Annual Waste Management Symposium (WM2015)

Phoenix, Arizona, USA 15-19 March 2015 Volume 1 of 8

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TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME 1 SESSION WASTE MANAGEMENT SYMPOSIUM 2015 PLENARY - 001 WM 2015 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Virginie Schwarz

Global Nuclear Waste Management: Past, Present, and Future .................................................................................................................. 5 James Taylor

SESSION PANEL: HOT TOPICS IN US DOE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - 002 Site Restoration................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Mark Gilbertson

Increasing Employee Engagement To Enhance EM Mission Delivery ...................................................................................................... 24 Melody Bell

Acquisition and Project Management............................................................................................................................................................ 30 Jack Surash

Waste Management .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Frank Marcinowski

Tank Waste and Nuclear Material ................................................................................................................................................................. 39 Kenneth Picha

EM FY 2015 Waste Management Conference .............................................................................................................................................. 45 Connie Flohr

SESSION PANEL: FEATURED COUNTRY FRANCE - 003 Parliament's Role in the Establishment of the Institutional Framework................................................................................................... 49 Jean-Yves Le Deaut

Management of Radioactive Waste Legal Framework in France............................................................................................................... 52 Virginie Schwarz

Radioactive Waste Management and Dismantling Provisions in France .................................................................................................. 56 Jean Luc Lachaume

National Radioactive Waste Management Agency ....................................................................................................................................... 61 François-Michel Gonnot

WMS Panel........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 73 Gerard Cote

French Nuclear Society .................................................................................................................................................................................... 83 Valerie Faudon

CEA Embassy Conuslors Network................................................................................................................................................................. 88 Axel Cruau

SESSION PANEL: INTERAGENCY COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE IN PERFORMANCE AND RISK ASSESSMENT - 004 Status Update on the 10 CFR Part 61 Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Rulemaking .................................................................. 89 Gregory Suber

Examples of International Activities .............................................................................................................................................................. 95 Roger Seitz

Effective Risk Communication ..................................................................................................................................................................... 100 Joanna Burger

SESSION 005 – A CURRENT PERSPECTIVE ON HLW DISPOSAL Status of HLW Disposal in the USA and Rational, Progressive, Paths Forward Based Upon Lessons Learned in the USA and Abroad Since 1973 - 15103............................................................................................................................................................ 103 Leif G Eriksson, George Dials

Searching for Science in the Past and Present Discussion on Commingling Policy in the US - 15083 ................................................. 119 Elaina Anderson, Bret Leslie

Discussion on the Merits of Deep Borehole Disposal, Especially with Recycling - 15389 ...................................................................... 128 Sven Bader

Long-Term Performance of Engineered Barriers for High-Level Waste Repositories - 15358 ............................................................ 137 Irina Gaus, Lawrence Johnson, Klaus Wieczorek, Juan Carlos Mayor, Patrick Sellin, Annika Schäfers, Sandra Fahland

SESSION 006 – CONTINUED EFFORTS TO RESOLVE DOE HANFORD HLW TANK AY-102 Hanford Double-Shell Tank AY-102 Radioactive Waste Leak Investigation Update - 15302 .............................................................. 149 Dennis Washenfelder, Jeremy Johnson

Hanford Double-Shell Tank Extent-of-Condition Construction Review - 15498.................................................................................... 160 Theodore Venetz, Travis Barnes, Kayle Boomer, Jason Gunter, Dan Baide, Jeremy Johnson

Disposition of Hanford Tank Waste Sludge from Tank 241-AY-102 and the 241-A/241-AX Farm Tanks - 15298 ........................... 176 Paul Certa, Mark Gerboth, Linda Eslin, Riley Yarbrough, Albin Pajunen, P. Steve Schaus

241-AY-102 Leak Detection Pit Drain Line Visual Inspection - 15678 .................................................................................................... 191 Theodore Venetz, Kayle Boomer, Jason Engeman, Jason Gunter, John Garfield, Brandon Vazquez, Cameron Joslyn

SESSION 007 – SNF ANALYSIS AND DATA MANAGEMENT Design Development and Testing of a Combined Neutron and Gamma Ray Assay System for Measuring Fissile Material in Fuel and Waste Items - 15340................................................................................................................................................... 207 Kevin Burke, Darius Ancius, Asam Chaudry, Richard Gunn, Marc Looman, David Maina, John Mason, Douglas Paton, Antony Towner, Graeme Wood

Streamlining Analysis Capabilities for SNF Management - 15490........................................................................................................... 217 Kaushik Banerjee, John Scaglione, Robert Lefebvre, Georgeta Radulescu, Kevin Robb

Applying Fast Calorimetry Analysis on Spent Fuel Calorimeter - 15620................................................................................................ 227 Henrik Liljenfeldt, Peter Santi

Estimation of SNF Amount from Various Scenarios of Power Consumption Prediction in South Korea - 15394 ............................. 242 Suhong Lee, Jooho Whang

SESSION 008 – LLW/ILW WASTE CHARACTERIZATION – PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES Why Accredit ISO/CEI 17025 a Nuclear Waste Management Laboratory? - 15112 ............................................................................. 250 Jean Chevillon, Raphaël Oddou

Requalification of Historical ILW for the Repository KONRAD on Basis of NDA and Re-evaluated Nuclide Vectors - 15289................................................................................................................................................................................................ 256 Felix Himmerkus, Lothar Dörr, Ralf Steiner

Validation of Numerical Simulations of Activation by Neutron Flux - 15038......................................................................................... 262 Sylvain Janski

Radioactive Cs Behavioral Analysis in the Incinerator at Garbage Incineration - 15031 ..................................................................... 270 Noritake Sugitsue, Toshinori Kouchi, Toshihiro Takami, Shinichiro Yanase, Toru Hyakutake, Degang Rong, Hiroshi Takeda, Kaoru Yokoyama, Nobuo Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Ohara, Kenya Kuwagi

SESSION 009 – PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS AND WASTE Impact of Different Standard Type A7A Drum Closure-Ring Practices on Gasket Contraction and Bolt Closure Distance - 15621 .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 278 Edward Ketusky, Paul Blanton, John Bobbitt

The Future of RADCALC- The Radioactive Material and Waste Transportation Software Program - 15154 ................................. 288 Ashok Kapoor, Larry Stuhl, Connie Jones, D. Dean Newton, Christian Solum

SESSION 010 – THE AGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT – CRITICAL INVESTMENTS/ALTERNATIVES TO GET TO THE FINISH LINE Project Acceleration through the Application of Innovation on the Pile Fuel Storage Pond at Sellafield - 15060 ............................. 296 Derek Carlisle

Inspection and Assessment of the H-Canyon Ventilation System at the Savannah River Site - 15385 ................................................ 306 Jay Ray, Bobbie Gilliam, Bill Giddings

SESSION 011 – SUSTAINABLE REMEDIATION PROCESSES: REMEDIES, SUCCESS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Modeling and Quantitative Assessment of Green and Sustainable Remediation Options for the M1 Air Stripper System at DOE SRS - 15660 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 320 David Roelant, Ralph Nichols, Natalia Duque

Land Use Planning Scenarios for Contaminated Land: Comparing EPA, State Federal, and Tribal Scenarios 15642 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 335 Michael Gochfeld, Joanna Burger, Charles Powers, David Kosson

