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        | 08:30 | Registration
            
            
            
            (until 09:30)
            
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        | 09:30 | Welcome Address
            
            
            
            (until 09:45)
            
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        | 09:45 | National & International Waste Management Programs: Session Chairs Greg Lumpkin & Simone Richter
            
            
            
            (until 13:00)
            
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        | 09:45 | Advances in conditioning of low and intermediate nuclear waste
            
            
                - Dr
    Miklos (Mike) Garamszeghy
            (Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Canada) Prof.
    Michael Ojovan
            (International Atomic Energy Agency)
            
             
            
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        | 10:15 | Nuclear Waste Management update in Australia
            
            
                - Mr
    Hefin Griffiths
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 10:45 | Invited Lecture: Plutonium Waste Management in the UK
            
            
                - Mr
    Michael Slater
            (Invited Lecturer)
            
             
            
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        | 11:15 | Status of Used Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Long-term Management Programs in Canada
            
            
                - Mr
    Miklos Garamszeghy
            (Nuclear Waste Management Organization)
            
             
            
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        | 11:45 | The Need for Integrating the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
            
            
                - Dr
    Evaristo J. Bonano
            (Sandia National Laboratories)
            
             
            
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        | 12:15 | Synroc Waste Treatment Plant for fission-based Molybdenum-99 Production
            
            
                - Mr
    Gerry Triani
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 12:45 | Multinational Waste Repositories: A South Australian Initiative
            
            
                - Dr
    Massey de los Reyes
            (South Australian Environment Protection Authoirty)
            
             
            
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        | 08:30 | Safeguards, Decontamination & Decommissioning
            
            
            
            (until 10:30)
            
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        | 08:30 | Interaction of nuclear safeguards and safety requirements when planning for waste disposal
            
            
                - Ms
    Rebecca Stohr
            (Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office)
            
             
            
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        | 09:00 | Towards a ‘3S toolbox’ for providing safety, security and safeguards at geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel
            
            
                - Dr
    Irmgard Niemeyer
            (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
            
             
            
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        | 09:30 | Chornobyl NPP Cooling Pond: Decommissioning
            
            
                - Mr
    Oleksandr Novikov
            (SSE Chernobyl NPP)
            
             
            
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        | 09:45 | Application of Nuclear Waste Management and Remediation Experience and Lessons Learned
            
            
                - Ms
    Jeanne Poling
            (CH2M)
            
             
            
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        | 10:00 | Management of the Radioactive Waste arising from the Decommissioning of the WWR-S Research Reactor from IFIN-HH, Magurele, Romania
            
            
                - Dr
    Cristian Dragolici
            (IFIN-HH)
            
             
            
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        | 10:15 | Microparticle Production as Reference Materials for Particle Analysis Methods in Safeguards
            
            
                - Dr
    Stefan Neumeier
            (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
            
             
            
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      | 10:30 | --- Morning Tea --- |  
        | 11:00 | Glass Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 12:15)
            
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        | 11:00 | Towards understanding the dissolution of vitrified nuclear waste in a cementitious geological disposal facility
            
            
                - Dr
    Claire Corkhill
            (NucleUS Immobilisation Science Laboratory, University of Sheffield,)
            
             
            
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        | 11:30 | (Scholarship application) Thermal Treatment of Magnox Sludge Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste through Vitrification
            
            
                - Mr
    Sean Barlow
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
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        | 11:45 | Chemical Durability of Borosilicate Glass-Ceramic High-Level Waste Form in Dilute and Static Conditions
            
            
                - Mr
    Jarrod Crum
            (PNNL)
            
             
            
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        | 12:00 | Effects of Li, Ca, Fe, and B on NaAlSiO4 nepheline crystallization in high level waste glasses
            
            
                - Prof.
    John McCloy
            (Washington State University)
            
             
            
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        | 08:30 | Ceramic and Glass-Ceramic Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 10:15)
            
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        | 08:30 | Hot isostatic pressing of ion exchange materials, from the Fukushima and Sellafield sites, to produce ceramic wasteforms.
            
            
                - Prof.
    Neil Hyatt
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
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        | 09:00 | Synthesis and Structure of Novel Oxide Compounds Containing RE = Y, Yb, Gd, Sm, and La and M = Zr, Ti, and Sn
            
            
                - Dr
    Greg Lumpkin
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 09:15 | Synthesis and characterization of brannerite UTi2O6
            
            
                - Dr
    adel mesbah
            (ICSM Marcoule, France)
            
             
            
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        | 09:30 | Synthesis and characterisation of rare Ce3NbO7 compounds for use as nuclear space batteries by neutron powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy
            
            
                - Mr
    Sean Barlow
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
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        | 09:45 | Partitioning of Ce, as a Simulant for Pu, in a Multiphase Ceramic Nuclear Waste Form
            
            
                - Dr
    Zhaoming Zhang
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 10:00 | The Fabrication and Characterisation of Novel Complex Ceramic Oxides (Ln2TiO5) For Polyphase Ceramic Waste-Forms.
            
