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March 6 – 10, 2016
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Track 1 - CPP

001 - Waste Management Symposium 2016 Plenary Session

3 Articles
Panel
The plenary panel will focus on government and industry world leaders speaking on the pressing issues facing radioactive waste management in 2016 and beyond.
Track 1 - CPP

002 - Panel: Hot Topics in US DOE Environmental Management

8 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on Senior US DOE Managers from Washington, D.C. speaking on the pressing issues facing US DOE EM sites.
Track 1 - CPP

003 - Panel: Featured Country - United Kingdom: High-level Policy Perspectives on the UK's Nuclear Power and Legacy Management Challenges

7 Articles
Panel
This first panel session will provide a high-level overview of the nuclear decommissioning and clean-up challenges in the UK against the backdrop of managing the legacy situation, the existing nuclear programme and the advent of new nuclear build. This panel will discuss the roles of Government policy, NDA strategy, implementation at the site level and the importance of strong but flexible regulation. The special relationship between the US DOE and the UK NDA will also be discussed with particular emphasis on the collaboration between the two Governments on innovative technology development and implementation, operational lessons learned and management approaches.
Track 2 - HLW

004 - Panel: LANL Recovery - Re-Treatment of Problem Waste Stream Nitrate Salts

4 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the treatment of nitrate salt TRU waste drums currently stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory, including those in which a thermally sensitive mixture was created from the use of an organic absorbent during previous remediation operations. Technical, regulatory, and programmatic aspects of this challenging campaign will be described. The session will also provide a high-level discussion of activities of the recently constituted DOE Environmental Management Los Alamos office responsible for managing legacy environmental cleanup at LANL.
Track 2 - HLW

005 - HLW, SNF/UNF and Long-lived Alpha/TRU Programs and Policies

3 Articles
Oral
Track 2 - HLW

006 - Structural Integrity and Wear in Nuclear Process Equipment

4 Articles
Oral
Track 9 - ST

007 - Panel: Managing Safety Culture during Transitions

5 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the application of Human Performance Improvement (HPI) and other approaches to the management of cultural change during transition – transition of the managing contractor, transition of a mission, and/or transition of a workforce. Change of this nature is one of the only certainties in the DOE complex today; the panel will discuss their challenges and experiences – successful and otherwise – driving change with the objective of yielding a strong safety culture on the other side of a transition. Topics will include respect for a historical legacy of performance, reinforcement of changed requirements and expectations, and blending cultures.
Track 3 - LLW

008 - Assessments of Disposal Systems, Facilities and Sites for LLW/ILW – a Global Perspective

3 Articles
Oral
Track 5 - P&T

009 - Tools for Packaging and Transportation Policies

2 Articles
Oral
Track 7 - ER

010 - Groundwater Remediation Projects, Worldwide Experiences

4 Articles
Oral
Track 7 - ER

011 - Around the World Examples of Environmental Remediation in Urban and Suburban Environments

3 Articles
Oral
Track 8 - CE&T

012 - The Effectiveness of Advisory Boards; the US DOE EM Site Specific Advisory Board Experience

4 Articles
Oral
Track 1 - CPP

013 - Panel: Featured Country: United Kingdom: Legacy Site Decommissioning and Cleanup, the Reality

6 Articles
Panel
This two -part panel session will provide a deeper perspective of the challenges associated with decommissioning and clean-up activities at legacy nuclear sites in the UK and provide comparisons with the US. In a tough economic environment, how does the UK prioritize its spending, and balance the competing issues of the costs of cleaning up its sites while meeting stakeholder expectations, including those of the regulator? The panelists will further explore the importance and experiences of collaborating at the site and institution level to address these challenges. A US perspective will be provided.
Track 1 - CPP

014 - Panel: Featured Country: United Kingdom: Where shall we put the waste?

