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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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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.
Plenary Session|Panel
Monday, June 14, 2021|10:00AM–12:30PM EDT
It’s been a long journey, but we are closer than ever before to deploying the next generation of advanced reactors. New, innovative designs with enhanced safety and improved economics, including small modular and micro reactors, should be under construction in only a few years. Speakers from across the new reactor community will address how we got here, what we’ve learned, and how we keep the momentum going to assure success.
General Chair
Dr. Thomas ZachariaOak Ridge National LaboratoryDirector
ANS President
Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar, PhDANS President 2020-2021
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Craig H. PiercyANS Executive Director/CEO
SPEAKERS
Maria KorsnickNuclear Energy InstitutePresident and Chief Executive Officer
Chris LevesqueTerraPowerPresident and Chief Executive Officer
J. Clay SellX-energyChief Executive Officer
Dr. Rita BaranwalElectric Power Research InstituteVice President and Chief Nuclear Officer
Honorable Christopher T. HansonU.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionChairman
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