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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
Thursday, November 11, 2021|2:50–4:50PM EST
Session Chair:
Gabriel Georgescu (IRSN)
Alternate Chair:
Yunfei Zhao (OSU)
Session Producer:
Chase Blaeser
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A Case Study in Fault Tree Application for Target Set Selection
2:50–3:20PM EST
Rachel Christian (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Heather Detar (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Stephen Reed (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Michael Sleigh (Westinghouse Electric Co.)
Paper
A Multilayer Network Approach to Assessing the Impact of Human Performance Shaping Factors on Security for Nuclear Power Plants
3:20–3:50PM EST
Adam D. Williams (Sandia), Elizabeth S. Fleming (Sandia)
A Case for Risk-Informing Nuclear Power Plant Cyber Security
3:50–4:20PM EST
F. Gregory Hudson (Metcalfe)
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