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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
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.
Decommissioning Environmental Science and Remote Technology 2021
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|3:05–4:50PM EST |Georgetown East
Session Chair:
Leah Spradley Parks
Alternate Chair:
Jay Peters
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Gavin Ridley
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Crack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network Deployed on Mobile Platform
3:10–3:30PM EST
Roger Boza (Florida International Univ.), Santosh Joshi (Florida International Univ.), Himanshu Upadhyay (Florida International Univ.), Leonel Lagos (Florida International Univ.)
Paper
We Can Weld Shut Spent Fuel Container Lid, Next to Fuel Pellets Safely
3:30–3:50PM EST
Paul Cheng (Univ. of Alberta)
The Maximum Temperature of Heat-generating Glass Waste Canisters in Repository
3:50–4:10PM EST
Minsuk Seo (Penn. State Univ.)
TRM-Transportation of Liquid Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
4:10–4:30PM EST
G. L. Jackson (Savannah River National Laboratory), J.J. Galan (Savannah River National Laboratory)
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