Biomass for Bioenergy and Biochar Applications - 15653......................................................................................................................... 351 Omar Al-Qudah, Majed El-Dweik

An Approach to Evaluating and Monitoring Ecological Resources for Sustainability on DOE Remediation Sites: Hanford as a Case Study - 15524 .................................................................................................................................................................. 383 Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld, Jennifer Salisbury, Amoret Bunn

SESSION PANEL: IAEAS INITIATIVE TO BIULD UP AN INTERNATIONAL COALITION TO ADVANCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ER AND D&D PROGRAMS CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES - 012 IAEAs Strategy to Build International Coalition for D&ER Programs, CIDER Project: Overview and Objectives ........................ 396 Horst Monken Fernandes, Patrick O'Sullivan

Challenges to Implement the Decommissioning and Remediation Project for the Pocos de Caldas Production Site ........................ 406 Delcy Azevedo Py Junior

The Remediation Activity Planning at the Former Legacy Site "Pridneprovskiy Chemical Plant".................................................... 412 Viktor Riazantsev

Challenges of Mine Remediation Programmes In Developing Countries A Life Cycle Perspective .................................................... 422 Christian Kunze

SESSION PANEL: FEATURE COUNTRY FRANCE - 013 EDF Decommissioning and Waste Management ........................................................................................................................................ 425 Dominique Dapei

Scientific Support for Nuclear Decommissioning in France...................................................................................................................... 430 Christophe Behar

Efficient Solutions for a Responsible Management of Radioactive Materials and Waste ..................................................................... 438 Dominique Mockly

Waste Management - Industrial Activities .................................................................................................................................................. 443 Pierre-Marie Abadie

SESSION PANEL: FEATURED COUNTRY FRANCE - 014 CIGEO Future French HW and IL-LL Repository ................................................................................................................................... 449 Pierre-Marie Abadie

SESSION PANEL: EFFECTIVENESS OF NATIONAL LABORATORIES - 015 The Role of the National Nuclear Laboratories UK Nuclear Energy Policy and the Role of R&D...................................................... 461 Nick Hanigan

SESSION PANEL: US DOE WIPP: LESSONS LEARNED AND RETURN TO OPERATIONS FOLLOWING 2014 OPERATIONAL INCIDENTS - 016 Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Recovery Update.............................................................................................................................................. 468 Sean Dunagan

WIPP Recovery "It's All About Safety"...................................................................................................................................................... 472 Jim Blankenhorn

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Recovery Update - Underground Ventilation System ................................................................................. 479 Mark Senderling

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant TRU Waste Characterization......................................................................................................................... 486 J. R. Stroble

TRU Waste Disposition at LANL and Plans for Resumption ................................................................................................................... 489 David Nickless

Impacts of Delaying Transuranic Waste Disposition and Plans for Resumption ................................................................................... 494 Terrel Spears

WIPP - Idaho Impacts ................................................................................................................................................................................... 498 Ben Roberts

WIPP Suspension Impacts at Oak Ridge..................................................................................................................................................... 501 Laura Wilkerson

SESSION PANEL: HOT TOPICS IN US COMMERCIAL LLW MANAGEMENT - 017 Selected Key Topics in US Commercial LLW Management - The PA DEP Tenorm Study ................................................................. 508 Andrew Lombardo

TENORM Disposal Options in North Dakota............................................................................................................................................. 518 Dale Patrick

The History of TLLRWDCC ........................................................................................................................................................................ 541 Brandon Hurley

Hot Topics in Commercial Low-Level Waste Management ...................................................................................................................... 549 Larry Camper

SESSION 018 – SELECTED KEY TOPICS IN US COMMERCIAL LLW MANAGEMENT A Collaborative Regulatory Effort for Sealed Source Disposal - 15735................................................................................................... 561 Daniel Shrum, Rusty Lundberg

A Proposed Solution to the Challenges of Disposal of Greater than Class C Low-Level Radioactive Waste - 15172 ........................ 566 Scott Kirk, Rick Jacobi

Mega Saltstone Disposal Units at the Savannah River Site - 15322.......................................................................................................... 579 Keith Harp, Carl Lanigan

SESSION PANEL: US DOE ETTP ACCELERATED GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT (GDP) CLEANUP APPROACHES - 019 Accelerated Gaseous Diffusion Plant Cleanup Approaches ...................................................................................................................... 587 Susan Cange

Accelerated Gaseous Diffusion Plant Cleanup Approaches ...................................................................................................................... 592 Kenneth Rueter

D&D Planning and Execution Approaches ................................................................................................................................................. 597 Wendy Cain

Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Contracting Approach........................................................................................................................................ 604 Heather Cloar

Partnering For Success .................................................................................................................................................................................. 609 Kevin Adkisson

SESSION PANEL: BEYOND US DOE CLEANUP - 020 Life After Cleanup HQ Take Aways ............................................................................................................................................................ 614 Carmelo Melendez

Partnering for Success Case Studies: Industrial Repositioning of Surplus Real Property.................................................................... 615 Ralph Conner

Beyond DOE Clean Up ETTP....................................................................................................................................................................... 622 David Adler

Hanford: Beyond Cleanup............................................................................................................................................................................. 629 Stacy Charboneau

SESSION 021 – D&D OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES (NON-POWER GENERATING FACILITIES/LARGE AND SMALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES) CEA’s Decommissioning Policy and Strategies: What is at Stake? Lessons Learned & Feedback Experience 15013 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 639 Jean-Guy Nokhamzon, Laurence Piketty

CEA Decommissioning & Clean-Up Activities: Legacy Waste Management and Lessons Learned - 15506 ...................................... 654 Didier Dall’Ava, Anne Terlain, Fanny Balbaud, Lionel Gosmain

Decommissioning Concepts for the Norwegian Nuclear Research Facilities Halden and Kjeller - 15022........................................... 666 Niklas Bergh, Per Lidar, Niklas Leveau, Jan Nordin, Tommi Huutoniemi, Gunnar Hedin, Arne Larsson

SESSION PANEL: GLOBAL EMERGING ISSUES AND STRATEGIES: WHY IMMEDIATE DISMANTLING IS BEING PREFERRED OVER DEFERRED DISMANTLING - 022 Global Emerging Issues and Strategies Focus: Why Immediate Dismantling is Being Preferred Over Deferred Dismantling ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 674 Jas Devgun, Jeff Hays, Claudio Pescatore, Bruce Hinckley, Tom LaGuardia, Laurence Piketty, Al Freitag

Commercial Decommissioning - A Vendors Global Perspective .............................................................................................................. 682 Jeff Hays

Decommissioning and Dismantling at NEA................................................................................................................................................. 688 Claudio Pescatore

Global Emerging Issues and Strategies: Why Immediate Dismantling is Being Preferred Over Deferred Dismantling ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 694 Bruce Hinkley

Why Immediate NP D&D is Being Preferred over Deferred Dismantling .............................................................................................. 697 Thomas Laguardia

CEAS DECOMMISSIONING Strategies & Options - Immediate, Deferred, Entombment................................................................. 703 Laurence Piketty

SESSION 023 – APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE D&D TECHNOLOGIES – PART 1 OF 3 An Evaluation of Nearest Neighbor Averaging’s Improvements to the Measurement Sensitivity of Wide-Area Radiological Scanning Instruments - 15560 ................................................................................................................................................ 711 Mark Miller, Tyler Alecksen, Patrick Beall, Robert Miltenberger, Sean Fournier, Mike Schierman

