Fuel Performance: PIE studies/techniques, fuel behaviour (normal operating conditions and extended burnup), and station experience

Fuel Safety: Licensing issues, accident studies, fission-gas release, fuel behaviour, LOCA initiative and experimental simulation, fuel acceptance criteria, and fuel deformation and dryout

Fuel Design & Development: Modifications to fuel designs and quality assurance in fuel design and development, MOX, inert matrices, DUPIC, slightly enriched uranium (SEU), recovered uranium (RU), thoria-based fuels, SCWR fuel, and economical and societal implications of fuel cycles

Fuel Code Development: Predictive capability for thermal, mechanical, irradiation and fission-gas release behaviour under normal operating and accident conditions, and predicting aerosol behaviour

Fuel Manufacturing: Fuel manufacturer experience, advances in manufacturing & inspection technologies, blending Recycled Uranium (RU) & Depleted Uranium (RU), and fuel manufacturing issues and improvements

Fuel Management: Fuel management schemes, load following, fuel physics analysis, and specific operational problem and fuel handling

Fuel and Fuel Channel Thermalhydraulics: CHF and CCP assessment and enhancement, reactor aging, crept pressure tube and fuel simulation and testing

Spent Fuel Management: Fuel handling technology, spent fuel storage, and in-storage fuel behaviour

Advanced Code Development: Development of models that support fuel performance and safety assessments