2016 MRS Fall Meeting
Symposium ES6-Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
The safe management and disposal of radioactive wastes, from civil and defence nuclear operations, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, continues to be a challenge of global significance. This MRS symposium, first held in 1978, has emerged as the premier international meeting to address the fundamental and applied science of materials in the context of nuclear waste management. Appropriate to the 40th anniversary of this symposium, the overarching theme will be retrospectives and perspectives in the state of the art, to address the key question of: how far have we come and where are we going next?
This 40th symposium will focus on the treatment and disposal of low- and high-level nuclear wastes from commercial power generation, fuel reprocessing, and production of materials for defence. Technologies for interim, short-term, and long-term storage and disposal are of interest, including mature processes as well as new and innovative technologies. Waste form development, including glass, ceramic, metallic, and composite waste forms, will be included, along with methods of processing challenging waste constituents, such as actinides and noble metals. Waste form modelling, performance testing, and advanced characterization techniques will be discussed. Advances in Engineered barrier system (EBS) properties, interactions between engineered and geological systems, radiation effects, chemistry and transport of radionuclides, and long-term predictions of repository performance, will also be discussed.
Topics will include:
- Waste form materials
- Geological disposal of nuclear wastes
- National waste management programs
- Cross-cutting topics
Invited Speakers:
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_0 (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_1 (Khlopin Radium Institute, Russian Federation)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_2 (Pohang University of Science & Technology, USA)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_3 (Savannah River Remediation, USA)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_4 (Savannah River National Laboratory, USA)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_5 (Catholic University of America, USA)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_6 (Washington State University, USA)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_7 (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_8 (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternative, France)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_9 (Svensk Kärnbränslehantering Aktiebolag, Sweden)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_10 (ANSTO, Australia)
- ES6_Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management_11 (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)