Attachment C:
Workshop Agenda
Workshop on Waste Form Technology and Performance
The Lecture Room
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Building
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
8:15-8:30 am |
Welcome and Introduction |
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Milt Levenson and Rod Ewing |
Session I: |
International Perspectives |
8:30–9:00 am |
Glass and spent fuel corrosion, coupling of waste forms to the near field, and long-term models of performance |
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Berndt Grambow, Laboratoire De Physique Subatomique Et Des Technologies Associees (SUBATECH), France |
9:00–9:30 am |
Cementatious waste forms and barriers |
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Fred Glasser, University of Aberdeen, UK |
9:30-10:00 am |
Combined inert matrix fuels and related waste forms |
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Claude Degueldre, Paul Sheerer Institute, Switzerland |
10:00-10:30 am |
Break |
10:30-11:00 pm |
Ceramic and phosphate glass waste forms and cold crucible technology |
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Sergey Stefanovsky, SIA Radon, Russia |
11:00-11:30 pm |
Overview of CEA’s and French initiatives related to waste forms |
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Etienne Vernaz, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, France |
11:30-12:00 pm |
Overview of Australia/ANSTO initiatives related to waste forms |
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Kath Smith and Bruce Begg, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia |
12:00-1:00 pm |
Lunch |
Session II: |
Select Domestic Issues |
1:00–1:30 am |
Computational methods applied to the design and evaluation of waste forms |
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Bill Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
1:30-2:00 pm |
Overview of waste forms and near-field interactions in a performance assessment perspective |
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Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
2:00-2:30 pm |
Matching waste forms to waste processing strategies |
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Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratory |
2:30-3:00 pm |
Impact of waste forms on overall repository performance assessment |
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Peter Swift, Sandia National Laboratories |
3:00-3:15 pm |
Break |
3:15-3:45 pm |
Overview of the Vitreous State Laboratory and geopolymer development |
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Ian Pegg and Werner Lutze, Catholic University of America |
3:45-4:15 pm |
Cementitious Barriers Partnership |
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David Kosson, Vanderbilt University |
4:15-4:45 pm |
Industry perspectives on potential waste forms from recycling |
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Rod McCullum, Nuclear Energy Institute |
4:45-5:15 pm |
Panel discussion |
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All participants |
5:15 pm |
Adjourn |