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Glass strategy: Hanford’s enhanced waste glass program
The mission of the Department of Energy’s Office of River Protection (ORP) is to complete the safe cleanup of waste resulting from decades of nuclear weapons development. One of the most technologically challenging responsibilities is the safe disposition of approximately 56 million gallons of radioactive waste historically stored in 177 tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington state.
ORP has a clear incentive to reduce the overall mission duration and cost. One pathway is to develop and deploy innovative technical solutions that can advance baseline flow sheets toward higher efficiency operations while reducing identified risks without compromising safety. Vitrification is the baseline process that will convert both high-level and low-level radioactive waste at Hanford into a stable glass waste form for long-term storage and disposal.
Although vitrification is a mature technology, there are key areas where technology can further reduce operational risks, advance baseline processes to maximize waste throughput, and provide the underpinning to enhance operational flexibility; all steps in reducing mission duration and cost.
Thank you to the following donors who each have contributed $5,000 or more to the American Nuclear Society throughout the years. Your invaluable support helps sustain our service to ANS members and the nuclear community.
Wayne L. Andrews, Jr.
Steven A. Arndt
Andrew S. Barritt
James W. Behrens
Edgar Berkey
Rita C. Bowser
Margaret S.Y. Chu
Joe F. Colvin
Eugene N. Cramer
Patrick F. Ervin
Vincent J. Esposito
Carl & Kathy Esposito Family
Marvin S. Fertel
Abel A. Garcia
Tsahi Gozani
Eugene S. Grecheck
Theresa Hamlin
H.M. Hashemian
David K. Hayes
Donald R. Hoffman
Ian B. Wall
Sushil C. Jain
W. Reed Johnson
Warren E. Keene
Hugh Kendrick
Andrew C. Klein
John Landis
Harry Lawroski
Michael J. Lineberry
John R. Longenecker
Gail H. Marcus
Thomas P. McLaughlin
Thomas E. Mistler
Sherry A. Mitchell
Toshio Morita
R. Don Mothena
William L. Myers
William F. Naughton
E. Gail de Planque
Edward L. Quinn
Joseph J. Ruggiero
Stephen P. Schultz
Sarita Sehgal
William T. Sha
Arkal S. Shenoy
Rachel N. Slaybaugh
Kurt M. Taylor
Roger W. Tilbrook
Beverly Ann Tyreman
Alan E. Waltar
John C. Williams
Brian N. Woolweber
Loyd A. Wright
Natalie Ann Yonker
Thank you to the following donors whose support helps further the Society’s mission to advance, foster, and spur the development and application of nuclear science, engineering, and technology to benefit society.
Adam A. Abraham
Joseph S. Armijo
Steven A. Arndt*
Carol L. Berrigan
John C. Blomgren
Gilbert J. Brown
Keith F. Bullen
Barry L. Butterfield
Diane M. Cato*
John F. Conant
Alan B. Cox
Guy P. Estes
James R. Fancher
Audeen W. Fentiman*
Charles W. Forsberg
Anthony Hechanova*
Alan S. Icenhour
R. Shane Johnson
Raymond J. Juzaitis
Michael R. Kansler
Andy and Tracy Klein, in memory of William F. Vogelsang
Eric A. Larson*
Alan E. Levin
Dr. Alan Levin
Phyllis M. Lovett
John C. Luxat
Brian E. Mays
Eric L. Meils
John A. Miller
Warren F. Miller, Jr.
Edward I. Moses
Joseph A. Naser, II
Joseph Y.R. Rashid
E. James Reinsch
Luis A. Reyes*
Laura Scheele*
Stephen P. Schultz*
Ting-Leung Sham
Charles O. Slater
Andrew O. Smetana*
Charles A. Sparrow*
Weston M. Stacey, Jr.
Rebecca L. Steinman
John G. Stevens*
Marianne C. Walck
Carl E. Weber
William Arthur Wharton, III
John C. Williams*
Brian N. Woolweber*
Jacob W. Anderson
Joseph S. Armijo*
Christina A. Back
Paul Barbour
Ann S. Bisconti*
Michael D. Bradley
Laural L. Briggs
Forrest B. Brown*
John C Browne, in honor of Peter B Lyons
John C. Browne
Michael E. Button
Ann Tyson Campbell
William R. Campbell, Jr.
