Abstract and Extended Abstract Submission

INDICO is open for abstract submissions until 17 October 2025.

Themes and Topics

The main theme of the Conference is to bring lessons learned from past experiences to drive future advancements in nuclear installation safety, which implies covering the wide range of nuclear safety topics related to site evaluation, design safety and safety assessment, construction, manufacturing and installation, commissioning and operation, and regulation.

The proposed extended abstracts and discussions during the Conference are expected to be related to the following topics:

Topic 1. Making the most of past experience

• Effective use of safety knowledge and operating experience from early non-water-cooled reactor prototypes, test facilities, and operating nuclear installations.
• Safety lessons from first-of-a-kind reactors and recent licensing experiences for new generation reactors and SMR designs, including land-based and for maritime use.
• Learning from experience when coordinating safety, security, and safeguards in the design of new reactors.
• Learning from the non-nuclear industries.
• Safety lessons learned from complex nuclear projects (e.g., construction, supply chains, manufacturing, replacement of large components, operational readiness, HTO (human-technology-organization)).
• Experience from extensive disruptions (e.g., pandemic, grid collapse) and the impact on, and management of, nuclear safety.
• Experience learned from past life extensions for future life extensions (long-term operation) and for consideration in new designs.

Topic 2. Driving safety forward and reassessing safety concepts

• Achieving the highest level of safety that can reasonably be achieved, without unduly limiting the utilisation of the installation: judging ‘reasonable practicability’, risk acceptance criteria, reducing uncertainties, maintaining sufficient safety margins, use of the graded approach in practice.
• Evolving regulatory frameworks in adapting safety concepts to emerging technologies. Learning from the application of prescriptive / rule-based regulatory frameworks for the regulation of advanced reactor designs.
• The role of leadership in fostering a robust safety culture for the successful implementation of safety practices, and to enable future projects.
• Focusing research on innovative technologies to enable their safe deployment.
• Learning from the implementation of inherent and passive safety features.
• Severe accident phenomena and analysis in innovative reactors: identifying reasonably practicable improvements.
• The future role of human performance in ensuring safe operations of advanced nuclear installations.
• Building and maintaining human capacity and capability for new nuclear projects.
• The evolving knowledge of internal hazards, external hazards, and their combinations, and their application to the design and siting of innovative nuclear installations, including transportable nuclear power plants.
• Safety considerations of non-electrical applications of nuclear reactors.
• The role of the supply chain in ensuring safety, and vendor oversight challenges (including when using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components).
• The next generation of safety standards, codes, and guidance.

Topic 3. Using innovative technologies to enhance safety

• Considerations in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to support nuclear installation safety.
• Use of AI in the regulatory decision-making process.
• Safety aspects related to advanced manufacturing techniques in nuclear energy applications.
• Implementation of new technology in the lifecycle of nuclear installations – safety implications (e.g., innovative instrumentation and control (I&C)).
• Regulatory readiness to evaluate and license innovative technologies (including evolving safety requirements).
• Digital twins and advanced simulation techniques for safety (e.g., safety analyses, operator training).
• Advances in the use of robotics for safety, and safety implications of the use of robotics, including regulatory perspectives.
• Advanced systemic safety assessment methods.
• Use of AI to enhance operational experience feedback.
• Expectations for experimental underpinning of innovative designs and analysis techniques including use of prototypes in safety demonstration and licensing.

Topic 4. Taking international cooperation to the next level

• International organizations working together in nuclear safety.
• Opportunities and challenges in international information sharing and collaboration.
• Learning from international cooperation: enhancing regulatory collaboration and working towards harmonization of regulatory approaches.
• Learning from international cooperation: enhancing industry collaboration and working towards harmonization of industry approaches.
• Learnings from international benchmarking exercises, peer reviews, and collaborative research programmes.
• International partnerships to support embarking countries.
• Advancing multinational reactor design evaluations and international cooperation in regulatory assessment of nuclear installations design.

Internationally driven capacity and capability building: nuclear safety academies, schools and other initiatives to train the next generation of nuclear safety experts.

Submission of Abstracts

Abtracts (approximately 150 to 200 words on one printed A4 page, may contain any charts, graphs, figures and references) should give enough information on the content of the proposed paper to enable the Programme Committee to evaluate it. Anyone wishing to present at the conference must submit an abstract in electronic format using the conference’s file submission system (IAEA-INDICO), which is accessible from the conference web page (Related Resources). The abstract can be submitted through this system until 17 October 2025. Specifications for the layout will be available on IAEA-INDICO. The system for electronic submission of abstracts, IAEA-INDICO, is the sole mechanism for submission of contributed abstracts. Authors are encouraged to submit abstracts as early as possible. The IAEA will not accept submissions via email.

In addition, authors must electronically submit the following two forms to their appropriate governmental authority using the InTouch+ platform (see Section H of the Conference Announcement) for transmission to the IAEA. These forms must be received by the IAEA no later than 17 October 2025:

• Participation Form (Form A)
• Form for Submission of a Paper (Form B)

IMPORTANT: The Programme Committee will consider uploaded abstracts only if these two forms have been received by the IAEA through the established official channels (see Section?H of the conference announcement).

Acceptance of Abstracts

The Secretariat reserves the right to exclude abstracts that do not comply with its technical or scientific quality standards and that do not apply to one of the topics listed in Section C of the Conference Announcement.

Authors will be informed after 1 December 2025 as to whether their submission has been accepted, either orally or as a poster, for presentation at the conference. Accepted abstracts will also be reproduced in an unedited electronic compilation of Abstracts which will be made available to all registered participants of the conference.

Submission of Extended Abstracts

Authors of accepted abstracts will be requested to submit an extended abstract in Word format, of no more than 3 pages in length. A compilation of extended abstracts (in electronic format) will be made available to participants via the Conference App.

Extended abstracts must also be submitted through the IAEA-INDICO file submission system in Word format. Submitting the extended abstract in the indicated electronic format is mandatory. Specifications for the layout and electronic format of the contributed extended abstracts and for the preparation of posters will be made available on IAEA-INDICO.

The IAEA reserves the right to exclude extended abstracts that do not comply with its quality standards and those that do not apply to one of the topics outlined in Section C above and those that do not meet the expectations based on the information in the abstract.

The deadline for electronic submission of the extended abstracts as Word files is 6 February 2026. The IAEA will not accept extended abstracts submitted after the deadline.

The IAEA will notify authors of its completed review process of the extended abstracts after 3 April 2026. The deadline for revised extended abstracts to be submitted through IAEA-INDICO is 1 May 2026.

IMPORTANT:?The system for electronic submission of extended abstracts, IAEA-INDICO, is the sole mechanism for submission of contributed extended abstracts. Authors are encouraged to submit extended abstracts as early as possible. The IAEA will not accept submissions via email.