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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2024 (PBNC)
Gary Wolski served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power program, supported the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission at Hanford in nuclear power operations and maintenance engineering, and was a contractor supporting civil nuclear power plant outages. For the last twenty-eight years, he has been with Curtiss-Wright, working in the Nuclear Division in positions of increasing levels of responsibility in Sales, Marketing and Management. Gary is currently a Vice President in Curtiss-Wright’s Nuclear Division with responsibilities to grow Curtiss-Wright’s nuclear business.
Mr. Wolski has served six charters on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) where he previously served as Chair, Vice Chair, and Subcommittee Chair twice. He currently serves as Chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI) Supplier Advisory Committee and is a past chair of NEI’s Trade Advocacy Subcommittee.
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