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Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization Division
Upcoming Meetings
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Organizer |
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Dennis Farrigno |
Future of Decommissioning Funds |
With the current Stock market decline from Oct’08, the decommissioning funds for the nuclear utilities have suffered in a decline of equity. For some nuclear facility D&D funds, this may present an issue in that the D&D funds are underfunded and may have issues in correcting the funding level. In some cases this is similar to much of the housing and commercial real estate markets that are in a negative equity basis. |
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Jim Byrne |
TMI 30 Years Later |
It is 30 years since the accident at Three Mile Island with the Nuclear Industry beginning to emerge from the doldrums caused by the accident it is appropriate to look back at the causes and lessons learned and the remind the new generation of engineers and operators that things can go wrong. This session will relate the history of the accident, the lessons learned and how they are being applied to the next generation of facilities. |
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Nadia Glucksberg |
Finding Common Ground with Multiple Regulatory Agencies |
Each regulatory agency has specific criteria to reach Site Closure under D&D. This session will compare the different requirements of federal and state agencies and explore how they overlap and/or contradict each other and how to find common ground. This session will also discuss potential shifts in how the new administration may impact these regulations. Panelists will include NRC, EPA and state regulators as well as representatives from industry. |
- 2010 ANS Annual Meeting, June 13-17, 2010 in San Diego, CA General Chair Ross T. Ridenoure (Southern California Edison)
Currently planned DD&R panel sessions at this meeting are listed below.
Organizer
Topic
Summary
Erhard Koehler
Historic Preservation Considerations in Nuclear Facility Decommissioning
What is Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, and how does it affect decommissioning of nuclear facilities? If your commercial facility is NRC-licensed, and approaching 50 years old, you will be subject to Section 106. If your facility is federally-owned, you will be subject to Section 106 regardless of age. Panel experts from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Federal Preservation Institute will discuss the challenges and opportunities that present themselves in the Section 106 process.
John Bowen
Unique Tooling
TBD
Hot Topics and Emerging Issues
As the Decommissioning Industry continues to mature and gain experience at both commercial and government nuclear facilities, many of the obstacles facing decommissioning have been, or are being successfully resolved. However, new challenges in both field decommissioning as well as regulatory and management of D&D projects will continue to arise. This session will address ongoing challenges (hot topics) as well as address emerging issues that can affect future decommissioning activities. The intent is to include industry leaders from the regulatory side, as well as commercial and government decommissioning project executives or project managers successfully met.
- 2010 ANS Topical Meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization & Technology Expo – Idaho Falls, Idaho, September 26-29, 2010
http://ddrtopical2010.org
General Chair: Jim Floerke (Idaho Completion Project); Program Chair James Byrne (Consultant)
Co-Sponsored by the DD&R and FCWM. The program will include commercial, government, and international project updates and technology developments in the areas of decommissioning, waste management, site closure and legacy management.
Recently Completed Meetings
- 2009 ANS Annual Meeting “Advancing Nuclear Technology for a Greater Tomorrow”, June 14 – 18, 2009 in Atlanta, GA.
General Chair: Jeffrey T. Gasser, Southern Nuclear Operating Company
DD&R Sessions currently planned at this meeting are:- Nuclear Material Stabilization
- Hot Topics and Emerging Issues
- The History of Manhattan Era and Early Nuclear Power Facilities: Capturing the Historical Record While Performing Needed D&D. Redevelopment of Decommissioned Facilities
- Groundwater Protection Initiative
- D&D at Commercial Reactor Facilities
- Army Corps/FUSRAP D&D. Commercial Non-Reactor D&D
- Nuclear Material Stabilization
- 2008 ANS Winter Meeting and Technology Expo "Talk About Nuclear Differently: A Good Story Untold" November 9-13, 2008 in Reno, NV
General Chair: David J. Hill, Idaho National Laboratory
- 2008 ANS Annual Meeting "Nuclear Science and Technology: Now Arriving on Main Street" June 8 - 12, 2008 in Anaheim, CA
General Chair: Richard Rosenblum, Southern California Edison
Includes embedded topical meetings of 1) International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP ’08), 2) Nuclear Fuels and Structural Materials for the Next Generation Nuclear Reactors, and 3) Isotopes for Medicine and Industry
- International Conference on Research Reactor Utilization, Modernization, Refurbishment, Safety, Fuel Cycle, Decommissioning and Waste Management
Vienna, Austria
November 5-9, 2007
- 2007 ANS Topical Meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization & Technology Expo - Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 16-19, 2007
"Capturing Decommissioning Lessons Learned"
This topical meetings had approximately 120 paper presented and 25 vendors represented. Lessons Learned from this meeting are available at DD&R2007LessonsLearned. The division expresses it thanks to General Chair Joe Carignan, Technical Program Chair Jim Byrne, and the rest of the organizing committee who made this meeting a great success.