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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.
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8:00AM–12:00PM EDT
Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub Room 603
Session Organizers: Carolina Dutra, David Reger
9:00AM–12:00PM EDT
Pattee and Paterno Library Room W003
Session Organizer: Aamer Bashir
1:00–4:00PM EDT
Engineering Services Building Room 122
Session Organizer: Chris Balbier
Session Organizer: Luiz Aldeia Machado
1:30–4:00PM EDT
Engineering Design and Innovation Building Room 326
Session Organizers: Carolina Dutra, Luiz Aldeia Machado
3:00–4:30PM EDT
Thomas Building Room 104
Session Organizers: Zach Van Horn, Jessi Altiero
