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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.
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Chief Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jesson Hutchinson is the Chief Scientist of the National Criticality Experiments Research Center (NCERC) and is an expert in critical and subcritical experiments. He is a Crew Chief (equivalent to a Senior Reactor Operator) for three of the critical assembly machines and is a Crew Member (equivalent to a Reactor Operator) of the fourth machine at NCERC. Jesson has participated in and/or lead >150 critical and >500 subcritical operations at NCERC. His focus is the design, execution, and analysis of critical and subcritical experiments. He has been a member of the ICSBEP working group since 2007. Jesson is an instructor for hands-on criticality and reactor physics training.
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