            
                - Mr
    Robert Aughterson
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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      | 10:15 | --- Morning Tea --- |  
        | 10:45 | Ceramic and Glass-Ceramic Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 12:00)
            
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        | 10:45 | Solubility of the rhabdophane, LnPO4.0.667 H2O (Ln = La to Dy): implications for the long-term stability of monazite matrices.
            
            
                - Dr
    Stéphanie Szenknect
            (ICSM)
            
             
            
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        | 11:15 | Preparation of Ln1-2xCaxThxPO4.nH2O rhabdophane-type as low precursors to monazite-Cheralite ceramics
            
            
                - Dr
    adel mesbah
            (Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, UMR 5257 CEA/CNRS/UM/ENSCM, Site de Marcoule, BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze cedex, France)
            
             
            
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        | 11:30 | Structural incorporation of Cm3+ and Pu3+ in phosphate ceramics with monazite structure.
            
            
                - Dr
    Stefan Neumeier
            (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research - IEK-6: Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety, 52425 Jülich, Germany)
            
             
            
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        | 11:45 | Thorium incorporation in phosphates matrices: the case of xenotime
            
            
                - Dr
    adel mesbah
            (ICSM Marcoule, France)
            
             
            
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        | 08:30 | Partitioning & Transmutation
            
            
            
            (until 10:30)
            
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        | 08:30 | Advanced Materials and Processes for Application to the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
            
            
                - Dr
    Vittorio Luca
            (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica)
            
             
            
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        | 09:00 | Emulsions as a powerful tool to design silica monoliths able to selectively uptake radioactive caesium
            
            
                - Dr
    Jeremy Causse
            (Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM) - UMR5257 - CEA Marcoule)
            
             
            
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        | 09:15 | Highly porous and stable metal–organic frameworks for uranium extraction
            
            
                - Dr
    Michael Carboni
            (CEA)
            
             
            
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        | 09:30 | Pyrolysis and Plasma applied to Nuclear ion Exchange Resins Treatment
            
            
                - Dr
    hugo luis bianchi
            (Gerencia Química, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, CAC, Av. Gral. Paz 1499 (1650) Buenos Aires, Argentina / ECyT, UNSAM, Martín de Irigoyen 3100 (1650) San Martín, Argentina)
            
             
            
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        | 09:45 | Functionalised Titania and Zirconia Materials for Selective Actinide and Lanthanide Separations
            
            
                - Dr
    Jessica Veliscek Carolan
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 10:00 | Inert matrix fuel deployment for reducing the plutonium stockpile in reactors
            
            
                - Prof.
    Claude Degueldre
            (Engineering Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, UK)
            
             
            
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      | 10:30 | --- Morning Tea --- |  
        | 11:00 | Radionclide solubility, speciation, sorption & migration
            
            
            
            (until 12:00)
            
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        | 11:00 | Apparent Diffusion Coefficients Consistent with Sorption Derived Based on Changes in Depth Profiles of Radiocaesium in Soil Contaminated by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Future Prediction of Depth Profile
            
            
                - Prof.
    Haruo Sato
            (Okayama University)
            
             
            
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        | 11:15 | Investigation of C-14 in the CRUD collected on the coolant filter for safety disposal of radioactive waste containing C-14 (I)- C-14 release behavior and thermal decomposition characteristics of crud particles collected from the coolant filter of commercial PWR -
            
            
                - Mr
    Kenichiro Kino
            (Nucler Development Corporation)
            
             
            
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        | 11:30 | Investigation of C-14 in the CRUD collected on the coolant filter for safety disposal of radioactive waste containing C-14 (II) –Chemical alternation of ion exchange resin under simulated condition in primary coolant of PWR –
            
            
                - Dr
    Kotaro Nakata
            (CRIEPI)
            
             
            
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        | 11:45 | Digital autoradiography on C-14 labelled PMMA impregnated rock samples using the Beaver$^{TM}$
            
            
                - Dr
    Mikko Voutilainen
            (Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland)
            
             
            
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        | 10:00 | ANSTO Tour
            
            
            
            (until 15:00)
            
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        | 18:00 | Function
            
            
            
            (until 20:00)
            
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      | 13:00 | --- Lunch --- |  
        | 14:30 | Spent Fuel & Zircaloy Cladding
            
            
            
            (until 16:00)
            
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        | 14:30 | Modelling the Corrosion of Spent Nuclear Fuel Inside a failed Waste Container
            
            
                - Prof.
    David Shoesmith
            (Western University)
            
             
            
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        | 15:00 | NEW ASPECTS OF THE MECHANISM OF HYDROGEN EFFECT ON SPENT FUEL DISSOLUTION
            
            
                - Prof.
    Kastriot Spahiu
            (SKB, Stockholm, Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
            
             
            
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        | 15:15 | Impact of lanthanide elements on the dissolution of uranium dioxide
            
            
                - Prof.
    Nicolas DACHEUX
            (University of Montpellier)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 15:30 | Aqueous leaching of high burnup UO2 fuel under hydrogen conditions
            
            
                - Dr
    Anders Puranen
            (Studsvik Nuclear)
            
             
            
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        | 15:45 | Development of solid state MAS NMR techniques for the characterization of alteration products formed during the dissolution of spent nuclear fuel.
            
