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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
Thursday, November 17, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Lantana
Session Chair:
David Fukuyama (Sandia)
Alternate Chair:
Tara LaForce (Sandia)
Session Organizer:
Emily R. Stein
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Machine Learning Surrogate Process Models for Efficient Performance Assessment of a Nuclear Waste Repository
1:00–1:20PM MST
Bert J. Debusschere (Sandia), D. Thomas Seidl (Sandia), Timothy M. Berg (Sandia), Kyung Won Chang (Sandia), Rosemary C. Leone (Sandia), Laura P. Swiler (Sandia), Paul E. Mariner (Sandia)
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Studying the Bentonite Buffer for HLW Geological Disposal: Large Scale Field Tests and the Corresponding Modeling
1:20–1:40PM MST
Liange Zheng (LBNL), Sangcheol Yoon (LBNL), Jonny Rutqvist (LBNL), Jens Birkholzer (LBNL)
Experimental Study of Bentonite Buffer for Geologic Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste
1:40–2:00PM MST
Chun Chang (LBNL), Sharon Borglin (LBNL), Chunwei Chou (LBNL), LianGe Zheng (LBNL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL), Timothy J. Kneafsey (LBNL), Seiji Nakagawa (LBNL), Jens T. Birkholzer (LBNL)
Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Modeling for a High Temperature Heating and Hydration Column Experiment
2:00–2:20PM MST
Sangcheol Yoon (LBNL), Sharon Borglin (LBNL), Chun Chang (LBNL), Chunwei Chou (LBNL), Liange Zheng (LBNL), Yuxin Wu (LBNL)
1-D Multiphase Simulation of Bentonite Saturation Using PFLOTRAN: Preliminary Results
2:20–2:40PM MST
Carlos F. Jové Colón (Sandia), Carlos M. Lopez (Sandia), Kristopher L. Kuhlman (Sandia)
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