Name: MLZ Conference 2025: Neutrons for Fusion and Nuclear Applications
Start: 2025-07-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-07-31T14:15:00+02:00
Location: Munich

MLZ Conference 2025: Neutrons for Fusion and Nuclear Applications

from Monday, 28 July 2025 (09:00) to Thursday, 31 July 2025 (14:15)

Monday, 28 July 2025

11:45 Welcome

11:45 - 12:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

12:00 Lunch

12:00 - 13:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
13:00 Session 1
13:00 - 14:40
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

13:00 Current status and challenges of the development of plasma-facing components - Rudolf Neu (MPI for Plasma Physics)

13:40 X-ray and neutron diffraction for characterizing lattice defects in irradiated structural materials - Tamas Ungar (The University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary)

14:00 Review of the tungsten thermal conductivity in a fusion power reactor - Sören Möller (FZJ)

14:20 Tritium Breeding Testing with an Intense DT Neutron Source - Lucas Jacobson (SHINE Technologies)
14:40 Coffee
Coffee
14:40 - 15:10
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
15:10 Session 2
15:10 - 16:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

15:10 Testing Needs for the Development and Qualification of Fusion Breeding Blankets - Gianfranco Federici (EUROfusion Consortium)

15:50 Fission neutrons to support fusion research - Winfried Petry (FRM II - TUM)

16:10 Database for thermal neutron induced prompt gamma rays - Zsolt Revay (PGAA)

16:30 The use of ion beam irradiation to simulate neutron-induced displacement damage in tungsten - Mikhail Zibrov (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik)
16:50 Coffee
Coffee
16:50 - 17:10
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
17:10 Session 3
17:10 - 18:10
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

17:10 The Effect of Rhenium on Irradiation Induced Defects in W-Re Alloys Studied by Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy - Lisa-Marie Krug (MLZ / TUM)

17:30 Deuterium Desorption from Irradiated Tungsten Studied by In-situ Temperature Dependent Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy - Danny Russell (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Technische Universität München)

17:50 High-current accelerator-based neutron sources – Fusion materials and testing - Paul Zakalek (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
18:10 Dinner
Dinner
18:10 - 19:10
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Tuesday, 29 July 2025
09:00 Session 4
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

09:00 Nuclear fission and fusion power plants: Validating models - Michael Smith (The University of Manchester)

09:40 Residual stress determination in structural materials for fusion and fission reactors using neutron diffraction - Michael Hofmann

10:00 Unique capabilities of neutron imaging in analyzing structural components in fusion reactors - Tobias Neuwirth
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
10:50 Session 5
10:50 - 11:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

10:50 Neutron irradiation micro-structural effects in standard and B-alloyed EUROFER97 steel - Roberto Coppola (ENEA-Casaccia)

11:10 Advanced characterization of tungsten-steel multi materials for plasma facing components produced with additive manufacturing techniques. - Malgorzata Makowska

11:30 Effect of laser beam shaping on the crystallographic texture and residual stress distribution of 316L stainless steel manufactured using Laser Powder Bed Fusion - Weimin Gan (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

13:00 FRM II Guided Tours (via Bus Transfer)
FRM II Guided Tours (via Bus Transfer)
13:00 - 18:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
19:00 Poster Session and Beer
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

19:00 How can Sample Environment help - Alexander Weber (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

19:00 In situ high temperature sample environment @ MLZ - Manuel Suarez Anzorena (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ), Technische Universität München (TUM))

19:00 Neutron grating interferometry – an advanced neutron imaging method - Simon Sebold (MLZ)

19:00 Rotating Quantum Droplets in Low Dimensions - Kevin Hernandez (Universidad de El Salvador)

19:00 The Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument SANS-1 at MLZ - Gilles Wittmann (ADVMAT)

19:00 Neutron powder diffraction at instruments SPODI, ERWIN and FIREPOD - Markus Hoelzel

19:00 Effects of Hydrogen Loading on Lattice Defects in Nickel-Based Superalloys Studied by Positron Annihilation - Kilian Porth (Nepomuc)

19:00 Advanced characterization of high temperature structural materials for fusion reactor environments - S. Neumeier

19:00 X-Ray Diffraction as a Tool for Structure Analysis of Functional Materials including Fusion Materials - Stefan Engel (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ))

19:00 The MEDAPP instrument as test site for fast neutron radiation damage - Lucas Sommer

19:00 Chemical Analysis with Neutrons at MLZ - Christian Stieghorst (TUM / FRM II)
Wednesday, 30 July 2025
09:00 Session 6
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

09:00 Consequences of neutron irradiation of fusion plasma-facing materials and components - Christian Linsmeier (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management – Plasma Physics, Jülich, Germany)

09:40 Neutron Imaging of Nuclear Fuel Cladding Tubes - Sarah Weick (KIT)

10:00 Time-of-Flight Neutron Imaging for Material Identification and Characterization - Alexander Wolfertz (TUM FRM2)
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
10:50 Session 7
10:50 - 11:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

10:50 Neutron and X-ray Diffraction as a Tool to Study High-Temperature Materials for Fusion Applications - Massimo Fritton

11:10 Pulsed Low Energy Positron Beams for Fusion Materials - Werner Egger (Universität der Bundeswehr München)

11:30 A Scanning Positron Microscope for 3D defect mapping - Johannes Mitteneder
11:50 Lunch
Lunch
11:50 - 12:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

14:00 Excursion to Flugwerft Schleißheim (via Bus Transfer)
Excursion to Flugwerft Schleißheim (via Bus Transfer)
14:00 - 18:30
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

18:30 Conference Dinner at Schlosswirtschaft Schleißheim
Conference Dinner at Schlosswirtschaft Schleißheim
18:30 - 22:00
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Thursday, 31 July 2025
09:00 Session 8
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

09:00 Development of a Scalable Platform for Fusion Neutron Irradiation and Next Generation Nuclear Applications - Tom Wallace-Smith

09:40 Assmement of Bunker Suitability for a Fusion Neutron Source using Serpent 2 - Christopher Ehrich (Technical University of Munich)

10:00 Neutron computed tomography and liquid contrast agents for the examination of materials - Burkhard Schillinger (MLZ /FRM II, TU München)
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
10:50 Session 9
10:50 - 11:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried
Contributions

10:50 Development of non-planar, HTS, tabletop-sized-stellarator coils - E. V. Stenson (MPI for Plasma Physics)

11:10 A compact levitated dipole trap for the confinement of electron-positron pair plasma - Alexander Card (MLZ (NEPOMUC))

11:30 Fusion's Fast Neutrons: Measurement, Management and Tritium Breeding - Peter Reichel (Center for Nuclear Safety and Innovation)
11:50 Lunch
Lunch
11:50 - 12:50
Room: Schloss Fürstenried

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