            
                - Mr
    Beng Thye Tan
            (University of Cambridge, Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative)
            
             
            
                () |  
      | 16:00 | --- Afternoon Tea --- |  
        | 16:30 | Spent Fuel & Zircaloy Cladding
            
            
            
            (until 18:00)
            
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        | 16:30 | Effect of platinoid elements on the dissolution of uranium dioxide
            
            
                - Prof.
    Nicolas DACHEUX
            (University of Montpellier)
            
             
            
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        | 17:00 | The Corrosion of Copper Nuclear Waste Containers under Deep Geologic Disposal ConditionsF
            
            
                - 
    David Shoesmith
            (Western University)
            
             
            
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        | 17:15 | Radionuclide containing solid phases on the inner surface of a Zircaloy-4 cladding tube
            
            
                - Mr
    Ernesto González-Robles Corrales
            (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 17:30 | Comparison of calculated and measured radionuclide inventory of a Zircaloy-4 cladding tube plenum section
            
            
                - Dr
    Michel Herm
            (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
            
             
            
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        | 17:45 | Activation energy for parabolic corrosion kinetics of Zircaloy-4 by consecutive hydrogen measurement at 30 – 80℃
            
            
                - Dr
    Tomofumi Sakuragi
            (Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center)
            
             
            
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      | 12:15 | --- Lunch --- |  
        | 13:45 | Glass Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 14:45)
            
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        | 13:45 | Alkali tin silicate glass as a wasteform for the immobilisation of plutonium
            
            
                - Ms
    Amber Mason
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
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        | 14:00 | Simplified UK Magnox waste glass alteration layer characterisation using 29Si, 17O and 25Mg NMR techniques
            
            
                - Mr
    Rui Guo
            (University of Cambridge)
            
             
            
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        | 14:15 | Dissolution Behavior of Lead Borate Glass under Simulated Geological Disposal Conditions
            
            
                - Mr
    Atsushi Mukunoki
            (JGC Corporation)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 14:30 | A study to develop a new glass formulation for the immobilisation of HLW containing molybdenum and large amounts of sodium.
            
            
                - Dr
    Clive Brigden
            (ISL, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK.)
            
             
            
                () |  
      | 14:45 | --- Afternoon Tea --- |  
        | 15:15 | Radiation Damage
            
            
            
            (until 17:30)
            
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        | 15:15 | Investigating Local Defect Structures in Nuclear Waste Form Materials
            
            
                - Prof.
    Maik Lang
            (University of Tennessee)
            
             
            
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        | 15:45 | P-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Probe of Plutonium Incorporation and Radiation Damage in Phosphates
            
            
                - Dr
    Ian Farnan
            (University of Cambridge)
            
             
            
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        | 16:00 | Radiation stability study of melt processed and hot isostatically pressed multi-phase ceramic waste forms
            
            
                - Dr
    Ming Tang
            (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 16:15 | Quantification of irradiation induced structural disorder in nuclear waste-form ceramics with µ-luminescence spectroscopy of lanthanides
            
            
                - Dr
    Christoph Lenz
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 16:30 | Ion Beam Irradiation of Ceramic-glass Waste Form at ANSTO
            
            
                - Dr
    Tao Wei
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 16:45 | Ion irradiation used as surrogate for neutron irradiation to understand nuclear graphite evolution during reactor operation: consequences for the long lived radionuclide’s behavior
            
            
                - Dr
    Nelly TOULHOAT
            (CNRS/IN2P3/IPNL)
            
             
            
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        | 17:00 | Ambient-Cured Geopolymers for Low Level Nuclear Waste Storage
            
            
                - Ms
    Isadora Borba da Busch
            (UNSW Sydney)
            
             
            
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        | 17:15 | Radionuclide Sorption Behaviour on Fresh and Aged Cementitious Materials: A Comprehensive Database with 25 Elements
            
            
                - Dr
    Dirk Mallants
            (CSIRO)
            
             
            
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      | 12:00 | --- Lunch --- |  
        | 13:30 | Ceramic and Glass-Ceramic Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 14:45)
            
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        | 13:30 | U-rich ceramics for Spent Fuel or Acidic 99Mo Production ILW
            
            
                - Dr
    Eric R Vance
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
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        | 13:45 | Current advances on titanate-based glass-ceramics for actinide immobilization
            
            
                - Dr
    Yingjie Zhang
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 14:00 | The development of zirconolite glass-ceramics for the immobilisation of Pu-residues in the UK.
            
