Plenary I: Current Space Programs -- ANS / Conferences / Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2024) / Technical Sessions

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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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Moderator

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Amanda Robertson

Program Director
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Speakers

Carl E. Sandifer II

Manager, Radioisotope Power Systems Program
NASA Glenn Research Center

Dayna Ise

Director, Mars Campaign Office, Moon2Mars Program NASA HQ

Craig H. Piercy

Executive Director and
Chief Executive Officer American Nuclear Society

Sebastian Corbisiero

Program Director
INL, Nuclear Science & Technology Directorate

Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion is beneficial because of the efficient energy that can be produced from small amounts of fuel. Both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are planning exciting new missions that will be discussed on the opening day of the Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space conference. Join us to the learn the latest news and future plans for these missions.

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