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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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Panel|Session Chair: Erik Mader
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|10:00–11:30AM EST
Panel|Session Chair: David Kropaczek
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Panel|Session Chairs: Mike Doster, Bill Martin, Sherry Bailey
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair: Cenk Guler
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|10:00–11:30AM EST
Session Chair: Zeses Karoutas
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair: Fausto Francescini
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|2:40–4:20PM EST
Session Chair: Andrew Godfrey
Wednesday, November 18, 2020|4:50–6:30PM EST
Session Chair: Richard Williamson
Session Chair: Giovanni Pastore
Session Chair: Kyle Gamble
Panel|Session Chair: David Andersson
Thursday, November 19, 2020|10:00–11:45AM EST
Session Chair: Jason Hales
Thursday, November 19, 2020|12:15–2:00PM EST
Session Chair: David Andersson
Thursday, November 19, 2020|2:30–4:15PM EST
Session Chair: Ross Bartlett
Session Chair: Kevin Clarno
Panel|Session Chair: Rob Lefebvre
Session Chair: Bob Salko
Session Chair: Tara Pandya
Panel|Session Chair: Tara Pandya
Session Chair: Bill Martin
Session Chair: Emilio Baglietto
Session Chair: Gretar Tryggvason
Session Chair: David Pointer
Session Chair: Robert Brewster
Panel|Session Chair: David Luxat
Session Chair: Chris Jones
Session Chair: Ralph Smith
