Waste Forms Technology and Performance: Interim Report (2010)
Chapter: Attachment C: Workshop Agenda
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 |
| Milt Levenson and Rod Ewing |
Session I: | International Perspectives |
8:30–9:00 am | Glass and spent fuel corrosion, coupling of waste forms to thenear field, and long-term models of performance |
| Berndt Grambow, Laboratoire De Physique Subatomique Et Des Technologies Associees (SUBATECH), France |
9:00–9:30 am | Cementatious waste forms and barriers |
| Fred Glasser, University of Aberdeen, UK |
9:30-10:00 am | Combined inert matrix fuels and related waste forms |
| 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 crucibletechnology |
| Sergey Stefanovsky, SIA Radon, Russia |
11:00-11:30 pm | Overview of CEA’s and French initiatives related to waste forms |
| Etienne Vernaz, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, France |
11:30-12:00 pm | Overview of Australia/ANSTO initiatives related to waste forms |
| 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 ofwaste forms |
| Bill Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
1:30-2:00 pm | Overview of waste forms and near-field interactions in aperformance assessment perspective |
| Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
2:00-2:30 pm | Matching waste forms to waste processing strategies |
| Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratory |
2:30-3:00 pm | Impact of waste forms on overall repository performanceassessment |
| Peter Swift, Sandia National Laboratories |
3:00-3:15 pm | Break |
3:15-3:45 pm | Overview of the Vitreous State Laboratory and geopolymerdevelopment |
| Ian Pegg and Werner Lutze, Catholic University of America |
3:45-4:15 pm | Cementitious Barriers Partnership |
| David Kosson, Vanderbilt University |
4:15-4:45 pm | Industry perspectives on potential waste forms from recycling |
| Rod McCullum, Nuclear Energy Institute |
4:45-5:15 pm | Panel discussion |
| All participants |
5:15 pm | Adjourn |