5 Articles
Panel
This panel session will provide a perspective of the challenges related to waste management and disposal activities associated with the UK's nuclear programme. There will be a discussion of the current arrangements for LLW disposal and the forward plans for geological disposal. These have to deal with the current waste arisings (LLW, HLW from reprocessing and spent nuclear fuel) from legacy facilities, operating nuclear plants and the new build power stations. With only one national LLW facility available and no site yet for a geological disposal facility, how is the UK addressing the challenge? Scotland has its own policy on radioactive waste and its influence will be discussed. A US view will also be provided from the perspective of the Yucca Mountain programme.
Track 2 - HLW

015 - Panel: US DOE WIPP: Lessons Learned and Return to Operations Following 2014 Operational Incidents

9 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the WIPP recovery efforts following the equipment fire and airborne radiation release incidents in February 2014, lessons learned, ongoing recovery activities, and impacts on affected DOE TRU waste complex sites. WIPP recovery officials, generator sites, and facility regulators will discuss the recovery plans, status and plans for resumption of TRU waste operations across the DOE complex.
Track 3 - LLW

016 - Panel: Hot Topics in US Commercial LLW Management

5 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on emerging issues in commercial LLW management in the US from the perspective of representatives of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum. State, federal and industry officials will share their views on a variety of timely and significant topics including the proposal to license a disposal cell for NRC classified Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC), GTCC-like and Transuranic waste through means other than deep geologic disposal at the Waste Control Specialists facility in Texas; an initiative to develop implementation guidance for the Branch Technical Position on Concentration Averaging and Encapsulation; status of the proposed rule to amend 10 CFR Part 61, Licensing Requirements for Land Disposal of Radioactive Waste; the depleted uranium performance assessment, license and permit updates, and current waste disposal volumes and types at the Clive facility in Utah; and, broker and processor perspectives on the management and disposition of disused sources.
Track 1 - CPP

017 - Selected Key Topics in US Commercial LLW Management

4 Articles
Oral
The Richard S. Hodes M.D. Honor Award will be presented during this session to Dr. Louis Centofanti, President and Chief Executive Officer of Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. The awards ceremony is followed by the WM2016 Honors Award Lecture, "The Evolution of Chemical Waste Treatment in the Nuclear Industry". After the awards ceremony and lecture, two additional selected key presentations will follow on LLW management.
Track 3 - LLW

018 - Development and Use of Gamma and Neutron Waste Characterization Methods

7 Articles
Oral
Track 7 - ER

019 - Panel: US DOE EM Risk-Informed Performance Based Decision Making

4 Articles
Panel
This panel will focus on highlighting the progress that has been made on the development of tools relative to closure of complex sites throughout the DOE Complex. Panelists will include both National Laboratory principal investigators and student interns performing related studies at test beds located at Savannah River Site and the Hanford Reservation. The topics to be presented will include chemical, physical and biological approaches to in-situ sequestration of contaminants and methods to monitor both performance and long term effectiveness to ensure reduction of risk to human health and the environment.
Track 7 - ER

020 - Panel: Implementing Technically-Based Cleanup; Balancing Regulatory and Fiscal Complexities

2 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on progress and challenges in implementing remediation approaches in the DOE complex that are technically feasible and balance regulatory and fiscal responsibilities. Panelists will include contractors' and government perspectives on successes and challenges.
Track 2 - HLW

021 - Panel: Interim Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel in the US – What are the Options and How Does Private Fuel Storage Fit In?

5 Articles
Panel
This panel will focus on the plans, requirements, and status of efforts to establish one or more consolidated interim dry stores for used nuclear fuel (UNF) in the US. Discussion will include facilities required at a consolidated store for receiving UNF, transport of the fuel to the facility, siting and licensing, lessons learned from previous private storage initiatives, and the status and plans of two proposed private consolidated store facilities in the US.
Track 1 - CPP

022 - Panel: US DOE - Excess Facilities D&D Implementation Plans

2 Articles
Panel
This panel session focuses on the US DOE Office of Environmental Management's actions taken in response to the January 2015, Inspector General's Audit Report on the Department of Energy's Management of High Risk Facilities. DOE EM, in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Office of Science (OS), and Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) initiated a joint working group to aid in the risk prioritization, life cycle cost analysis and improved disposition planning of excess facilities across the US DOE complex. WM attendees interested in DOE plans to implement this strategy are encouraged to attend this panel session.
Track 2 - HLW

023 - Experience in Salt Waste Processing, Worldwide Examples

4 Articles
Oral
Track 6 - D&D

024 - Panel/Papers: Getting a Handle on Decommissioning Costs - a Global Perspective

4 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on decommissioning costs as they are difficult to assess without significant uncertainty. Data comparisons from completed decommissioning projects from those that are in progress, and those that are being planned, have shown steep escalation in project costs. This panel will focus on the cost control issues, methodologies and experience in national and international projects. Specifically, the panel discussion will include improving cost estimation models, reasons for cost escalation and strategies for reining in the overall decommissioning costs.
Track 6 - D&D