Radionuclide Stochastic Distribution in Irradiated Graphite - 15206 ..................................................................................................... 726 Bernard Poncet

Enrichment of C-14 on Surface Deposits of Oldbury Reactor Graphite Investigated with the Use of Magnetic Sector Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - 15076 ..................................................................................................................................... 734 Liam Payne, Peter Heard, Thomas Scott

Mobile Platform for Radiological Characterization of Sites Under or After Decommissioning - 15139 ............................................. 744 Vincent Goudeau, Noémie Galet, Didier Dubot, Julien Attiogbe, Emilie Aubonnet, Jean-Yves Lalanne

Information Management During Decommissioning - 15613.................................................................................................................... 758 Per Lidar, Kjell Westerberg

The Potential of High-Frequency Forced Pulsed Waterjet for Nuclear Decommissioning - 15367...................................................... 768 Alex Jenkins, Andrew Tieu, Wenzhuo Yan, Bruce Daniels, Meisheng Xu, Mohan Vijay

Management of HL Solid Deposits for the D&D of UP1 Reprocessing Plant - Retrieval and Treatment Scenarios 15295 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 780 Eric Cantrel, Samuel Blanchard, Christophe Girold, Anne Courtadon

Boiling Water Reactor High Flow Filter System - 15683........................................................................................................................... 795 Charles Jensen, Gary A. Benda, David Schlosser

VOLUME 2 SESSION 24 – HLW DOUBLE SHELL TANKS STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY Double-Shell Tank Integrity Program - 15533............................................................................................................................................ 807 Kayle Boomer, Jeremy Johnson, John Garfield, Jim Castleberry, Dan Baide

Hanford Double-Shell Tank Ultrasonic Test Examinations - 15287 ........................................................................................................ 823 Allan Pardini, Crystal Girardot, Kayle Boomer

In-service Inspection of Radioactive Waste Tanks at the Savannah River Site - 15410......................................................................... 837 Bruce Wiersma, Matthew Maryak, Stephen Harris, James Elder, Lindsay Baxter

Hanford Double-Shell Tank Corrosion Testing Program - 15341............................................................................................................ 849 Amie Feero, Jeremy Johnson, Kayle Boomer

SESSION 025 – SINGLE SHELL TANK STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY Progress of the Enhanced Hanford Single Shell Tank (SST) Integrity Project - 15497......................................................................... 865 Theodore Venetz, Kayle Boomer, Dennis Washenfelder, Jim Castleberry, Jeremy Johnson

Hanford Single-Shell Tank Sidewall Coring Project - 15548 .................................................................................................................... 878 Thomas Misiak, Theodore Venetz, Marty Gardner, Mark Brown, Jeremy Johnson

A Summary of the Hanford Single-Shell Tank Structural Analysis of Record - 15526 ......................................................................... 893 Ken Johnson, John Deibler, Naveen Karri, Scott Sanborn, George Abatt, Ken Stoops, Larry Julyk, Brian Larsen

Case Study in Corporate Knowledge Recovery: Hanford Tank Farms Miscellaneous Underground Waste Storage Tanks - 15344 .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 908 Dennis Washenfelder, Krena Duncan, Travis Barnes, Jerry Turknett, Jeremy Johnson

SESSION 026 – OPERATING EXPERIENCE IN THE TREATMENT OF LLW/ILW Installation and Operation of the Geomelt® In Container Vitrification in NNL Central Lab’s Active Rig Hall at Sellafield - 15328 ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 917 Keith Witwer, Eric Dysland, Steve Woosley, Charlie Scales, John McGibbon

Encapsulation of ILW Metals by Melting Technology - 15360 ................................................................................................................. 924 Per Lidar, Arne Larsson, Maria Lindberg

Conditioning of Pu-Containing Radioactive Waste Generated in the Hotlab: Where Are We Now - 15400 ...................................... 938 Joachim Mueth

Treatment of Contaminated Non-Iron Metals for Clearance - 15361...................................................................................................... 947 Arne Larsson, Maria Lindberg, Per Lidar

Geopolymer Solidification Technology Approved by Czech / Slovak Nuclear Authority to Immobilise NPP Resins and Sludge Waste - 15555 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 952 Joanne Hill, Milena Prazska, Mayur Jagatia

Extending the Lifetime of Mixer Paddles Used in the Production of a Low-level Radioactive Cementitious Waste Form - 15624 ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 964 Marissa Reigel, Mark Fowley, Erich Hansen, Satish (Sam) Shah

SESSION 027 – ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN ENVIRONMENTS Site Closeout of the Linde FUSRAP Site, Tonawanda, New York - 15441 .............................................................................................. 973 Michelle Barker, Stephen Bousquet, Lisa Durham, Linda Houston, Karen Keil, Michael Polek, Robert Simmington, Sunita Kamboj

Laboratory Testing Options for FUSRAP Projects - 15462 ...................................................................................................................... 987 Brian Tucker, David Hays

RCRA Closure at the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company Haddam Neck Plant - 15655..................................................... 995 Eugene Shephard, B. Buerger, M. Cote

Radioactive Contamination from 1920-50s at an Urban Site of the New York City and Interim Remedial Action 15630 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1003 Oleg Povetko, Eric Daly, Michael Ferriola

The Radium Industry in France and the Remediation of Polluted Sites - 15256 .................................................................................. 1014 Bruno Cahen, Eric Lanes

Modeling the Effectiveness of Remediation Efforts in Contaminated Urban Areas: An EMRAS II Urban Areas Working Group Exercise - 15631 ............................................................................................................................................................... 1019 Kathleen Thiessen, Thomas Charnock, Sohan Chouhan, Won Tae Hwang, Sunita Kamboj, Juan Tomás, Charley Yu

Experience in Environmental Remediation of Radioactively Contaminated Site in Waste Disposal Area in Istanbul - 15011 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1034 Ahmet Erdal Osmanlioglu

Anticipating Change - The Means to Save Time and Rethink the Implementation of 10 CFR 770 Real Property Transfer Process - 15662.............................................................................................................................................................................. 1040 Lesley Cusick

SESSION 028 – COMMUNICATION OF TECHNICAL ISSUES: INPUTS, CONSIDERATIONS AND INFORMED DECISION MAKING Enhancing Performance Assessments Using the ASCEM Toolset - 15222 ............................................................................................ 1054 Mark Freshley, Vicky Freedman, Mark Rockhold, Erin Barker, Greg Flach, Roger Seitz, Patricia Lee, Paul Dixon

IAEA CONNECT: Connecting the Network of Networks for Enhanced Communication and Training - 15143 ............................ 1067 Andressa Santos Junger

Integrating Regulatory, Programmatic and Technical Needs for Modeling Tools to Support Decision-Making 15219 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1075 Roger Seitz, Paul Dixon, Justin Marble, Patricia Lee, Mark Freshley

SESSION 029 – DECISION MAKING TOOLS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR ER CLEANUP PROGRAMS THAT ENHANCE COMMUNICATION Improving Public Communication through Environmental Data Transparency at Los Alamos National Laboratory - 15306 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1084 Nita P Patel, Karen Paige, J. Christopher Echohawk

Oak Ridge Environmental Information System (OREIS): Formalizing the Shapes of Things on the Oak Ridge Reservation - 15393 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1097 Peter Salpas, Patricia Halsey, Deidre Tharpe, Phillip Clark, Larry Lewis, Lacey Wicks