Kenneth T. Canavan
Roger J. Mc Candless
Yoon I. Chang
Heather J. M. Chichester*
Jeff Combs
Frank Dennis Coon, III*
David A. Costa
Garth E. Cummings
Max M DeLong
Lawrence F. Drbal*
Paul G. Edelmann
Bryan A. Erler
Kenneth A. Ewell*
James R. Fancher*
Thomas H. Fanning*
Madeline A. Feltus*
James R. Felty
Mark D. Flaherty
John Thomas Gruenwald
Donald E. Hall
Robert J. Halstead
Paul E. Hartnett*
Joseph M. Hendrie
William R. Hollaway, Esq
James P. Holloway
Calvin M. Hopper
Jeffrey D.E. Jeffries
Timothy Johnson
Andrew C. Kadak
John E. Kelly
William E. Kennedy, Jr.*
John F. Kotek
Sama Bilbao y Leon
Max M. De Long
David Michael Lucoff
Michael L. Marler*
Greg Mason*
Frank H. McDougall
Thomas A. Mehlhorn
Joel P. Melito
Cornelius Milmoe
John A. Nakoski
Steven J. Nathan*
Kaichiro Odajima
Kaichiro Odajima*
James W. Painter
Riley Palmer
Shawn D. Pautz
Charles W. Pennington
Joseph Y.R. Rashid*
Ray A. Rothrock
Thomas L. Sanders
Don K. Schopfer
Kenneth J. Schrader*
Richard R. Schultz
Andrea Sha Hunt, in memory of Dr. William T. Sha
Thomas B. Silko*
Mike S. Singh
Sandra M. Sloan
Andrew O. Smetana
David H. Smith*
Tighe W. Smith
Edward F. Sproat, III
Russell E. Stachowski*
John G. Stevens
Donald R. Todd
Christopher M. Wiegand
David A. Wilson
Paul P. Wilson*
Ann D. Winters*
Andrew R. Wysong*
Nusret S. Aksan*
Kelsey Amundson*
George Apostolakis
Stephen M. Bajorek
Carla L. Barrett
James S. Baumstark
Curtis A. Beck
Paul E. Benneche
Sidney A. Bernsen
Frank Bevilacqua
Ann S. Bisconti
Willis W. Bixby, Jr.
Thomas H. Boyce
Neil W. Brown
Donald E. Carlson
Stylianos Chatzidakis
G. Douglas Cole
Michael Thomas Coyle
Bruce W. Crawford
Douglas C. Crawford*
Timothy M. Crook*
Thomas D. Curtis
Donna M. D'Aquila
Samuel J. Dechter
Harsh S. Desai*
Nils J. Diaz
Paul T. Dickman
Linda L. Doll
Michael A. Elliott*
Kenneth J. Engle
Joseph O. Erb
Jeffrey A. Favorite*
James A. Fici
Ronald G. Fraass
Nicholas A. Gentile
Pareez Golub
K. Brad Gooden*
Micah J. Hackett
James W. Hagan
William G. Halsey
Charles L. Heck
Robert William Hess*
Thomas J. Hickey
Greg H. Hobson*
Mary Y. Hockaday
Scott Holstad
James A. Hultz
Eric Alan Jackson
Rodney W. Johnson*
Kenneth D. Keith, Jr.
William E. Kennedy, Jr.
Dale Klein*
Jay Langhurst & Daniel Klingler
Ronald A. Knief
Dale E. Knutson*
William R. Kohlroser*
Maria G. Korsnick
Paul H. Lamberger
Jay S. Lan*
Jay Langhurst
Richard C. Lanza*
David R. Lawson*
Peter C. LeBlond
Christina Leggett
Ellen Marie Leonard
Trevor Lillywhite
Donald F. Lincoln
Robert C. Little
Eric P. Loewen
Jean-Francois Lucchini
Arland L. MacKinney
Michael M. Mann*
Greg Mason
William Michael Matejek
Steve McInnis
Natalie Zaczek McIntosh
Kliss McNeel
George E. Miller
Marc D. Miller
William A. Monti
James A. Morman
Joseph A. Murphy
Steven P. Nesbit*
Steve J. Newing*
Walter C. Nodean
David L. Norris
Hidetoshi Okada
Robert F. Penn, Jr.
Supathorn Phongikaroon*
W. David Pointer
C Christopher W. Putre
Marvin Raber*
Brett D. Rampal
Jeffrey Allen Randorf
Nancy Ranek
Nancy L. Ranek
Charles J. Richardson
Ross Christopher Robinson
James W. Rowland
James E. Rushton
Sagid Salah
Kenneth R. Schultz
William Searight
Howard C. Shaffer, III*
Thomas B. Silko
Mike S. Singh*
James L. Snelgrove
David Stahl
Michael V. Stimac
Richard B. Stout
Howell W. Stroup, Jr.
