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21–24 September 2026 | Halifax, Canada
Robert Cahn award nomination deadline: 12 December 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 27 February 2026
NuMart image competition deadline: 6 February 2026
Early registration deadline: 22 May 2026
The Nuclear Materials Conference (NuMat) was established in 2012 in partnership with the Journal of Nuclear Materials to bring together the global community working on nuclear materials science. It has since become the leading international conference for research spanning fission and fusion reactors as well as the wider nuclear fuel cycle.
Building on the success of NuMat 2024 in Singapore, which attracted more than 550 delegates from across the world, NuMat 2026 will take place in Halifax, Canada. The conference will showcase the latest advances in nuclear materials, with themes including nuclear fuels, structural materials, radiation effects, modelling and simulation, and severe accident analyses.
The program will feature eight plenary speakers, an opening plenary from the 2026 Robert Cahn Award recipient, and a special presentation from the winner of the Journal of Nuclear Materials best paper prize. Alongside these highlights, there will be five parallel technical sessions and poster sessions, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the field and plentiful opportunities for discussion and collaboration.
Track sessions
Track 1: Thermodynamics and Thermal Properties of Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Track 2: Structural and Functional Materials
Track 3: Modelling and Simulation of Nuclear Fuels
Track 4: Modelling and Simulation of Structural Materials
Track 5: Behaviour of Materials During Severe Accidents
Track 6: Radiation Damage Processes in Materials
Track 7: Characterization of Irradiated Fuels and Materials, and Techniques
Track 8: Materials for the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The Journal of Nuclear Materials publishes high quality papers in materials research for nuclear applications, primarily fission reactors, fusion reactors, and similar environments including radiation areas of charged particle accelerators. Both original research and critical review papers covering experimental, theoretical, and computational aspects of either fundamental or applied nature are welcome.
The breadth of the field is such that a wide range of processes and properties in the field of materials science and engineering is of interest to the readership, spanning atom-scale processes, microstructures, thermodynamics, mechanical properties, physical properties, and corrosion, for example.
For more information, please visit: www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-nuclear-materials.
The open-access journal Nuclear Materials and Energy is devoted to the growing field of research for material application in the production of nuclear energy. Nuclear Materials and Energy is supported scientifically by the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany.
The scientific support by the Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik also underlines its contribution to the field of research on plasma-facing materials and specifies the scientific scope of the Journal. The emphasis will be on materials employed in reactors where they are exposed to extreme environments in terms of radiation, temperature and corrosive conditions.
For more information, please visit: www.journals.elsevier.com/nuclear-materials-and-energy/.
NuMat 2024: The Nuclear Materials Conference 14–17 October 2024 | Singapore
NuMat 2022: The Nuclear Materials Conference 24–28 October 2022 | Ghent, Belgium
NuMat 2020: The Nuclear Materials Conference 26–29 October 2020 Online, live and on-demand
NuMat 2018: The Nuclear Materials Conference 14–18 October 2018 Seattle, WA, USA
NuMat 2016: The Nuclear Materials Conference 7 - 10 November 2016 Montpellier, France
NuMat 2014: The Nuclear Materials Conference 27-30 October 2014 Hilton Clearwater Beach Hotel Florida, USA
NuMat 2012: The Nuclear Materials Conference 22-25 October 2012 Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka Osaka, Japan
NuMat 2010: The Nuclear Materials Conference 4-8 October 2010 ZKM Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
There will be eight plenary speakers, plus an opening plenary from the 2026 recipient of the Robert Cahn award, and a presentation from the best paper prize recipient from the Journal of Nuclear Materials. There will be five parallel sessions including workshops and poster sessions which will cover the breadth of research within nuclear materials.
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