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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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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
Technical Session|Solution and Gas Phase Chemistry
Thursday, September 12, 2024|11:00AM–12:30PM EDT|Colonial Ballroom
Session Chair:
Bradley Childs
Alternate Chair:
Kiel S. Holliday
Session Organizer:
Jason R. Jeffries
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Aqueous Plutonium Reprocessing at LLNL
11:00–11:30AM EDT
Maryline G. Ferrier (Kerlin) (LLNL), Helen Deaguero (LLNL), Kiel S. Holliday (LLNL), Bryan D. Smith (LLNL), Brandon Smiddy (LLNL), Scott A. Simpson (LLNL), Silvi A. Di Pietro (LLNL), Emma R. Tardiff (LLNL), Tsuyoshi A. Kohlgruber (LLNL), David J. Roberts (LLNL), Bradley C. Childs (LLNL), Lawrence E. Banks (LLNL)
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Solubility, Speciation and Thermodynamics of PuCO3OH(cr) in Carbonate Containing Solutions
11:30–11:50AM EDT
P. Müller (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), D. Fellhauer (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), D. Schild (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), M. Altmaier (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), X. Gaona (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology), H. Geckeis (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)
Historical Ion Exchange Processes and Future Prospects at the Savannah River Site
11:50AM–12:10PM EDT
Rebecca Carter (SRNL), Matthew Mills (SRNL), Sasha Mills (SRNL), Philip Almond (SRNL)
Synthesis of Uranium and Plutonium Oxides by Peroxide Precipitation and Hydrothermal Treatment
12:10–12:30PM EDT
L. Muller (CEA), P. Estevenon (CEA), C. Tamain (CEA), N. Dacheux (Univ. Montpellier), N. Clavier (CNRS)
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