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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Mesquite
Session Chair:
James Goode (UK NNL)
Alternate Chair:
Steve Skutnik (ORNL)
Session Organizer:
Brady Hanson (PNNL)
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Measurement of Aerosol Transmission Through a Stress Corrosion Crack-Like Geometry
1:00–1:20PM MST
Samuel Durbin (Sandia), Ramon Pulido (Sandia), Philip Jones (Sandia), Adrian Perales (Sandia)
Paper
Applications of a New Probability Methodology for Corrosion Propagation Rate with Confidence Bounds for Dry Storage Canister Safety
1:20–1:40PM MST
Joshua Hoskinson (Colorado School of Mines), William Navidi (Colorado School of Mines), Zeev Shayer (Univ. New Mexico)
Environmental Impacts on Thermal Performance of Spent Fuel Storage Systems
1:40–2:00PM MST
David J. Richmond (PNNL), Ben J. Jensen (PNNL)
Developments into Understanding Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Canister Surface Environments
2:00–2:20PM MST
A.W. Knight (Sandia), R. Katona (Sandia), M. Maguire (Sandia), B. Nation (Sandia), J.M. Taylor (Sandia), R.F. Schaller (Sandia), C.R. Bryan (Sandia)
Towards Structural Integrity Investigations of Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies with Finite Element Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Olympios Alifieris (Nagra), Efstathios Vlassopoulos (Nagra), Susanne Pudollek (Nagra), Michail Hadjigeorgiou (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Dimitrios Papaioannou (European Commission, JRC), Ramil Nasyrow (European Commission, JRC), Vincenzo V. Rondinella (European Commission, JRC), Stefano Caruso (Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant)
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