate in the event.

The conference is organized into 44 technical sessions under four main topics: SMR design, technology and fuel cycle; legislative and regulatory frameworks; safety, security and safeguards; and considerations to facilitate deployment of SMRs. In addition, five plenary sessions, four side events and about 100 posters will be presented. The provisional programme is available here.

Plenary sessions will be livestreamed on the IAEA website (no login required). For further virtual access to technical sessions, please register online as an observer. Recordings will be available on the "IAEA Conference and Meetings" App available on Google Play and the iTunes Store.

Please note, side events will be livestreamed through the app. Industry Night will not be livestreamed.

IAEA experts will be available for interviews. Please send your request to [email protected].

Industry Night

SMR developers will present their projects at all development stages during Industry Night, Tuesday, 22 October, 17:45 to 20:00. Organized by the IAEA and World Nuclear Association, about 20 companies will engage with participants to discuss topics related to specific designs.

Accreditation

All journalists - including those with permanent accreditation to the Vienna International Centre (VIC) - are requested to inform the IAEA Press Office of their plans to attend the conference in person. Journalists without permanent accreditation to the VIC must send copies of their passport and press ID to [email protected] by 12:00 CEST on Friday, 18 October.

We encourage those journalists who do not yet have permanent accreditation to request it at UNIS Vienna.

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