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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Lincoln East
Session Chair:
LianGe Zheng (Berkeley Lab)
Alternate Chair:
Emily R. Stein
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AI to Guide Sorption Data Acquisition and Assimilation into Uncertainty Quantifications for the Nuclear Waste Disposal Performance Assessments
3:15–3:35PM EST
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Dauren Sarsenbayev (MIT), Fanny M. Coutelot (Clemson University), Sol-Chan Han (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Brian A. Powell (Clemson University), Liange Zheng (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Marcus Noack (LLNL), Mavrik Zavarin (LLNL)
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Archaeological and Natural Glass Analogues for Nuclear Waste Glasses: Insights, Boundaries, and Opportunities
3:35–3:55PM EST
John S. McCloy (Washington State University), Jose Marcial (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Julian Chestnutt (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), James Neeway (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Carolyn Pearce (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Albert Kruger (US Department of Energy)
Evaluation of Radionuclides Release Rates for Reference PWR Spent Nuclear Fuels in South Korea
3:55–4:15PM EST
Kwang Pyo Choi (Hanyang University)
Evaluation of an Anion Sorbent for Engineered Barrier Systems
4:15–4:35PM EST
Jeffery Greathouse (Sandia), Jessica Kruichak (Sandia), Philippe F. Weck (Sandia), Mark Rodriguez (Sandia), Benjamin Juba (Sandia), Mila N. Lam (Sandia), Yifeng Wang (Sandia), Edward Matteo (Sandia)
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