Guided Interactive Statistical Decision Tools (GiSdT): An Open Source Software Integration of Decision Analysis and Stakeholder Judgment for Sustainable Waste Management, Disposal and Remediation - 15650 .............................................. 1102 Paul Black, Tom Stockton, Kelly Black

Using ASCEM Modeling and Visualization to Inform Stakeholders of Contaminant Plume Evolution and Remediation Efficacy at F-Basin Savannah River, SC - 15156 ............................................................................................................... 1113 Haruko Wainwright, Sergi Molins, James Davis, Bhavna Arora, Boris Faybishenko, Harinarayan Krishnan, Susan Hubbard, Greg Flach, Miles Denham, Carol Eddy-Dilek, David Moulton, Konstantin Lipnikov, Carl Gable, Terry Miller, Mark Freshley

SESSION 030 – CROSSCUTTING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS RISK MANAGEMENT AND MODELING PART 1 OF 3 Needs for Integrated Risk Assessment to Support Optimal Environmental Management Decisions - 15455................................... 1127 Ming Zhu, Bill Levitan, Mark Gilbertson, Rob Seifert

Demonstrating Integration of CBP and ASCEM Simulation Tools - 15627.......................................................................................... 1137 Pramod Mallick, Justin Marble, Greg Flach, Heather Burns, Paul Dixon, Roger Seitz, Patricia Lee, Kevin Brown, David Kosson

Modern Sensitivity Analysis - 15651 .......................................................................................................................................................... 1143 Paul Black, Tom Stockton, Paul Duffy

Postclosure Assessment Modelling of a Deep Geologic Repository for Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste in Ontario, Canada - 15145.............................................................................................................................................................. 1158 Russell Walke, Richard Little, Helen Leung

SESSION 031 – WORLDWIDE MANAGEMENT OF SPENT AND DISUSED RADIOACTIVE SEALED SOURCES, HEU, AND ORPHAN RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS AND CONTROL Commercial Sealed Sources and Timely Disposal – Challenges and Incentives - 15456...................................................................... 1169 David Martin, Abigail Cuthbertson, Temeka Taplin

The Challenge: Safe Management on Spent & Disused Sealed Radioactive Source in Thailand - 15654.......................................... 1184 Nathavan Ya-Anant, Juan Carlos Benitez-Navarro, Panya Nuanjan, Archara Phattanasub, Thunyaras Akharawutchayanon, Nikom Prasertchiewchan, Anan Omanee

SESSION 032A – POSTERS: HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU WASTE: ADVANCEMENTS IN STORAGE AND PROCESSING Hanford Single-Shell Tanks 241-T-203 and 241-T-204 Validation of Level Decrease Evaluation - 15343 ........................................ 1190 Amie Feero, Jeremy Johnson, John Schofield

High-level Waste Relocation Requires Use of New Technology in Aging Nuclear Facility - 15269.................................................... 1198 Cynthia Dayton, Heatherly Dukes, Daniel Meess, Lettie Chilson, Joseph Ebert, Daniel Sullivan, David Kurasch

Operational Plant Lifetime Assessment - UK National Nuclear Laboratory Experience - 15366 ...................................................... 1214 Steven Thomson

SESSION 032B – POSTERS: HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU WASTE: HLW FORMS Zircaloy Cladding as Starting Precursor for Ceramic Waste-Forms - 15562 ....................................................................................... 1223 Yury Pokhitonov, Boris Burakov

Preparation and Characterization of Pu and Hf Bearing Lanthanide Borosilicate and Aluminoborosilicate Glasses - 15667 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1231 Sergey Stefanovsky, Olga Stefanovsky, Boris Nikonov, James Marra

XRD, Electron Microscopy and Vibrational Spectroscopy Characterization of Simulated High-Fe/Al HLW Glasses - 15666 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1243 Sergey Stefanovsky, Boris Nikonov, James Marra

SESSION 032C – POSTERS: HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU WASTE: DISPOSAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MONITORING Used Nuclear Fuel Storage Cask Materials Monitoring System: A Proof of Concept to Deploy and Retrieve Monitoring Equipment - 15504................................................................................................................................................................... 1257 David D. Tolman, Richard Williams, Jack Tolman

Effects of pH on Deposition Rate of Supersaturated Silicic Acid around Geological Disposal System - 15245 ................................ 1273 Tsuyoshi Sasagawa, Taiji Chida, Hitoshi Mimura, Yuichi Niibori

Influences of Temperature on Permeability Changes of Flow-paths Altered by Highly Alkaline Ca-rich Groundwater - 15192 ................................................................................................................................................................................... 1282 Taiji Chida, Daiki Kurata, Yuichi Niibori, Hitoshi Mimura

A Preliminary Analysis on the Applicability of Deep Borehole Disposal for Spent Fuels in Korea - 15496...................................... 1289 Jong-Youl Lee, Kyungsu Kim, Geon Young Kim, Dae-Seok Bae

SESSION 032D – POSTERS: HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU WASTE: LESSONS LEARNED IN PROGRAMS AND OPERATIONS Achievements and Process Improvements in Processing Transuranic Waste at the TRU Waste Processing Center 15488 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1296 Ronald Gentry

LEANING the Tank Closure Process at the Savannah River Site - 15515 ............................................................................................ 1306 Laurene Rowell, Toby Hess

Benefits of Lean Management in Liquid Waste Operations - One Company's Journey - 15402........................................................ 1314 Rodney Blackmon, John Windham

Department of Energy Tank Closure - An Examination of Alternative Approaches - 15390 ............................................................. 1320 Gary Peterson, Elizabeth Hoffman, Michael Cercy, Christopher Brown, Kirk Cantrell

SESSION 032E – POSTERS: HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU WASTE: CHARACTERIZATION AND TRANSPORT Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of High Level Waste Plug Formation - 15228................................................................... 1329 Romani Patel, Dwayne McDaniel, Seckin Gokaltun

Solubility Predictions for Sodium Nitrate from Water Activity for Hanford Tank Concentrates - 15551........................................ 1341 Stephen Agnew, Gene Ramsey

Interactions of Cesium and Barium Ions with Calcium Silicate Hydrate under the Condition Saturated with Saline Water - 15247 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1351 Yuta Saito, Taiji Chida, Yuichi Niibori, Hitoshi Mimura

Development of the Computer Code for Multi-Calculations of Source Term of Spent Fuel - 15351 ................................................. 1361 Daesik Yook, Jae Hak Cheong, Dong Keuk Park, Dongmyung Lee

On the Influence of the Power Plant Operational History on the Inventory and the Uncertainties of Radionuclides Relevant for the Final Disposal of PWR Spent Fuel - 15149 ................................................................................................................... 1367 Ivan Fast, Holger Tietze-Jaensch, Yuliya Aksyutina, Dirk Bosbach

SESSION 033 – STUDENT POSTERS: THE NEXT GENERATION – INDUSTRY LEADERS OF TOMORROW Portland Cement Paste Behaviour Under Gamma Radiation Field in Geological Repository - 15272.............................................. 1374 Eduardo Ferreira, Xabier Turrillas, Fabiano Yokaichiya, Margareth Franco, Luis Gallego Martinez, Júlio Takehiro Marumo, Roberto Vicente

