Appendix B

Presentations at the Committee’s Information-Gathering Meetings

PUBLIC MEETING #1: SEPTEMBER 21–22, 2020, VIRTUAL

Presentations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy

• Opening Remarks on Behalf of the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE), William Boyle, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, U.S. Department of Energy
• Perspectives on the Congressional Mandate, Christopher T. Hanson, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Former Staff Member, U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee
• U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Staff Presentation on the Congressional Mandate, Scott McKee, Professional Staff Member, U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Water
• Overview of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain Program, Andrew Griffith, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain, U.S. Department of Energy
• Support for Advanced Reactor Development and Deployment, Alice Caponiti, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Deployment, U.S. Department of Energy
• Overview of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation and Screening, Bhupinder P. Singh, Program Manager, Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain (NE-4), Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Regulatory Programs on Fuel Cycles and Waste Aspects of Advanced Reactors, Christopher M. Regan, Deputy Director, James Hammelman, Senior Chemical Process Engineer, and Jose R. Cuadrado, Project Manager, Division of Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

PUBLIC MEETING #2: DECEMBER 7–8, 2020, VIRTUAL

Presentations from Argonne National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory

• Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) Project Status and Overview, Thomas O’Connor, Director, Versatile Test Reactor Program, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

• VTR Core Design and Fuel Selection, Thomas Fanning, Manager, Safety and Engineering Analysis Department, Nuclear Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• VTR Experimental Capabilities, Kevan Weaver, Director, Experimental Capabilities for the VTR, Idaho National Laboratory
• VTR Fuel Cycle and Waste Management, Douglas Crawford, Director of the Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT), Idaho National Laboratory
• Systems Perspective on Advanced Fuel Cycles and Waste Management, Temitope Taiwo, Interim Director, Nuclear Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Summary of DOE-NE Material Recovery and Waste Form Campaign R&D, Terry Todd, Laboratory Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
• Ceramic Fuel and TRISO Fuel Recycle Options, Terry Todd, Laboratory Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
• Molten Salt Reactor Fuel Recycle Options, Candido Pereira, Deputy Director, Chemical and Fuel Cycle Technologies Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Metal Fuel Recycle Options, Mark Williamson, Division Director, Chemical and Fuel Cycle Technologies Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Waste Form Development, Bill Ebert, Manager, Pyroprocess and Waste Form Development, Chemical and Fuel Cycle Technologies Division, Argonne National Laboratory
• Nonproliferation Considerations, Michael Miller, Director, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Idaho National Laboratory
• Economics of Future Fuel Cycle Options, Brent Dixon, Deputy National Technical Director, DOE-NE Systems Analysis and Integration, R&D Campaign, Idaho National Laboratory

PUBLIC MEETING #3: JANUARY 11 AND 13, 2021, VIRTUAL

• NuScale Power: A Scalable Clean Energy Solution, José Reyes, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, NuScale Power
• Terrestrial Energy: Overview of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor, David LeBlanc, President, Chief Technology Officer and Director, Terrestrial Energy
• ThorCon 1 GW Plant, Lars Jorgensen, Chief Executive Officer, ThorCon
• BWXT’s Advanced Nuclear Reactor, Erik Nygaard, Director of Research and Engineering, BWXT Advanced Technologies
• Overview of X-Energy’s 200 MWth Xe-100 Reactor, Eben Mulder, Chief Nuclear Officer, X-Energy
• General Atomics, Christina Back, Vice President, Nuclear Technologies and Materials, and Robert Schleicher, Chief Engineer, General Atomics
• Kairos Power Overview, Edward Blandford, Chief Technology Officer and Cofounder, and Per Peterson, Chief Nuclear Officer and Cofounder, Kairos
• Flibe Energy, Kirk Sorensen, President and Chief Technologist, Flibe Energy

PUBLIC MEETING #4: FEBRUARY 22–23, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Framatome Steam Cycle High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors, Lewis Lommers, HTGR Engineering Manager, Framatome
• Natrium, Pavel Hejzlar, TerraPower Technical Fellow, and Tara Neider, SVP Program Development and Lab Facilities, TerraPower
• TerraPower’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR), Jeff Latkowski, Senior Vice President (Innovation) and Program Director of Molden Chloride Fast Reactor Program, TerraPower
• The ARC-100 Advanced SMR, Ed Arthur, Vice President, Fuel Cycle Management and Safeguards, and John Sackett, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, ARC Clean Energy
• LeadCold, Janne Wallenius, Project Leader, SEALER Blykalla/LeadCold
• Moltex Technology, Rory O’Sullivan, CEO for North America, Moltex Energy

