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Report touts lessons from era of nuclear waste negotiator
As the Department of Energy embarks on its consent-based process for siting a geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, a new report from the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA highlights relevant lessons from the federal government’s now defunct Office of the Nuclear Waste Negotiator.
Established under Title IV of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the office, an independent agency within the executive branch, was primarily active from 1990 to 1995. Its role was to engage with state and tribal governments to find an acceptable and suitable host site for a repository.
The full report, Lessons from the Nuclear Waste Negotiator Era of the 1990s for Today’s Consent-Based Siting Efforts, is now available online. Its executive summary is available here.
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, June 14, 2022|3:15–5:00PM PDT|Santa Monica
Session Chair:
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton/ARPA-E)
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This session covers research on a broad range of fuel cycle-related topics, including laser enrichment of uranium, molten salt chemistry and machine learning analyses, recycling of Zircaloy cladding, and fuel cycle analyses.
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CRISLA-3G Advanced Laser Enrichment of Uranium
Jeff Eerkens (Crisla), Cristo Liebenberg (Crisla)
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Structure Analysis of LiF-NaF-ZrF4 Molten Salts with Deep Learning Potentials
Rajni Chahal (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell), Stephen T. Lam (Univ. Massachusetts, Lowell)
Recycling of Zircaloy from Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods Using Sulfur Chloride Reagents
Breanna Vestal (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Craig Barnes (Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville), Guillermo (Bill) Daniel Del Cul (ORNL), Stephanie H. Bruffey (ORNL), Rodney Hunt (ORNL)
Solubility of Lanthanide Trichlorides in the Eutectic LiCl-KCl Molten Salt
Tejaswini Vaidya (Univ. Idaho), Haiyan Zhao (Univ. Idaho)
Using Fuel Cycle Simulators and Bayesian Inference in Nuclear Archaeology
Max Schalz (RWTH Aachen Univ.), Lewin Bormann (RWTH Aachen Univ.), Malte Göttsche (RWTH Aachen Univ.)
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