025 - Application of Innovative D&D Technologies Part 1 of 2 – Global Experience

6 Articles
Oral
001 - Waste Management Symposium 2016 Plenary Session 3 Articles
Panel
The plenary panel will focus on government and industry world leaders speaking on the pressing issues facing radioactive waste management in 2016 and beyond.
002 - Panel: Hot Topics in US DOE Environmental Management 8 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on Senior US DOE Managers from Washington, D.C. speaking on the pressing issues facing US DOE EM sites.
003 - Panel: Featured Country - United Kingdom: High-level Policy Perspectives on the UK's Nuclear Power and Legacy Management Challenges 7 Articles
Panel
This first panel session will provide a high-level overview of the nuclear decommissioning and clean-up challenges in the UK against the backdrop of managing the legacy situation, the existing nuclear programme and the advent of new nuclear build. This panel will discuss the roles of Government policy, NDA strategy, implementation at the site level and the importance of strong but flexible regulation. The special relationship between the US DOE and the UK NDA will also be discussed with particular emphasis on the collaboration between the two Governments on innovative technology development and implementation, operational lessons learned and management approaches.
004 - Panel: LANL Recovery - Re-Treatment of Problem Waste Stream Nitrate Salts 4 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the treatment of nitrate salt TRU waste drums currently stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory, including those in which a thermally sensitive mixture was created from the use of an organic absorbent during previous remediation operations. Technical, regulatory, and programmatic aspects of this challenging campaign will be described. The session will also provide a high-level discussion of activities of the recently constituted DOE Environmental Management Los Alamos office responsible for managing legacy environmental cleanup at LANL.
005 - HLW, SNF/UNF and Long-lived Alpha/TRU Programs and Policies 3 Articles
Oral
006 - Structural Integrity and Wear in Nuclear Process Equipment 4 Articles
Oral
007 - Panel: Managing Safety Culture during Transitions 5 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the application of Human Performance Improvement (HPI) and other approaches to the management of cultural change during transition – transition of the managing contractor, transition of a mission, and/or transition of a workforce. Change of this nature is one of the only certainties in the DOE complex today; the panel will discuss their challenges and experiences – successful and otherwise – driving change with the objective of yielding a strong safety culture on the other side of a transition. Topics will include respect for a historical legacy of performance, reinforcement of changed requirements and expectations, and blending cultures.
008 - Assessments of Disposal Systems, Facilities and Sites for LLW/ILW – a Global Perspective 3 Articles
Oral
009 - Tools for Packaging and Transportation Policies 2 Articles
Oral
010 - Groundwater Remediation Projects, Worldwide Experiences 4 Articles
Oral
011 - Around the World Examples of Environmental Remediation in Urban and Suburban Environments 3 Articles
Oral
012 - The Effectiveness of Advisory Boards; the US DOE EM Site Specific Advisory Board Experience 4 Articles
Oral
013 - Panel: Featured Country: United Kingdom: Legacy Site Decommissioning and Cleanup, the Reality 6 Articles
Panel
This two -part panel session will provide a deeper perspective of the challenges associated with decommissioning and clean-up activities at legacy nuclear sites in the UK and provide comparisons with the US. In a tough economic environment, how does the UK prioritize its spending, and balance the competing issues of the costs of cleaning up its sites while meeting stakeholder expectations, including those of the regulator? The panelists will further explore the importance and experiences of collaborating at the site and institution level to address these challenges. A US perspective will be provided.
014 - Panel: Featured Country: United Kingdom: Where shall we put the waste? 5 Articles
Panel
This panel session will provide a perspective of the challenges related to waste management and disposal activities associated with the UK's nuclear programme. There will be a discussion of the current arrangements for LLW disposal and the forward plans for geological disposal. These have to deal with the current waste arisings (LLW, HLW from reprocessing and spent nuclear fuel) from legacy facilities, operating nuclear plants and the new build power stations. With only one national LLW facility available and no site yet for a geological disposal facility, how is the UK addressing the challenge? Scotland has its own policy on radioactive waste and its influence will be discussed. A US view will also be provided from the perspective of the Yucca Mountain programme.
015 - Panel: US DOE WIPP: Lessons Learned and Return to Operations Following 2014 Operational Incidents 9 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on the WIPP recovery efforts following the equipment fire and airborne radiation release incidents in February 2014, lessons learned, ongoing recovery activities, and impacts on affected DOE TRU waste complex sites. WIPP recovery officials, generator sites, and facility regulators will discuss the recovery plans, status and plans for resumption of TRU waste operations across the DOE complex.