Ronald Suarez
Terence J. Sullivan
Dion J. Sunderland
Joseph W. Talnagi*
David C. Tateosian
Lawrence W. Townsend
Marcus H. Voth
Roger D. Weber
Tim D. Welch
Thomas G. Williamson
Robert J. Wolfgang
Catherine Marks Alexander
Scott Altmayer
Viorel I. Arimescu
Adolfo Baca
Sven O. Bader
Kursat B. Bekar
Frederick D. Benton
Gilbert Browne
Jason Caldwell
Andrew Campbell
Andrew C. Campbell
Indrajit Charit
Paul Cheng
Chris Jaeckel Copeland
Richard S. Denning
Fiona Desplats
Madan Dev
David C. Donovan
Norman R. Eisenmann
Mitchell T. Farmer
Michael M. Fikani
Brian C. Franke
Drew M. Glenna
Thomas Green
Andrew R. Griffith
Martin L. Grossbeck
David J. Grover
Alejandro Moreno Guzman
Roger K. Harshbarger
J'Tia Hart
Robert E. Henry
John W. Houck
Burton F. Judson
Timothy Matthew Kiefer
Brendan M. Kochunas
Walter Kohler
William R. Kohlroser
Miriam A. Kreher
Ernestine M. Kuhr
Jay S. Lan
Richard Lanza
Richard C. Lanza
David R. Lawson
Donghui Li
John B. Makar
Norman J. McCormick
John Kevin McCoy
Mark Naughton, in memory of William F. Naughton
April Nguyen
Mikko Ville Ollila
Earl M. Page
Cecil V. Parks
Charles C. Peterson
K. K. S. Pillay
Farzad Rahnema
William D. Reckley
Albert B. Reynolds
Joseph Anthony Rigatti
C. Paul Robinson
José Agustín F. Rodríguez
Clayton S. Saunders
Bill Schaab
Loren C. Schmid
Sebastian Schunert
Stephen H. Shepherd
John T. Siphers
Donald L. Smith
Alex Spector
Kevin Paul Speer
Takanori TANAKA
Garry R. Thomas
John E. Thorp
Gokul Vasudevamurthy
Thomas M. Wendeln
Michael K. Yates
Dallas M. Moser
Russell E. Stachowski
Thank you to the following donors whose contributions support the Center’s education and outreach efforts that inform, engage, and inspire audiences across the country, including educators, students and the public.
NAC International
Heather J. M. Chichester
Carol Cise
Paul D. Felsher
S. Christian Simonson, III
Anonymous
WMSymposia, Inc.
Thank you to the following donors whose contributions help provide the financial resources needed for undergraduate and graduate students to begin or continue their academic studies within a variety of nuclear fields.
Mohamed El-Genk
Mark W. Noakes
Chul-Hwa Song
Frances Marshall
Frances M. Marshall
Stephen P. Schultz, in honor of Saul Levine Memorial Scholarship Fund
Robert Joseph Zerr
ANS Thermal Hydraulics Division
Thank you to the following donors whose contributions to ANS help support the annual operations of the Society, furthering our mission and important work.
Michaele C. Brady Raap
Thank you to the following companies that have matched their employees’ contributions to ANS in support of the Society’s work.
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
Duke Energy Foundation
GE Foundation
Benevity Fund
Bright Funds
Thank you to the following donors for their lead support, honoring their commitment to ANS and to the nuclear field while helping to ensure the Society continues to advance nuclear science and technology.
William T. Sha — $20,000
With his lead Legacy Circle gift, William T. Sha continues his longstanding commitment to ANS. William joined the Society in 1964 and in 1984, he became an ANS Fellow, one of our highest honors. According to the Fellow nominating committee, William has “a distinguished record of achievement as the original thinker… of codes representing a quantum jump for advancing understanding of very complex physical processes.” Read more...
Robert D. Busch
ANS Fellow and member since 1972, started his career in the nuclear field at the Nuclear Assurance Corporation in 1971. He joined Argonne National Laboratory in 1974 and has been responsible for leadership of advanced reactor design and fuel cycle technology development activities in position of increasing responsibility including Read more...
An ANS member for nearly 60 years, Eugene Cramer founded the Emergency Communications Center for the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station.
H. L. (Lee) Dodds, in honor of Pietro F. Pasqua
Still finding time to educate college students about nuclear energy, longtime ANS member H.L. (Lee) Dodds takes pride in guiding his students onto prosperous careers. Read more...
Vincent J. Esposito, in honor of R.A. Dannels
A 50-year member of ANS, Vincent J. Esposito has served on the Society’s committees and divisions, and spent a year as the ANS Congressional Fellow. Read more...
Charles Forsberg
Kenneth G. Hukari
Hugh Kendrick, in honor of J.R. (Bob) Beyster
Longtime ANS member Hugh Kendrick impacted the nuclear field with his contributions to nuclear materials safeguards and nuclear nonproliferation, thanks to the mentor he honors with his gift, J.R. (Bob) Beyster. Read more...
Dr. Klein is a professor in the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Nuclear Society. He has been a member of the faculty at Oregon State University since 1985. Read more...
Jacob M. Kulangara
Tom and Joan Mistler, in honor of William Kimel
Joining ANS in the early 1960s, Thomas Mistler spent his career at Westinghouse Electric Company where he helped lead innovation, global expansion, government relations, and customer service. Read more...
Kevin R. O'Kula
Arvind D. Patel
Kenneth S. Petersen
Michael Z. Podowski
An ANS Fellow, Dr. Podowski's research and educational efforts have always been on promoting critical thinking to maximize scientific evidence behind any proposed new solutions in all areas of his interest. Read more...
John W. Poston, Sr.
Lifetime member John W. Poston, Sr. has been part of the ANS family for more than 40 years. Read more...
D. V. Rao
A. Edward Scherer
An honorary life member, A. Edward Scherer has been an ANS member for more than 50 years. He is a participant of the Society’s Nuclear Installations Safety and Operations & Power professional divisions.
Michael J. Wallace
Robert C. Webb
Anonymous, in honor of Gerald P. Stone
James G. Toscas
