Conference Program
 
NUCLEAR WASTE & ENERGY

July 16-21, 2000
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH

Chairs:
Kenneth L. Mossman & Jordi Bruno

Vice Chair:
Gregory R. Choppin

The Financial Support of the Following Organizations is Gratefully Acknowledged:

Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd.
National Science Foundation
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory


(Sunday 16 July 2000 PM)KEY NOTE PRESENTATIONS
Discussion Leader: Jordi Bruno (QuantiSci, Spain)
  • Peter Lyons [representing Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM)] "Progress on nuclear technology issues"
  • Ingemar Grenthe (Royal Institute of Technology-Sweden) "How do the recent advances in actinide chemistry and molecular dynamics contribute to the design of waste management alternatives?"
  • Richard Setlow (Brookhaven) "How can recent advances in the molecular biology of cancer contribute to our understanding of radiation risks at low doses?"
(Monday 17 July 2000 AM)Health Effects-Molecular and Cell Studies
Discussion Leader: Tim Jorgensen (Georgetown)
  • Les Braby (Texas A&M) "Cell communication and effective target size for carcinogenesis"
  • Al Fornace (NIH) "The use of stress gene responses and functional genomics to assess radiation exposure"
  • Charles Geard (Columbia) "Cell transformation by single alpha particles"
(Monday 17 July 2000 PM)Partitioning and Transmutation Techniques
Discussion Leader: Alan Waltar (Texas A&M)
  • Rodney Ewing (Michigan) "Source term partitioning and the development of waste forms"
  • Greg vanTuyle (Los Alamos) "Challenges associated with accelerator-driven systems for transmutation of long-lived nuclear wastes"
(Tuesday 18 July 2000 AM)Radionuclide Transport
Discussion Leader: Gilbert Eggermont (MOL, Belgium)
  • Geert Volkaert (MOL, Belgium) "Integrating laboratory and in situ migration data in performance assessment for the Mol Clay Site"
  • Heino Nitsche (Lawrence Berkeley) "Actinides at geologic and microbial interfaces"
  • James Davis (US Geological Survey) "Adsorption, speciation and transport of Uranium(VI)"
(Tuesday 18 July 2000 PM)Young Scientists Session
Discussion Leader: Art Janata (Georgia Tech)
  • Oleg Egorov (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) "Automating analytical separations in radiochemistry"
  • Rebecca Chamberlin (Los Alamos) "Technetium chemistry in aging alkaline tank wastes"
  • Daniel F. Caputo (MIT) "The role of chemical speciation in radioactive waste management"
  • Gabriele Fioni (CEA France) "Experimental study of the transmutation of actinides in high intensity neutron fluxes"
(Wednesday 19 July 2000 AM)Advanced Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Discussion Leader: Jerry Cuttler (AECL, Canada)
  • Peter Boczar (AECL, Canada) "Advanced nuclear fuel cycles for heavy water moderated power reactors"
  • Paul Chodak (Los Alamos) "Management of global plutonium inventories using light water reactors"
  • Mike Todosow (Brookhaven) "A novel Thorium-based fuel concept with enhanced proliferation resistance"
(Wednesday 19 July 2000 PM)Health Effects-Organismic and Population Studies
Discussion Leader: Tony Brooks (Washington State)
  • Bob Ullrich (Texas-Galveston) "Mechanisms of radiation carcinogenesis"
  • John Boice (Intl Epidemiology Inst) "Current and future research in radiation epidemiology"
(Thursday 20 July 2000 AM)Risk Communication and Perception
Discussion Leader: Arland Carsten (Brookhaven)
  • Richard Peters (Center for Risk Communication) "Challenges of communicating radiation issues"
  • James Flynn (UC-Santa Barbara) "Radiation risks, decisions, and risk communication"
  • Roger Kasperson (Clark) "International perspectives on radioactive waste management: Engaging the future"
(Thursday 20 July 2000 PM)Radionuclide Mobility and Fate
Discussion Leader: Roy Gephart (Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
  • Andrew Felmy (Pacific Northwest Laboratory) "Fluid and contaminant transport in subsurface systems: Accelerated progress in quantitative analysis"
  • Brian Looney (Savannah River) "Characterization of contamination source terms"

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