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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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WIPP: Lessons in transportation safety
As part of a future consent-based approach by the federal government to site new deep geologic repositories for nuclear waste, local communities and states that are considering hosting such facilities are sure to have many questions. Currently, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is the only example of such a repository in operation, and it offers the opportunity for state and local officials to visit and judge for themselves the risks and benefits of hosting a similar facility. But its history can also provide lessons for these officials, particularly the political process leading up to the opening of WIPP, the safety of WIPP operations and transportation of waste from generator facilities to the site, and the economic impacts the project has had on the local area of Carlsbad, as well as the rest of the state of New Mexico.
Global 2026
Director of Fuel Cycle Technology
Oklo
Dr. Christina Leggett is the Director of Fuel Cycle Technology at Oklo Inc. In this role, she oversees the team that is designing Oklo’s Fuel Recycling Facility, which will be sited in Oak Ridge, TN. Prior to working at Oklo, she was a lead engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she worked as a nuclear technology advisor for the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). In this role, she served as the lead technical advisor for the ARPA-E CURIE program, which focused on enabling the economic and secure recycling of the Nation’s existing used nuclear fuel (UNF); supported the development and implementation of several ARPA-E nuclear programs, most notably the ONWARDS and NEWTON programs focused on reducing advanced reactor and fission product waste; and provided technical oversight for approximately two dozen ARPA-E-funded nuclear fission and fusion projects. Dr. Leggett also worked as a federal program manager in the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy and as a nuclear engineer and reactor systems engineer at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California-Berkeley and is very passionate about UNF recycling coupled with advanced reactors as an integral part of a sustainable nuclear future and mentoring the next generation of nuclear professionals. She is also very active in the American Nuclear Society (ANS), having served on the ANS Board of Directors and as Chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division.