016 - Panel: Hot Topics in US Commercial LLW Management 5 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on emerging issues in commercial LLW management in the US from the perspective of representatives of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum. State, federal and industry officials will share their views on a variety of timely and significant topics including the proposal to license a disposal cell for NRC classified Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC), GTCC-like and Transuranic waste through means other than deep geologic disposal at the Waste Control Specialists facility in Texas; an initiative to develop implementation guidance for the Branch Technical Position on Concentration Averaging and Encapsulation; status of the proposed rule to amend 10 CFR Part 61, Licensing Requirements for Land Disposal of Radioactive Waste; the depleted uranium performance assessment, license and permit updates, and current waste disposal volumes and types at the Clive facility in Utah; and, broker and processor perspectives on the management and disposition of disused sources.
017 - Selected Key Topics in US Commercial LLW Management 4 Articles
Oral
The Richard S. Hodes M.D. Honor Award will be presented during this session to Dr. Louis Centofanti, President and Chief Executive Officer of Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. The awards ceremony is followed by the WM2016 Honors Award Lecture, "The Evolution of Chemical Waste Treatment in the Nuclear Industry". After the awards ceremony and lecture, two additional selected key presentations will follow on LLW management.
018 - Development and Use of Gamma and Neutron Waste Characterization Methods 7 Articles
Oral
019 - Panel: US DOE EM Risk-Informed Performance Based Decision Making 4 Articles
Panel
This panel will focus on highlighting the progress that has been made on the development of tools relative to closure of complex sites throughout the DOE Complex. Panelists will include both National Laboratory principal investigators and student interns performing related studies at test beds located at Savannah River Site and the Hanford Reservation. The topics to be presented will include chemical, physical and biological approaches to in-situ sequestration of contaminants and methods to monitor both performance and long term effectiveness to ensure reduction of risk to human health and the environment.
020 - Panel: Implementing Technically-Based Cleanup; Balancing Regulatory and Fiscal Complexities 2 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on progress and challenges in implementing remediation approaches in the DOE complex that are technically feasible and balance regulatory and fiscal responsibilities. Panelists will include contractors' and government perspectives on successes and challenges.
021 - Panel: Interim Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel in the US – What are the Options and How Does Private Fuel Storage Fit In? 5 Articles
Panel
This panel will focus on the plans, requirements, and status of efforts to establish one or more consolidated interim dry stores for used nuclear fuel (UNF) in the US. Discussion will include facilities required at a consolidated store for receiving UNF, transport of the fuel to the facility, siting and licensing, lessons learned from previous private storage initiatives, and the status and plans of two proposed private consolidated store facilities in the US.
022 - Panel: US DOE - Excess Facilities D&D Implementation Plans 2 Articles
Panel
This panel session focuses on the US DOE Office of Environmental Management's actions taken in response to the January 2015, Inspector General's Audit Report on the Department of Energy's Management of High Risk Facilities. DOE EM, in collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the Office of Science (OS), and Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) initiated a joint working group to aid in the risk prioritization, life cycle cost analysis and improved disposition planning of excess facilities across the US DOE complex. WM attendees interested in DOE plans to implement this strategy are encouraged to attend this panel session.
023 - Experience in Salt Waste Processing, Worldwide Examples 4 Articles
Oral
024 - Panel/Papers: Getting a Handle on Decommissioning Costs - a Global Perspective 4 Articles
Panel
This panel focuses on decommissioning costs as they are difficult to assess without significant uncertainty. Data comparisons from completed decommissioning projects from those that are in progress, and those that are being planned, have shown steep escalation in project costs. This panel will focus on the cost control issues, methodologies and experience in national and international projects. Specifically, the panel discussion will include improving cost estimation models, reasons for cost escalation and strategies for reining in the overall decommissioning costs.
025 - Application of Innovative D&D Technologies Part 1 of 2 – Global Experience 6 Articles
Oral