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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
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Marriott 4|Sponsored by FCWMD|Cosponsored by ANSTD|Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley
Monday, June 12, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Kentucky|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by ANSTD|Session Chair: Eva Davidson
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Dustin G. Miller
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Panel|Marriott 1|Session Chair: Miles Van Noordennen
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Panel|Marriott 1|Session Chair: Leah Parks
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|8:00–9:45AM EDT
Marriott 3|Session Chair: Travis W. Knight
Monday, June 12, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Panel|Marriott 3|Sponsored by YMG|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Dr. Pierre-Clément (PC) Simon
Marriott 3|Session Chair: Lisa M. Marshall
Tuesday, June 13, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Panel|Marriott 3|Session Chair: Sola Talabi
Panel|Marriott 4|Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley
Marriott 4|Cosponsored by ANSTD|Session Chair: Tim P. Tinsley
Panel|Marriott 4|Session Chair: Milos I. Atz
Marriott 4|Session Chair: Robert A. Joseph
Marriott 4|Session Chair: Steven P. Curtis
Marriott 4|Session Chair: Ben Cipiti
Marriott 4|Session Chair: Christina Leggett
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT
Marriott 4|Session Chair: Lauren M. Garrison
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Ahmad Al Rashdan
Marriott 10|Sponsored by MSTD|Cosponsored by HFICD|Session Chair: Cynthia A. Adkins
Marriott 9|Session Chair: Padhraic L. Mulligan
Marriott 9|Session Chair: Brenden J. Heidrich
Marriott 9|Session Chair: Edward J. Cazalas
Panel|Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Jean C. Ragusa
Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Michael Jarrett
Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Pierre-Clément Simon
Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Sandra Bogetic
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Simon M. Pimblott
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Cynthia A. Adkins
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Michael R. Tonks
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Annabelle Le Coq
Marriott 10|Cosponsored by HFICD|Session Chair: Cynthia A. Adkins
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Kenneth J. Geelhood
Marriott 10|Session Chair: Jake R. Quincey
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|3:15–5:00PM EDT
Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Tom Stockman
Panel|Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Deborah A. Hill
Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Kristan M. Wessels
Panel|Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Douglas G. Bowen
Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Walid Metwally
Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Mandy Bowles Tomaszewski
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:00–10:40AM EDT
Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Walid A. Metwally
Wednesday, June 14, 2023|10:40–11:20AM EDT
Panel|Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Theresa E. Cutler
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Panel|Marriott 9|Session Chair: Aaron S. Epiney
Panel|Tennessee|Session Chair: Hitesh Bindra
Panel|Kentucky|Sponsored by RPD|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chair: Michael G. Anness
Panel|Tennessee|Session Chair: John H. Jackson
Tennessee|Session Chair: Temi Adeyeye
Panel|Florida/Illinois|Session Chair: Eva E. Davidson
Tennessee|Session Chair: Timothy M. Crook
Marriott 3|Session Chair: Melanie Joseph
Tennessee|Session Chair: Hitesh Bindra
Tennessee|Session Chair: Nicolas Stauff
Panel|Kentucky|Cosponsored by OPD|Session Chair: Michael G. Anness
Kentucky|Cosponsored by ANSTD|Session Chair: Eva Davidson
Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Carlo Fiorina
Panel|Kentucky|Session Chair: Dimitrios Cokinos
Kentucky|Session Chair: Scott P. Palmtag
Panel|California|Session Chair: Syed Bahauddin Alam
Kentucky|Session Chair: Benjamin R. Betzler
Kentucky|Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Panel|Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Syed Bahauddin Alam
Panel|Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Yasir Arafat
Kentucky|Session Chair: Jason Hou
Marriott 9|Session Chair: Jason Hou
Michigan/Texas|Session Chair: Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Sunil S. Chirayath
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Ray Klann
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Andrew Rosenstrom
Marriott 1|Session Chair: Jeffrey A. Favorite
California|Session Chair: Adam J. Carroll
Panel|Marriott 9|Session Chair: Young Soo Park
Panel|Marriott 2|Session Chair: Lander Ibarra
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Dillon R. Shaver
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Hitesh Bindra
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Donna Guillen
Marriott 2|Session Chair: In Cheol Bang
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Jun Liao
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Subash Sharma
Marriott 2|Session Chair: Trevor Kent Howard
Panel|California|Session Chair: Julianne McCallum
Panel|Marriott 3|Cosponsored by ETWDD|Session Chair: Dr. Pierre-Clément (PC) Simon
Panel|Marriott 3|Session Chair: Patrick J. Snouffer
Panel|Marriott 3|Session Chair: John Mobley IV