• Oklo, Caroline Cochran, COO and Co-Founder, and Jacob DeWitte, CEO and Cofounder, Oklo
• X-Energy’s TRISO Fuel Production, Pete Pappano, Vice President, Fuel Production, X-Energy

PUBLIC MEETING #5: MAY 17–19, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Application of Safeguards by Design to Advanced Reactors, Jeremy Whitlock, Section Head for Concepts and Approaches, Department of Safeguards, International Atomic Energy Agency
• Perspectives on Proliferation-Resistance (and Terror-Resistance): Fuel Cycles and Advanced Reactors, Matthew Bunn, Co–Principal Investigator, Managing the Atom Project, Belfar Center, Harvard University
• Safeguards and Security Analysis for Fuel Cycle Facilities, Ben Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories
• New Approaches Utilizing Process Monitoring Data and Machine Learning, Ben Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories
• Advanced Reactor Safeguards and Security, Ben Cipiti, Sandia National Laboratories
• IAEA Safeguards Considerations Associated with HALEU, Warren Stern, Deputy Chair, Nonproliferation and Security, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Aspects of Material Accounting and Control for Advanced Reactors, Robert K. Larsen, Senior Nuclear Security Officer, Nuclear Security of Materials and Facilities Section, Division of Nuclear Security, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, International Atomic Energy Agency
• Proliferation Risks of Laser Enrichment of Uranium, Ryan Snyder, Visiting Fellow, University of Hamburg, Institute of Peace Research and Security Policy
• Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation and Cooperation with the Advanced Reactor Industry, Jeffery Chamberlin, Associate Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of Material Management and Minimization, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
• Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation’s Civil Nuclear Security Program, Katherine C. Holt, Program Director for Analytics and Innovation, Office of International Nuclear Security, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
• Support to U.S. Advanced Reactor Stakeholders, Anagha Iyengar, Program Manager, Office of International Nuclear Safeguards, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
• HALEU Security Theft and Diversion at Fixed Sites and in Transit, Tim Harris, Senior Program Manager, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Safeguards and Material Accounting for Advanced Reactors and Associated Fuel Cycles, James Rubenstone, Chief of the Material Control and Accounting Branch in the Division of Fuel Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

PUBLIC MEETING #6: JUNE 2 AND JUNE 7, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Status and Prospects of HALEU Production in the United States, Daniel B. Poneman, President and CEO, and Larry Cutlip, Senior Vice President, Field Operations, Centrus Energy Corporation
• The Rationale for Reprocessing and Recycling, Andrew Worrall, Section Head, Integrated Fuel Cycle, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Deputy Director, Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear, and UK Country Coordinator, DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
• Impacts of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Choices on Permanent Disposal of High-Activity Radioactive Waste, Peter N. Swift, Sandia National Laboratories
• Radioactive Waste Management Issues to Be Considered When Evaluating Different Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options, Piet Zuidema, Chief Scientific Officer, European Joint Programme on Radioactive Waste Management (EURAD)
• Some Impacts of Advanced Fuel Cycle Options on Waste Management and Long-Term Disposal Risks, Bernd Grambow, Professor of Excellence and Chair of Nuclear Waste Management, IMT Atlantique, École des Mines Télécom Atlantique, Nantes, France

• Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits of Reprocessing, Frank N. von Hippel, Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University
• The Economics of Reprocessing and Recycling Versus Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Matthew Bunn, Co–Principal Investigator, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center, Harvard University
• Westinghouse eVinci™ Micro-Reactor, Vefa N. Kucukboyaci

PUBLIC MEETING #7: JULY 20, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Attractiveness of Materials in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Charles G. Bathke, Los Alamos National Laboratory

