Program Overview

• Keynote: Dr. Erica Bickford - USDOE
  • Consent-Based Approach to Siting Spent Fuel Management Facilities in the US
• Plenary: The Honorable Annie Caputo, Commissioner, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Chernobyl Disaster: Modern Problems and Perspectives
• Challenges in Clearance
  • Clearance is the most used option to minimize the volume of radioactive waste. Let's discuss main future challenges in clearance
• Finland's Approach to Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel
  • Pasi Tuohimaa - Communications Manager, Posiva Oy
• Transitioning the Idaho National Lab: A Successful Story
  • Transition from a Department of Energy (OE) closure site to the nation's lead laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment - INL's success story
• Facility Decontamination and Dismantling: Technologies, Strategies and Challenges
  • Discussing the topic of Facility Decontamination and Dismantling with three contributions from Ansaldo Nucleare, European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) and SCK CEN: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
• Finland – The Path Towards the World's first DGR
  • Successes on the path to Finland's readiness to operate the world's first deep geological repository

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This Track includes all aspects of Decommissioning, Decontamination & Demolition (D/D&D) involving robotics, sensing technologies and remote handling of radioactive materials and waste.

 

This Track includes all aspects of D&D from shutdown and planning to license termination and/or green-field, including characterization, decontamination, dismantling, demolition, waste handling, final survey, and associated new technology development for both government and commercial nuclear power and non-power facilities. It also includes decommissioning technologies and program strategies worldwide, as well as the regulatory aspects.

This track includes the experiences of incidents/accidents at nuclear facilities or transporting or handling of high level nuclear materials and radioactive waste. Sessions will include updates on Chernobyl and Fukushima as well as other major project updates.

This Track covers all long-lived alpha/TRU waste, SNF, UNF and HLW operations from generation and storage through characterization, treatment, packaging, transportation and disposal. It also covers associated technology development and deployment; recycling/reprocessing strategies and technologies; disposal and operating facility performance and risk assessment, and the impacts of directly associated regulations and standards.

The LLW, ILW, MW, and HW Track encompasses: Operations from generation through treatment and disposal; Technology development, demonstration, and deployment, waste minimization, waste characterization and analysis, effluent monitoring, waste form and facility performance assessment, regulations and standards; packaging, transportation and disposal from for all types of facilities from hospitals, accelerators, research reactors, nuclear power plants, fuel fabrication, government facilities, etc. This track also includes radioactive materials, articles, consumer products and uranium or thorium ores as well as "Greater than Class C - LLW".

This Track includes all activities associated with the assessment, cleanup, and closure of contaminated sites. The topics will explore how to restore and protect human health and the environment through investigation, cleanup, closure, and long-term site management. The focus is on above and below ground remedial actions and cleanup activities including site inspection, characterization and evaluation; sampling and analysis; environmental risk assessment, compliance monitoring; resolving regulatory issues that impact cleanup; aquifer and soil remediation; managing waste resulting from cleanup activities; remedial design and implementation; accelerating cleanup through technological or process improvements; closure; and legacy management/ long-term stewardship. It covers all waste types including radium, uranium byproducts and mill tailings.

This Track includes broad, general topics that are not suited for one of the other six technical tracks. Suitable topics include public involvement; crosscutting issues, policies, programs and technologies; and activities and programs focused on global partnering. In addition, papers discussing issues that involve human resources development are included. Presentations of EM waste programs and policies at the national, multi-national and international level are particularly encouraged.

This Track includes broad, general topics that are not suited for one of the other six technical tracks. Suitable topics include overall environmental management; strategic planning, management and cultural issues; the development, integration, control, and implementation of risk-reduction methodologies, and approaches to education and training are invited. In addition, papers discussing issues that involve health & safety issues are included.

This Track acknowledge the need to encourage students and early career engineers to pursue studies aligned with the topics of ICEM and to begin to network with students and engineers in other parts of the world. This year ICEM is requesting that students from all nations report on their research at our meeting. ESD/NED will facilitate those reports by providing travel support for some students and early career engineers to attend the meeting and by arranging events that will permit students to develop professional and social ties. This Track will include a Poster Session & Contest as well as a Student Project Competition.

This Track is designed for individuals (and organizations) to discuss and highlight the research and development and activities that they are undertaking in the management and remediation of radioactive materials and wastes.