Appendix B
Workshop on Waste Form Technology and Performance
The Lecture Room
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Building 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20418
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 | |
8:15-8:30 am | Welcome and Introduction |
Milt Levenson and Rod Ewing | |
Session I: | International Perspectives |
8:30-9:00 am | Glass and spent fuel corrosion, coupling of waste forms to the near field, and long-term models of performance |
Berndt Grambow, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associees (SUBATECH), France | |
9:00–9:30 am | Cementatious waste forms and barriers |
Fred Glasser, University of Aberdeen, U.K. | |
9:30-10:00 am | Combined inert matrix fuels and related waste forms Claude Degueldre, Paul Sheerer Institute, Switzerland |
10:00-10:30 am | Break |
10:30-11:00 am | Ceramic and phosphate glass waste forms and cold crucible technology |
Sergey Stefanovsky, SIA Radon, Russia | |
11:00-11:30 am | Overview of CEA’s and French initiatives related to waste forms |
Etienne Vernaz, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, France | |
11:30 am-12:00 pm | Overview of Australia/ANSTO initiatives related to waste forms |
Kath Smith and Bruce Begg, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Australia | |
12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch |
Session II: | Select Domestic Issues |
1:00-1:30 pm | Computational methods applied to the design and evaluation of waste forms |
Bill Weber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
1:30-2:00 pm | Overview of waste forms and near-field interactions in a performance assessment perspective |
Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
2:00-2:30 pm | Matching waste forms to waste processing strategies |
Mark Peters, Argonne National Laboratory | |
2:30-3:00 pm | Impact of waste forms on overall repository performance assessment |
Peter Swift, Sandia National Laboratories | |
3:00-3:15 pm | Break |
3:15-3:45 pm | Overview of the Vitreous State Laboratory and geopolymer development |
Ian Pegg and Werner Lutze, Catholic University of America |