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2024 ANS Annual Conference
June 16–19, 2024
Las Vegas, NV|Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
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WIPP improves utility shaft safety, begins infrastructure project
Harrison Western Shaft Sinkers (HWSS), the company drilling a new utility shaft at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, has retained a safety culture expert following a near-miss accident in the shaft late last year. The safety expert will conduct monthly facilitated discussions with crews working on the shaft to reinforce expectations for identifying concerns regarding unsafe circumstances, according to a recent report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).
Technical Session|Sponsored by FCWMD
Wednesday, June 15, 2022|10:15AM–12:00PM PDT|Santa Monica
Session Chair:
Tejaswini Vaidya (Univ. Idaho)
Alternate Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton/ARPA-E)
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Treatment and conditioning are used to convert radioactive, mixed, and hazardous wastes from various waste processing or used nuclear fuel reprocessing activities into inert waste forms for transportation, storage, and final disposal. The treated and conditioned wastes must ultimately be disposed of in a suitable disposal facility. Multiple disposal options are currently being considered for the most highly radioactive wastes, including geologic repositories and deep borehole disposal. This session discusses advances made in waste form development, reprocessing facility off-gas capture technologies, and disposal facility design and optimization.
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Iron Phosphate Glass Waste Forms to Immobilize Dehalogenated Salt Wastes
Matthew Page (Clemson Univ.), Adam Gootgeld (Clemson Univ.), Ming Tang (Clemson Univ.)
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Advanced Long-Term Environmental Monitoring Systems (ALTEMIS) for Consent-Based Siting of Nuclear Facilities
Haruko Wainwright (MIT), Carol Eddy-Dilek (SRNL)
Adsorption of Radioactive Iodine Using Aged Nanocarbon-Coated Ceramic Substrate
Chaithanya Balumuru (Univ. Idaho), Krishnan Raja (Univ. Idaho), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. Idaho)
Features, Events, and Processes Prioritization for Deep Borehole Disposal Concepts in Crystalline Rock and Shale
Ethan Bates (Deep Isolation), John Midgley (Deep Isolation)
Effects of Storage on Methyl Iodide Adsorption by Mordenite Sorbent
Heinrik Goettsche (Univ. Idaho), Raja Krishnan (Univ. Idaho), Vivek Utgikar (Univ. Idaho)
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