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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Leak-tightness test on deck for SRS mega unit
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak-tightness test to qualify the megavolume Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 10 to store up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution produced at the site.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|10:00–11:45AM MST|Noble
Session Chair:
Michael Nole (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chven Mitchell (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Impact of Inventory Changes on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Performance Assessment
10:00–10:20AM MST
Seth King (Sandia), James Bethune (Sandia), Sarah Brunell (Sandia), Dwayne Kicker (Sandia), Sungtae Kim (Sandia)
Paper
Moving from 2D to 3D Flow Modeling for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Performance Assessment
10:20–10:40AM MST
Tara LaForce (Sandia), Seth King (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia)
A Next-Generation Transport Simulator for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Performance Assessment
10:40–11:00AM MST
Jennifer M. Frederick (Sandia), Michael A. Nole (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia)
Modeling Geologic Waste Repository Systems Below Residual Saturation
11:00–11:20AM MST
Matthew Paul (Sandia), Heeho Park (Sandia), Michael Nole (Sandia)
Newton Trust Region Methods for Nuclear Waste Repository Porous Media Flow Simulations
11:20–11:40AM MST
Heeho Park (Sandia)
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