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2026 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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Posiva begins drilling disposal holes at Finland’s Onkalo repository
Last week the Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva began drilling holes for final disposal at the Onkalo deep geological repository, near the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland. The company’s German-made Deposition Hole Boring Machine (DHBM) took about 10 hours to drill the first hole, with a depth of 8.4 meters and a diameter of 1.75 meters, into the 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock. This is the first deposition hole intended for an iron-copper canister containing spent nuclear fuel—though test holes have been drilled at the site since 2022.
The Onkalo repository received a favorable safety assessment from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland earlier in August.
Technical Session
Monday, September 26, 2022|1:10–3:15PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Douglas Di Julio (European Spallation Source)
Alternate Chair:
Stephane Bourganel (CEA)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Boron-Lined Proportional Counter Sensitivity Determined by Simulation
1:10–1:35PM PDT
Stephane Bourganel (CEA), Laurence Pangault-Granier (CEA), Aly Elayeb (PHOTONIS Nuclear Instrumentation)
Paper
Pulsed Radiation Monitoring Using Ionisation Chamber with Dedicated Integrated Circuit at CERN Antimatter-Facility
1:35–2:00PM PDT
Sarath Kundumattathil Mohanan (CERN), Hamza Boukabache (CERN), Vassili Cruchet (CERN), Daniel Perrin (CERN)
Presented by Stefan Roesler (CERN)
Radon Detection on a Spanish Natural Gas Well Using Electrets and Lucas Cell
2:00–2:25PM PDT
A. Noverques (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Juste (Politechnic Univ. Valencia), B. Mora (GD Energy Systems), A. Arribas (GD Energy Systems), G. Verdu (Politechnic Univ. Valencia)
Optimization of a GaN Microstructured Thermal Neutron Detector Geometry Using MCNP
2:25–2:50PM PDT
Eric Giunta (Kansas State), Micheal Pfeifer (Kansas State), Bryce Davidson (Kansas State), Sanchit Sharma (Kansas State), Keith Huddleston (Kansas State), Nathanael Simerl (Kansas State), Douglas S. McGregor (Kansas State), Walter McNeil (Kansas State), Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State)
Measurement of Response Functions of Enriched Lithium-6 CLYC Scintillator for 1.2 MeV, 5.0 MeV and 14.8 MeV Neutrons
2:50–3:15PM PDT
So Kamada (National Maritime Research Institute), Masayuki Hagiwara (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)