Magnetostrictive Transducer Development for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Inspection of Used Fuel Canisters in Dry Storage - 15304.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 1375 Jacob Beck, Cliff Lissenden

Understanding the Influence of Additives on the Crystallization Kinetics of Nepheline Based Glasses - 15472............................... 1376 Allyson Maron, Edmund Han, Yaqoot Shahrayar, John McCloy, Ashutosh Goel, Justin Cheng

Leaching Rate of the Borosilicate Glass Containing Molybdenum Oxide - 15546 ............................................................................... 1377 Koji Fujii, Yuki Ota, Kayo Sawada, Takahiko Sugiyama, Youichi Enokida

Use of X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer to Characterize Pre-Hanford Orchards in the 100-OL-1 Operable Unit 15717 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1384 Christian Pino, Amoret Bunn, Brad Fritz, Dominique Martinez, Komal Rana

D&D Decision Model and Mobile Application for Selection of Fixative, Strippable Coating, and Decontamination Gel Products - 15696 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 1385 Meilyn Planas

Study of an Unrefined Humate Solution as a Possible Remediation Method for Groundwater Contamination 15698 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1386 Hansell Gonzalez Raymat

Monitoring of U(VI) Bioreduction After ARCADIS Demonstration at Savannah River Site F-Area - 15699.................................. 1387 Aref Shehadeh

Miniature Motorized Inspection Tool for Department of Energy Hanford Site Tank Bottoms - 15700............................................ 1388 Ryan Sheffield, Dwayne E. McDaniel

Residual Waste Detection in HLW Staging Tanks - 15701...................................................................................................................... 1389 Dayron Chigin

Quantitative Assessment of Sustainable Remediation Options for SRS - 15702................................................................................... 1390 Natalia Duque

D&D Knowledge Management Information Tool Feasibility Study for Cross-platform Mobile Applications - 15704 ................... 1391 Steve Noel, Himanshu Upadhyay

Enraf (R) Reference Level Updates for High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks at Hanford Site - 15705.................................................. 1392 Anthony Fernandez, Ruben Mendoza

Non-Invasive Pipeline Unplugging Technology for Hanford High-Level Waste (Asynchronous Pulsing System) 15706 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1393 John Conley, Amer Awwad, Jairo Crespo

Characterization of the Uranium-Bearing Products of the Ammonia Injection Remediation Method - 15707................................ 1394 Robert Lapierre

Malware Forensics on Mobile Devices for DOE-EM Applications - 15708 ........................................................................................... 1395 Andrew De La Rosa

Sodium Silicate Treatment for Uranium (VI) Bearing Groundwater Systems at the F/H Area of Savannah River Site - 15709 .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1396 Christine Wipfli

Deactivation and Decommissioning Web Log Analysis Using Big Data Technology - 15710.............................................................. 1397 Santosh Joshi, Himanshu Upadhyay, Leonel Lagos

FX2 Advanced Fogging Technology - 15711 ............................................................................................................................................. 1398 Jesse Viera, Janesler Gonzalez

Best Practices Mobile Application for D&D Knowledge Management-Information Tool (KM-IT) - 15712..................................... 1399 Jorge Deshon, Himanshu Upadhyay

Column Testing of the Migration and Distribution of Humate Injected into Subsurface Systems at Savannah River Site's F/H Area - 15713 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1400 Kiara Pazan, Ravi Krishna Prasanth Gudavalli

Thermal Treatment of Plutonium Contaminated Materials (PCM) Waste - 15714 ............................................................................. 1401 Luke Boast, R. J. Hand, N. C. Hyatt

Erosion and Corrosion Analysis of Waste Transfer Components in the POR104 Valve Box at Hanford Site - 15715.................... 1402 Brian Castillo, Dwayne McDaniel

Sol-Gel Deposited Transducers Characteristics: A Weight Percent Study - 15718.............................................................................. 1403 Kyle Sinding, Alison Orr, Brian Reinhardt, Nathan Malarich, Bernhard Tittmann

Resistance and Reduction Potential of Serratia Marcescens in Hexavalent Chromium - 15721 ........................................................ 1404 Ijeoma Ekpenuma, Randall Harris

Serratia Marcescens Quorum Sensing Dependent Biofilm Formation - 15724..................................................................................... 1405 Fallon Stanley, Randall Harris

Ci6+ Sensitivity of Pseudomonas Fluorescens Transpon Mutant - 15725 ............................................................................................. 1406 Allison Pickering, Randall Harris

Assessment of the Anti-Biofilm Potency of Psidium Guajava on Two Strains of Pseudomonas Fluorescens - 15726...................... 1407 Sherlene Brown, Randall Harris, Florence Anoruo

Investigation of Dominant Hydrogeochemical Processes Influencing Uranium Transport in Groundwater at a Retired Explosives Test Site - 15727........................................................................................................................................................... 1408 Kimberly Danny, Mark Brusseau, Michael Taffet, J. Chorover

Dry Storage Cask Shake Table Experiments - 15733............................................................................................................................... 1409 Ahmed Maree, Taylor Nielsen, David Sanders, Luis Ibarra

A Study of Autunite Dissolution in the Presence of Shewanella Oneidensis MR1 and Different Bicarbonate Concentrations - 15736 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1410 Sandra Herrera

Knowledge Management Information Tool Analytics with Distributed Database Engine - 15737 .................................................... 1411 Kavitha Megalageri, Leonel Lagos, Himanshu Upadhyay

A Novel Application of Cosmic Rays for Spent Nuclear Fuel Monitoring - 15738 ............................................................................... 1412 Stylianos Chatzidakis, Phillip Forsberg, Bryan Sims, Lefteri Tsoukalas

SESSION PANEL: US DOE FEATURED SITE: SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SC – PART 1 OF 3 - 034 Setting the Success Standard for our Nation............................................................................................................................................. 1413 Dave Moody

Featured Site: DOE- Savannah River ........................................................................................................................................................ 1422 Carol Johnson

SRNL: The EM National Laboratory ........................................................................................................................................................ 1426 Terry Michalske

Tank Waste Risk Reduction at SRS - Past, Present and Future............................................................................................................. 1431 Terrel Spears

Savannah River Remediation - Overview and Status .............................................................................................................................. 1438 Stuart Macvean

Salt Waste Processing Overview................................................................................................................................................................. 1444 Pamela Marks

Salt Waste Processing Facility Status, Lessons Learned and Path Forward......................................................................................... 1450 Frank Sheppard

SESSION PANEL: EMERGING ISSUES THAT CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL CONTRACTOR ROLES AT FEDERAL SITES - 035 ExchangeMonitor ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1457 Martin Schneider

SESSION PANEL: US DOE ACQUISITION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT – “THE LAST 5 YEARS IN REVIEW” - 037 Two Sides of the Coin (CM/PM)................................................................................................................................................................. 1459 Jack Surash

US DOE Acquisition and Project Management - The Past 5 Years in Review ..................................................................................... 1466 Kenneth Rueter, Jack Surash

Washington Closure Hanford: Cleaning up the River Corridor ............................................................................................................ 1471 Jeff Bradford

Portsmouth Contract True-Up & Execution Challenges, Progress and Lessons Learned .................................................................. 1477 Dennis Carr

SESSION PANEL: GRADUATING STUDENTS AND NEW ENGINEERS – WANTS AND NEEDS – ARE COMPANIES EVEN LISTENING? = 038 Internships - A Shared Opportunity .......................................................................................................................................................... 1484 Melody Bell