PUBLIC MEETING #8: SEPTEMBER 13–15, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Advanced Research Project Agency—Energy (ARPA-E) Efforts Supporting Advanced Nuclear, Jenifer Shafer, Program Director, ARPA-E
• Proliferation Resistance Using Methodology of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO), Brian Boyer, Section Head, International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles (INPRO) Section, Division of Nuclear Power, Department of Nuclear Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Implementation of IAEA Safeguards within the United States, David H. Hanks, Senior International Nuclear Safeguards Analyst, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Front End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Amir Vexler, President and CEO, Orano USA
• Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Arnaud Gay, Executive VP, Technical Department and International Operations, Orano, and Sven Bader, Technical Consultant, Orano Federal Services
• Russia’s Efforts to Develop Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Pavel Podvig, Independent Analyst, Geneva, Switzerland

PUBLIC MEETING #9: SEPTEMBER 28–29, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Overview of the Generation IV International Forum, Hideki Kamide, Deputy Director General for Sector of Fast Reactor and Advanced Reactor Research and Development, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), and Chair of the Generation IV International
• Status of the SFR Technology Developments in the Generation IV International Forum: Reactor Design and Fuel Research and Development, Gilles Rodriguez, Technical Director of the Generation IV International Forum, and Frédéric Serre, Chair of the Generation IV International Forum Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (SFR) System Steering Committee
• Review of Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Associated Accident Phenomena, Fred Gelbard, Chemical Engineer, Sandia National Laboratories
• Meeting Advanced Reactors’ Needs for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium: (1) U.S. Department of Energy’s Plans and (2) Independent Report with Results from Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear April 2020 Workshop; (1) Andrew Griffith, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain, U.S. Department of Energy, and (2) Monica Regalbuto, Director, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Strategy, Idaho National Laboratory
• Role of Aqueous Separations in Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Gregg Lumetta, Lab Fellow, Chemist, Nuclear Chemistry and Engineering Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• France’s Strategy on the Back-End of the Fuel Cycle and the Management and Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Patrick Landais, High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, CEA, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
• Treatment of EBR-II Spent Fuel, Michael N. Patterson, Program Manager, Used Fuels Treatment, Materials and Fuels Complex, Idaho National Laboratory

• Panel Discussion with Utility Executives, Greg Cullen, Vice President for Energy Services and Development, Energy Northwest; Nick Irvin, Research and Development Director, Advanced Energy Systems, Cross Cutting Technology, and Strategy, Southern Company; Marilyn C. Kray, Vice President of Nuclear Strategy and Development, Exelon; and Chris Nolan, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Policy, and Emergency Preparedness, Duke Energy

PUBLIC MEETING #10: OCTOBER 14–15, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) Perspectives on Waste Acceptance from Advanced Reactors, Paul Gierszewski, NWMO Director, Safety and Technical Research, Canada
• The U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Reports on Uranium Management, Allison Bawden, Director in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s Natural Resources and Environment Team
• Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Technologies, Robert Hill, Program Manager, Advanced NE R&D and Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
• Spent Nuclear Fuel Management and Back-End Safeguards, Rowen Price, Research Assistant, Nuclear Safeguards, and Cindy Vestergaard, Senior Fellow and Director, Block Chain in Practice and Nuclear Safeguards, Stimson Center
• Safeguards Technology Considerations and Research Needs for Thorium Fuel Cycles and Molten Salt Reactors, Louise G. Worrall, Senior R&D Scientist, Non-Destructive Measurement Science and Technology Group, Nuclear Nonproliferation Division, National Nuclear Security Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Nuclear Waste from Small Modular Reactors, Lindsay Krall, Geochemist, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company
• Hazards Associated with Molten Salt Reactor Systems, Joanna Mcfarlane, Chemist, Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Westinghouse’s Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor, Paolo Ferroni, Fellow Engineer and Technical Lead, Westinghouse Lead Fast Reactor Project, and Fausto Fraceschini, Consulting Engineer, Westinghouse Mangiarotti, Westinghouse Electric Company

PUBLIC MEETING #11: DECEMBER 6, 2021, VIRTUAL

• China’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Programs, Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kenny School
• Trends in Nuclear Fuel Cycle Workforce, Terry A. Todd, Emeritus Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
• Perspectives from the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, Kathryn D. Huff, Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Perspectives from Congress: Panel Discussion with Key Staff of the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives—Aaron Goldner, Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee, and Scott McKee, Professional Staff Member, House Appropriations Committee

PUBLIC MEETING #12: DECEMBER 16, 2021, VIRTUAL

• Advanced Non–Light Water Reactors: Integrated Waste Management System Considerations, Mark Nutt, Deputy National Technical Director of the DOE-NE Integrated Waste Management System

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