Prof.
Michael Ojovan
(International Atomic Energy Agency), Dr
Miklos (Mike) Garamszeghy
(Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Canada)
30/10/2017, 09:45
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
Radioactive waste with widely varying characteristics is generated from the operation and maintenance of nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, research facilities and medical facilities and the through the use of radioisotopes in industrial applications. The waste needs to be treated and conditioned as necessary to provide wasteforms acceptable for safe storage and disposal....
Mr
Hefin Griffiths
(ANSTO)
30/10/2017, 10:15
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
Australia is currently in the process of establishing a National Radioactive Waste Management Facility and seeking to identify a site to host the facility.
The lecture will focus on the history of waste production in Australia, the current management of the diverse waste arisings, particularly focussed on operational and legacy wastes held at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology...
Mr
Michael Slater
(Invited Lecturer)
30/10/2017, 10:45
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
Plutonium has arisen from large scale reprocessing over many decades. When the programmes ends around 2020 there will be approx. 140te of separated plutonium in UK. Current policy is safe and secure long term storage in modern purpose built stores. This requires ongoing active management and institutional controls including significant security costs and is not a lifecycle solution....
Mr
Miklos Garamszeghy
(Nuclear Waste Management Organization)
30/10/2017, 11:15
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
In Canada, used CANDU (CANada Deuterium Uranium) nuclear fuel from the operation of 22 current and former nuclear power reactors, as well as several prototype and demonstration reactors, is stored in water-filled pools for about seven to ten years before it is transferred to licensed dry storage containers at the nuclear reactor sites. Although safe, this storage practice requires continuous...
Dr
Evaristo J. Bonano
(Sandia National Laboratories)
30/10/2017, 11:45
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
The recognition that the endpoint of spent fuel management practices will be deep geologic disposal of radioactive wastes leads to questions about how alternative options for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) management might affect performance of a geologic repository. Do some options for SNF management simplify the siting and design of a geologic repository? Do some geologic disposal concepts...
Mr
Gerry Triani
(ANSTO)
30/10/2017, 12:15
Performance Assessment and geological disposal
Oral Presentation
A new nuclear medicine facility is being built which will enable ANSTO to meet both domestic and global demand for Molybdenum-99. Co-located on the site will be an innovative waste treatment facility that deploys ANSTO’s Synroc technologies; a waste form tailored for immobilizing all the waste elements and fission products and an integrated process line for converting intermediate level...
Dr
Massey de los Reyes
(South Australian Environment Protection Authoirty)
30/10/2017, 12:45
National and international collaborative waste management programs
Oral Presentation
On the 19th of March 2015, the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (NFCRC) was established by the South Australian Government, and tasked to undertake an independent examination into the opportunities and risks for South Australia’s further involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle. This presentation will review the process, findings and recommendations delivered by the NFCRC, with particular...