Regional Center for Nuclear Education & Training ................................................................................................................................ 1491 Kevin Cooper

Graduating STEM Students - Entering The Workforce - Wants & Needs ........................................................................................... 1502 Robert Lapierre

SESSION PANEL: YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AND THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER - 039 NAYGN & KTR ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1511 Felix Meissner

Young Generation Nuclear Professional Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 1518 Yadira Bonilla-Cuevas

Young Generation Nuclear Professional Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 1522 Vasileios Anagnostopoulos

Young Professionals and the Role of Mentorship and Knowledge Transfer......................................................................................... 1529 Hilary Emerson

SESSION 040 – OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS IN HLW TREATMENT FACILITIES The Industrial Experience Feedback and R&D Ensure the Longevity of French Vitrification Facilities - 15503............................ 1533 Christian Ladirat, Jean Francois Hollebecque, Eric Chauvin

Addressing an Aging Facility: Improving Reliability of the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Savannah River Site - 15539.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1545 Jonathan Bricker, John Gregory, William Barnes

Cold Crucible Deployment in La Hague Facility: The Feedback from the First Four Years of Operation - 15119......................... 1553 Régis Didierlaurent, Eric Chauvin, Jacques Lacombe, Christian Mesnil, Catherine Veyer

Cold-Cap Temperature Profile Comparison between the Laboratory and Mathematical Model - 15591 ........................................ 1567 Derek Dixon, Michael Schweiger, Brian Riley, Richard Pokorny, Pavel Hrma

Improvements in Design and Operation of Bubblers in the Savannah River Site Defense Waste Processing Facility Melter - 15163 ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1576 Michael Smith, Dan Iverson, Glenn Diener, Jonathan Bricker, Savannah River

Contribution of the Numerical Simulations in the Development of the French HLLW Vitrification Processes 15126 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1587 Emilien Sauvage, Patrice Brun, Armand Bonnetier, Jacques Lacombe, Christian Ladirat

Remotely Controlled Manipulators Using Telerobotic Software Provide Enhanced Efficiency and Ergonomy for Work in Hot Cells - 15101 ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1592 Christophe Selliez, Etienne Fourcy, Gérard Piolain, Pierre Monthel, Assem Djedidi, Fiona Malcolm

VOLUME 3 SESSION 041 – ADVANCEMENTS IN NUCLEAR SEPARATIONS: TECHNOLOGY POLICY AND FACILITIES EDF’s Used Fuel Management French Policy - 15199 ............................................................................................................................. 1598 Anne Huguet, Michel Moulié, Olivier Giraud

Main Results of the French R&D on Minor Actinides Partitioning, a Significant Improvement towards Nuclear Waste Reduction - 15618 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1603 Christophe Poinssot, Jean-Marc Adnet, Michel Masson, Christine Rostaing, Bernard Boullis

DOE Nuclear Separation Technologies - 15148 ........................................................................................................................................ 1613 Patricia Paviet, Kimberly Gray, James Bresee

H Canyon Facility Remains a National Asset after Finding Innovative Solution to Funding Issues- 15278 ..................................... 1622 Michael Swain, Jay Ray, Michael Lewczyk

Next Generation Solvent Performance in the Modular Caustic Side Solvent Extraction Process - 15495 ........................................ 1628 Tara Smith, Carl Scherman, Dave Martin, Patricia Suggs

Recycle of Am-241 Obtained from Long Term Stored Plutonium for Use in Radioisotope Power Systems - 15035 ....................... 1640 Tim Tinsley, Mark Sarsfield

Processing and Disposition of Remote-Handled Transuranic Liquid Waste Generated at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - 15113 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1649 Sharon Robinson, Robert Jubin, Paul Taylor, Bradley Patton, David Depaoli

SESSION 042 – HLW OPTIMIZATION AND IMPROVEMENT Control Room Consolidation at Hanford Tank Farms for Improved Conduct of Operations - 15345.............................................. 1657 Gordon Webster, Iain Leaver

Applying Lean Management to Aging Infrastructure - 15416................................................................................................................ 1665 Rodney Blackmon, Bonnie Barnes

Waste Minimization Efforts at the H-Canyon Nuclear Materials Processing Facility Located at the Savannah River Site - 15535.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1672 Jay Ray, Kenneth Fuller, Charles Goergen, Glynn Dyer, Mike Mobley

Integrated Salt Waste Processing at the Savannah River Site - 15301................................................................................................... 1685 William Van Pelt, Kenneth Guay

SESSION 043 – THERMAL MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL Feasibility Studies for the Design of Disposal Vaults for Multi-Purpose Containers (MPCs): Construction, Operation, Ventilation and Management of Heat - 15175 ....................................................................................................................... 1694 Alastair Clark, Mark Johnson, Chris Tuthill, Dean Gentles, Wolfgang Kickmaier, Tara Beattie, Shaun Robarts, Ian McKinley

Development of Understanding of Disposability of High-Heat-Generating Wastes in the UK - 15359.............................................. 1710 Michelle Dickinson, David Holton, Martin Cairns

Thermal Analysis to Determine Acceptable Package Loading and Spatial Configurations of High-Heat-Generating Waste - 15411 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1723 David Holton, Martin Cairns, Simon Myers

Performance Assessment Modeling of a Generic SNF/HLW Repository in Salt with Coupled Thermal-Hydrologic Effects - 15423 ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1736 David Sevougian, Geoff Freeze, W. Payton Gardner, Glenn Hammond, Paul Mariner, Robert Mackinnon

SESSION 044 – PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF DISPOSAL SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND SITES FOR LLW/ILW – PART 1 OF 2 Considerations for Improving the Biosphere Assessment Methodology and the Associated Conceptual and Mathematical Models for Application to LLW/ILW Radioactive Wastes in Spain - 15194................................................................ 1754 Danyl Perez-Sanchez, Mike Thorne

Unique Natural System Modeling Aspects of the H-Tank Farm at the Savannah River Site - 15271................................................ 1761 Kent Rosenberger, Sherri Ross

Safety Assessment for the Radon-Type Surface Disposal Facility at Saakadze, Georgia - 15406....................................................... 1769 Bernt Haverkamp, Heinz Kroeger

Preliminary Performance Assessment of Waste Management Area C at the Hanford Site in Southeast Washington - 15331 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1784 Marcel Bergeron, Susan Eberlein, Kristin Singleton, Chris Kemp, R. Douglas Hildebrand, Alaa Aly, Sunil Mehta, Matthew Kozak, William McMahon, Michael Connelly

Characterization of Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity in Fractured Media Using the Multistep Outflow Method - 15461 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1794 Greg Flach, Kenneth Dixon, Ralph Nichols

Real-Time Electrochemical Measurements of Carbon Steel in Ground Water with Sulfate Reducing Bacteria Enrichment - 15604 ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1806 Leena Carpén, Pauliina Rajala, Malin Bomberg

Vadose Zone Monitoring at the Radioactive Waste Management Sites at the Nevada National Security Site - 15294.................... 1814 David Hudson, David Black, Vefa Yucel, Greg Shott, Pat Arnold, Jhon Carilli

The Evolution of the Nevada National Security Site Waste Acceptance Criteria (NNSSWAC) - 15312 ........................................... 1829 Jeanne Poling, Pat Arnold, Gregg Geisinger, Robert Boehlecke, Sydney Gordon

