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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.
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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