            
                - Ms
    Stephanie Thornber
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 14:15 | A New Method for Production of Glass-Y2Ti2O7 Pyrochlore
            
            
                - Dr
    Linggen Kong
            (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
            
             
            
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        | 14:30 | Atomistic simulation of interfaces in glass/crystal composites for nuclear waste forms
            
            
                - Dr
    Paul C. M. Fossati
            (Imperial College London)
            
             
            
                () |  
      | 14:45 | --- Afternoon Tea --- |  
        | 15:15 | Ceramic and Glass-Ceramic Wasteforms
            
            
            
            (until 17:15)
            
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        | 15:15 | Efficient remediation of radiodine with silver-functionalized silica aerogel
            
            
                - Dr
    Josef Matyas
            (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
            
             
            
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        | 15:45 | Sodalite waste forms for iodine
            
            
                - Prof.
    John McCloy
            (Washington State University)
            
             
            
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        | 16:00 | Radioactive Iodine-129 Capture in Mixed Cation Sodalites: ab initio modelling
            
            
                - Dr
    EUGENIA KUO
            (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)
            
             
            
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        | 16:15 | New aspects of U(V) chemistry in oxo-materials: from ambient to extreme conditions
            
            
                - Prof.
    Evgeny Alekseev
            (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
            
             
            
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        | 16:45 | Unique capabilities and methods for analysing nuclear waste form materials using ANSTO’s landmark infrastructure
            
            
                - Mr
    Gabriel Murphy
            (University of Sydney)
            
             
            
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        | 17:00 | New route for synthesis of Synroc-like ceramic using non-selective sorbent LHT-9
            
            
                - Ms
    Bella Zubekhina
            (researcher, V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute (KRI), St-Petersburg, Russia)
            
             
            
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        | 18:15 | Poster Session
            
            
            
            (until 20:15)
            
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      | 12:00 | --- Lunch --- |  
        | 13:30 | Repositories & Geological Disposal
            
            
            
            (until 14:45)
            
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        | 13:30 | Effect of thiosulfate on the SCC behavior of carbon steel welds exposed to concrete pore water under anoxic conditions
            
            
                - Mr
    Sebastien CAES
            (SCK-CEN)
            
             
            
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        | 14:00 | Characterisation of the UK cement backfill material pre- and post- groundwater leaching experiments
            
            
                - Ms
    Rita Vasconcelos
            (University of Sheffield)
            
             
            
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        | 14:15 | Porosity distribution in a heterogeneous clay-rich fault core
            
            
                - Mr
    Ville Nenonen
            (University of Helsinki)
            
             
            
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        | 14:30 | Behaviour of sand-bentonite buffer material of deep geological repository under high confining pressure
            
            
                - Dr
    Janaka J. Kumara
            (Department of Civil Engineering, Meijo University, Japan)
            
             
            
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      | 14:45 | --- Afternoon Tea --- |  
        | 15:15 | Repositories & Geological Disposal
            
            
            
            (until 16:00)
            
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        | 15:15 | Effect of Carbonate on Lanthanides Migration Behavior in Compacted Bentonite
            
            
                - Prof.
    Kazuya Idemitsu
            (Kyushu university)
            
             
            
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        | 15:30 | Identification of chemical form of stable carbon released from type 304 and 316 stainless-steel powders in alkaline solution and in acidic solution under low-oxygen condition
            
            
                - Dr
    Ryo Nakabayashi
            (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
            
             
            
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        | 15:45 | Best Practice in the Management of Site Investigations for Geological Disposal Facilities
            
            
                - Dr
    Paul Degnan
            (Catalystra)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 16:00 | Special topic on Tc and Re
            
            
            
            (until 17:00)
            
                () |  
        | 16:00 | Comparison of thermal expansion of Tc and Re salts.
            
            
                - Prof.
    Gordon Thorogood
            (ANSTO)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 16:15 | Alkali technetium oxides and their relation to Tc loading in nuclear waste glasses
            
            
                - Prof.
    John McCloy
            (Washington State University)
            
             
            
                () |  
        | 16:30 | Tc reduction by bacteria from soda lake
            
            
                - Prof.
    Konstantin German
            (A.N.Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences)
            
             
            
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        | 16:45 | Unusual redox neighborhood in technetium compounds
            
            
                - Prof.
    Konstantin German
            (A.N.Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences)
            
             
            
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        | 19:00 | Function
            
            
            
            (until 22:30)
            
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