SESSION 045 – MANAGEMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DRY WASTE EDF Industrial Strategy for the Management of Radioactive Waste - 15204 ....................................................................................... 1843 Claude Pagès, Géraldine Benoit, Thierry Lassabatère, Didier Pacquentin, Estelle Bancelin

Study of Treatment as an Alternative WM Pathway: Examples of I-graphite and Metallic Components Such as Steam Generators - 15212............................................................................................................................................................................ 1852 Jérémy Buttin, Anne Deudon, Rémi Duvivier

Tracking Radioactivity Content in the PWR Spent Fuel Pool in PWRs - 15150 .................................................................................. 1859 David James, Clint Miller, Andrew Kolste, Jon Bohnsack

Design and Performance Testing of a Novel Far Field Gamma System to Assay Radioactive Waste in 400 and 200 litre Drums - 15339....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1869 Marc Looman, Erik Lindberg, E Ray Martin, John Mason, Lawrence Odell, Matt Piotrowski, Adam Poundall, Antony Towner, Zhang Wei

SESSION 046 – MANAGEMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT LIQUID AND WET WASTE Overcoming Challenges in Delivering Five AVANTech Water Treatment Systems at Fukushima - 15544...................................... 1878 James Braun

Resin Selection and Loading to Reduce Wet Radwaste Generation - 15153 ......................................................................................... 1886 Clint Miller

Nuclear Waste Management Approach for New Build Nuclear Power Plants in the People's Republic of China 15687 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1891 David Bergmann

The Completion of the Construction and Commissioning of the Liquid Radwaste Treatment Plant at ChNPP 15685 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1898 Denis Fedorov, Alexey Luzhetskiy, Dmitry Adamovich, Igor Klimenko

SESSION 047 – D&D OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES (NON-POWER GENERATING FACILITIES/LARGE AND SMALL NUCLEAR FACILITIES) Considerations for Recovery of Large Areas of a Nuclear Facility for Re-Use - 15147 ....................................................................... 1902 Alex Jenkins

Dismantling of Primary Shielding with Prototype Machines in a Compact Sodium Cooled Reactor - 15463 .................................. 1915 Anja Graf, Holger Petrick, Wolfgang-Bruno Huber

Decontamination Methods Testing for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - 15691.................................................................................... 1922 Rick Demmer, Stephen Reese, Michael Ancho

SESSION 048 – ER POST CLOSURE CHALLENGES AND LONG TERM STEWARDSHIP/LEGACY MANAGEMENT Long-Term Stewardship - Surveillance & Maintenance at Hanford - 15155........................................................................................ 1934 Rick Moren, Keith Grindstaff

Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Flow in the Navajo Sandstone Aquifer, Tuba City, Arizona Disposal Site 15167 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1945 Richard Bush, Timothy Bartlett

Endangered Species Act Impacts on Office of Legacy Management Activities at the Rocky Flats, Colorado, Site 15268 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1954 Jody Nelson, Scott Surovchak

Post-Closure Program Streamlining at the Nevada National Security Site - 15290 ............................................................................. 1962 Reed J. Poderis, Rebecca King, Alissa Silvas, Tiffany Lantow

Use of Natural Resource Damages Settlement Funds for Watershed Protection at the Fernald Preserve, Harrison, Ohio - 15309 .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1968 Gwen Hooten, Tom Schneider, Jennifer Finfera, William Hertel, John Homer

Environmental Sampling at the Amchitka and Adak Islands, Alaska - 15317 ..................................................................................... 1982 Paul S. Darr, Mark Kautsky, Mary Picel

Incorporating Climate and Regional Setting into Realistic-Efficacious End States for Contaminated Sites - 15386....................... 1997 Brian Looney, Miles Denham, Carol Eddy-Dilek, Bill Dam, Mark Kautsky

Management of Multiple Groundwater Contaminant Plumes Extending beyond Property Boundaries at the Young - Rainey STAR Center - 15623.................................................................................................................................................................... 2010 Joe Daniel, Julian Caballero, Paul S. Darr, Charles Tabor, Terri Uhlmeyer, Scott Surovchak, Karl Lombardi

SESSION 049A – POSTERS: L/ILW - TREATMENT Engineering Scale Demonstration of a Prospective Cast Stone Process - 15584 ................................................................................... 2017 Alex Cozzi, Mark Fowley, Erich Hansen, Michael Williams, Russell Eibling, Kevin Fox, Donald Miller, David Swanberg

A Granular Inorganic Adsorbent Highly Selective to Cesium - 15058 .................................................................................................. 2025 Li-Ching Chuang, Chi-Hung Liao, Chien-Shiun Liao

Biosorption of Uranium, Am-241 and Cs-137 by Rice Husk - 15437 ..................................................................................................... 2039 Rafael Vicente De Pádua Ferreira, Eduardo Ferreira, Rafael Canevesi, Edson Antonio Silva, Maurício Cesar Palmieri, Júlio Takehiro Marumo

Biosorption of Thorium by Bone Meal - 15435 ......................................................................................................................................... 2051 Eduardo Ferreira, Eliakim Alves, Rafael Vicente De Pádua Ferreira, Vera Lúcia Keiko Isiki, Edson Antonio Silva, Rafael Canevesi, Júlio Takehiro Marumo

Operating Experience in the Treatment and Storage of LLW in Turkey - 15010 ................................................................................ 2057 Ahmet Erdal Osmanlioglu

SESSION 049B – POSTERS: I/ILW - DISPOSAL The Status of LILW Disposal Facility Construction in Korea - 15158................................................................................................... 2063 Minseok Kim, Jong-Won Lee

Planning Large-Scale Excavation and Construction Activities within an Aerially Constrained Site for Construction of a Repository for Low and Short-Lived Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste at the Bulgarian National Disposal Facility - 15372 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2074 Gerald Nieder-Westermann, Enrique Biurrun, Emiliano Gonzalez Herranz, Mariano Navarro

Success in Commissioning a Key US Radioactive Waste Burial Site through the Technical Support of Dufrane Nuclear Shielding Incorporated - 15476 .................................................................................................................................................... 2086 W. G. Brunkow, Joshua Brooks, Lou Deritis, Andrew Akin

Support of SRS Saltstone Regulatory Compliance - 15586 ..................................................................................................................... 2091 Alex Cozzi, Christopher Bannochie, Charles Crawford, Donald Miller

SESSION 049C – POSTERS: L/ILW – CHARACTERIZATION AND TRACKING Use of the Underwater Collimated Spectrometric System for Survey of Storage Ponds of Research VVR-2 and OR Reactors - 15118............................................................................................................................................................................................ 2097 Vyacheslav Stepanov, Victor Potapov, Alexey Stepanov, Anatoly Volkovich, Sergey Smirnov

Characterization of Spent Filters from the Water Polishing System of IEA-R1 Reactor - 15451 ...................................................... 2104 Ana Paula Gimenes Tessaro, Roberto Vicente

Managing Work Flow and Logistics at Waste Processing Facilities Using the Waste Compliance & Tracking System - 15392............................................................................................................................................................................................... 2111 Justin Tozer, Keith Russell, J. Christopher Echohawk

Waste Information Management System with 2014-15 Waste Streams - 15178 ................................................................................... 2117 Himanshu Upadhyay, Walter Quintero, Leonel Lagos, Peggy Shoffner, David Roelant

