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The drive to Kairos Power’s reactor demonstration site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., is not only scenic—it’s historic. Nearly 85 years ago, roughly 30,000 construction workers transformed orchards and farmland into a key Manhattan Project site. Depending on your route, you may pass by one of the three gatehouses that were once military checkpoints controlling access to Atomic Energy Commission production facilities.
International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference
Technical Session
Wednesday, November 16, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
LianGe Zheng (LBNL)
Alternate Chair:
Jenn Frederick (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Simplified Computations of Radionuclide Transport in Complex Fracture Networks in Deep Crystalline Rock
1:00–1:20PM MST
Osvaldo Pensado (Southwest Research Institute), Stuart Stothoff (Southwest Research Institute), Mrityunjai Sharma (Uppsala Univ.), Joel Geier (Clearwater Hardrock Consulting), Auli Niemi (Uppsala Univ.), Chin-Fu Tsang (LLNL)
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Development of Radionuclide Transport Model in the Near Field Considering the Long-Term Evolution of Excavation Damaged Zone
1:20–1:40PM MST
Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI)
Effect of Considering Hydraulic Rock Mass Domain on Nuclide Transport in Fractured Rock
1:40–2:00PM MST
Yong-Min Kim (KAERI), Jung-Woo Kim (KAERI), Jaewon Lee (KAERI), Sung-Hoon Ji (KAERI)
DECOVALEX Task F DOE Crystalline Reference Case Results
2:00–2:20PM MST
Rosie Leone (Sandia), Emily Stein (Sandia), Jeffrey D. Hyman (LANL)
Modeling of Fractured Rock Under Stress for Nuclear Waste Disposal Applications
2:20–2:40PM MST
Teklu Hadgu (Sandia), Yifeng Wang (Sandia)