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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
Teresa Portone (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Chun Chang (LBNL)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Review of Groundwater Flow and Transport Modeling at DOE's Legacy Sites for Improving the Fidelity of Performance Assessments
1:00–1:20PM MST
Haruko M. Wainwright (MIT), Amy Jordan (Neptune), Laren Foster (Neptune), Steve Yabusaki (PNNL), Philip Long (LBNL), Stefan Finsterle (Finsterle GeoConsulting), Paul Black (Neptune)
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Use of Virtual Tracers in Repository Performance Assessment Modeling
1:20–1:40PM MST
Paul E. Mariner (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Dusty M. Brooks (Sandia), Rosie C. Leone (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura P. Swiler (Sandia)
Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of FMD Model Choice for a Generic Crystalline Repository
1:40–2:00PM MST
Dusty Brooks (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia), Paul Mariner (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Eduardo Basurto (Sandia), Rosie Leone (Sandia)
Effects of Discrete Fracture Network Modeling Choices on Repository Performance Characteristics
2:00–2:20PM MST
Mariah Smith (Sandia), Teresa Portone (Sandia), Laura Swiler (Sandia)
Validation of the Sampling Methodology of Statistical Fracture Network Realizations for Three-Dimensional Nuclide Transport Analysis
2:20–2:40PM MST
Fumiko Yoshida (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiroyuki Umeki (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Hiromitsu Saegusa (Nuclear Waste Mgmt. Org. Japan), Kazuaki Mitsuyama (QJ Science), Hirokazu Takahashi (QJ Science), Wataru Haneishi (QJ Science), Hiroyasu Takase (QJ Science)
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