T83 Disposal of Radioactive Waste: Promise, Progress, Pitfalls, and Path Forward

Sunday, 27 October 2013
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room 303

Presentations

• 1:15 PM
  GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL: FINNISH PERSPECTIVE
  Ismo S. Aaltonen, Posiva Oy, Eurajoki, N/A
  221910 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY SITING IN THE U.S.:GEOSCIENCE, GEO-POLICY, AND LESSONS LEARNED FROM PREVIOUS REPOSITORY SITING EXPERIENCE
  Kenneth J. Skipper, Water Mission Area/Office of Groundwater, Lakewood, CO
  232302 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  EVALUATION OF GEOLOGIC OPTIONS FOR DISPOSAL OF HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE USING A GIS DATABASE
  Frank Perry, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Patrick Dobson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA and Richard E. Kelley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  231430 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  THE HYDROGEOLOGY OF SHALES AND THEIR EMERGING ROLE AS HOSTS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE
  C.E. Neuzil, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  229658 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  REFLECTIONS ON YUCCA MOUNTAIN: WHAT WERE THE KEY TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ISSUES?
  R.C. Ewing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  224735 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  GEOLOGY AND SOCIETY:  THE ROLE AND LIMITATIONS OF GEOLOGY IN EPA SAFETY STANDARDS FOR DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL
  Elizabeth Forinash, Radiation Protection Division, Washington, DC and R. Thomas Peake, Washington, DC and Daniel Schultheisz, Radiation Protection Division, Washington, DC
  230851 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT AND HUMAN INTRUSION
  R. Thomas Peake, Washington, DC
  225417 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  HYDROUS MINERAL PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES
  Florie A. Caporuscio, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Michael C. Cheshire, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM and Hakim Boukhalfa, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  232588 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  PREPARING FOR POTENTIAL CHANGES IN NATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL POLICY:  APPROACHES BY THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION STAFF
  Jin-Ping Gwo, Washington, DC and Christopher Markley, Washington, DC and Randall Fedors, Washington, DC and Tae Ahn, Washington, DC and Keith Compton, Washington, DC and James Rubenstone, Washington, DC and Jack Guttmann, Washington, DC
  226260 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION'S GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL PROGRAM
  David Pickett, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Chandrika Manepally, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Pavan Shukla, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Xihua He, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Amitava Ghosh, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Stuart Stothoff, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Osvaldo Pensado, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
  227208 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  DEEP BOREHOLE DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL AND HIGH-LEVEL WASTE
  Bret Leslie, Arlington, VA and Mary Lou Zoback, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  222386 (Technical Sessions)