Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization Division

Upcoming Meetings

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2010 ANS Topical Meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination and Reutilization & Technology Expo – Idaho Falls, Idaho, September 26-29, 2010
    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

  • 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.