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Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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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.
September 30–October 3, 2018
Pasco, WA|Red Lion Hotel Pasco
To make hotel reservations call the Red Lion Hotel 1-800 REDLION (733-5466). You must ask to make a reservation at the PASCO RED LION. Advise them that you are with a group from 9/10/2018 through 10/3/2018. The group code AMER0934 must be applied to your reservation to obtain the group discount rate. Book by August 27, to receive the group rate of $96.00. Register for this meeting at Applicability of Radiation-Response Models to Low Dose Protection Standards
Honorary Chair:
Ludwig Feinendegen
General Chair:
Alan E. Waltar (Retired, PNNL)
Assistant General Chairs:
Wanda Munn (Senior Engineer)
Virginia Cleary-Ivanoff (Project Execution Quality Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Program Cochairses:
Antone Brooks
Ronald Kathren (Washington State University (retired))