SESSION 49D – POSTERS: L/ILW – WASTE FORMS Technetium Oxidation in Slag-Based Sodium Salt Waste forms Exposed to Water and Moist Hanford Soil - 15514 ..................... 2127 Christine Langton

Dual Solidification Process of BN-350 Liquid Radioactive Waste Using High Technology Polymers and Newly Designed Encapsulation Techniques - 15198............................................................................................................................................. 2144 Anatoliy Galkin, Igor Yakovlev, Nadezhda Bachilova, Alexander Klepikov, Aleksandr Blynskiy, Turginbek Tolebayev, Anatoliy Ivanov, Dennis Kelley, Artem Gelis, Assel Abdugalieva

SESSION 049E – POSTERS: L/ILW – FACILITIES & OPERATIONS Starting DIADEM Medium-Level Waste Interim Storage’s Construction - 15034.............................................................................. 2150 Herve Lagrave, Carole Mahe, Julien Faure, Matthieu Desormiere, Thierry Ferraz, Marie Laurence Auzias

Operations Research Modeling in Support of the Hanford Direct Feed Low Activity Waste Program - 15538 .............................. 2156 David Shuford, Joanne Berry

Tritiated Waste Management Opportunities Based on the Reduction of Tritium Activity and Out-gassing - 15607 ...................... 2164 Christelle Decanis, Daniel Canas, Didier Dall’Ava, Jerome Pamela

Ecological Risk Assessment Software for Radioactive Waste Management Facilities - 15464............................................................ 2170 Mark Gerchikov, Jimin Peng, Irvin Benovich

Treatment of Radioactive Liquid Waste by the Forced-Air Exhaust System - 15190.......................................................................... 2183 Taekuk Kim, Won-Hyuk Jang, Ki-Baek Shin, Dae-Seok Hong

SESSION 050 – POSTERS: NUCLEAR POWER PLANT (NPP) WASTE MANAGEMENT The Status of Monitoring of Carbon-14 Emissions from Nuclear Power Plants in Korea - 15188..................................................... 2190 Sungil Kim, Daesik Yook, Byungsoo Lee

ALARA on the Radioactive Waste Management Activities at NPP in Korea - 15189 ......................................................................... 2196 Sungil Kim, Daesik Yook, Byeongsoo Kim, Byungsoo Lee, Hongtae Kim

Effect of Sodium/Boron Mole Ratio on the Cement Solidification for Sodium Borate Waste Produced in PWR Plants - 15261 ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2202 Hirofumi Okabe, Masaaki Kaneko, Tatsuaki Sato, Masumitsu Toyohara, Tetsuo Motohashi

Higher Harmonic Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Structural Integrity Assessment of Dry Storage Canisters - 15381 ..................... 2209 Gloria Choi, Yang Liu, Cliff Lissenden

Uptake Selectivity for Different Types of Zeolites in the Presence of Boric Acid - 15244.................................................................... 2220 Natsuki Fujita, Hitoshi Mimura, Takaaki Kobayashi, Kazuyuki Sekino, Kunitaka Nagamine

Selective Separation of Sr by Potassium Titanates from Solution of Nitrate - 15248........................................................................... 2229 Hitoshi Kanda, Hitoshi Mimura, Yuichi Niibori, Mamoru Iwasaki, Koichi Mori

SESSION PANEL: SRS ALIGNING MISSION NEEDS AND AGING INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS PART 2 OF 3 - 051 SRS Aligning Mission Needs and Aging Infrastructure........................................................................................................................... 2238 David Bender

SRS Aligning Mission Needs and Aging Infrastructure: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Perspective ........................................ 2243 Michael Lewczyk

SRS Aligning Mission Needs and Aging Infrastructure: Liquid Waste Perspective ............................................................................ 2248 Kim Hauer

SESSION PANEL: SRS INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION MEANS SUCCESS: PART 3 OF 3 - 052 Savannah River Site Innovative Technology Integration Means Success.............................................................................................. 2255 James Folk

Technology Innovation................................................................................................................................................................................. 2262 Sharon Marra

Technology Innovations ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2268 Kent Fortenberry

Technology Opportunities SWPF Integration .......................................................................................................................................... 2281 Thomas Burns

Office of Environmental Management (EM)Concluding Remarks for SRS Innovative Technology Integration Means Success ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 2287 Monica Regalbuto

SESSION PANEL: SMALL BUSINESS CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THEIR CONTRACTORS - 053 Subcontracting Opportunites with the DOE Prime Contracts ............................................................................................................... 2290 William Badger

The Bechtel Difference ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2300 Richard Brown

HII Small Business Brief - Stoller Newport News Nuclear ...................................................................................................................... 2314 Sharon Brady

Waste Management 2015 - Small Business Panel "Small Business Contracting Working Together for Success"........................... 2325 Marty Gray

SESSION PANEL: ADDRESSING THE SMALL BUSINESS BARRIERS IN CONTRACTING WITH THE US DOE - 054 Waste Management Symposia 2014 ........................................................................................................................................................... 2337 John Hale

Environmental Management Small Business ............................................................................................................................................ 2342 Jack Surash

Doing Business with National Nuclear Security Administration ............................................................................................................ 2348 Greg Gonzales

SESSION PANEL: INTERNATIONAL DEEP REPOSITORY PROGRESS - 055 The French Geological Disposal ProjectCIGEO....................................................................................................................................... 2354 Gérald Ouzounian

Progress in the Swedish Programme for Spent Nuclear Fuel ................................................................................................................. 2360 Monica Hammarstrom

Geologic Repositories Progress - Germany ............................................................................................................................................... 2366 Thilo Von Berlepsch

The Case of Switzerland .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2374 Irina Gaus

Radioactive Waste Management................................................................................................................................................................. 2385 Peter Lock

VOLUME 4 SESSION PANEL: PROGRESS IN DEALING WITH THE WORLD’S STOCKPILE OF USED NUCLEAR FUEL – WORLD PROGRESS WITH TRANSPORT, INTERIM STORAGE, RECYCLING AND GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL - 056 Continued Storage Rule/Yucca Mountain Safety Evaluation Report - Status Update ........................................................................ 2389 Keith McConnell

Sustainable Cycle Solutions for Smooth and Optimized Nuclear Development ................................................................................... 2394 Frederic Bailly

Spent Fuel Management in the UK ............................................................................................................................................................ 2400 Tim Tinsley

SESSION PANEL: NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WASTE MANAGEMENT – LLW PROCESSOR ISSUES - 057 A Nuclear Services and WM Company ..................................................................................................................................................... 2409 Tammy Monday

EnergySolutions Processing Capabilities................................................................................................................................................... 2415 Mark Lewis

SESSION PANEL: US NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WASTE MANAGEMENT – US LLW DISPOSAL ISSUES - 058 WCS Update.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2426 Dan Burns

US Ecology Update & Case Studies............................................................................................................................................................ 2437 Chad Hyslop

LLRW Clive Disposal Update ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2450 James A. Miller

SESSION 059 – ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS IN GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL Investigations of Dual-Purpose Canister Direct Disposal Feasibility - 15106........................................................................................ 2469 Ernest Hardin, Kaushik Banerjee, Joe Carter, Robert Clark, Elena Kalinina, John Scaglione, Justin Clarity, R. Howard

Development of a Backfill Material for LILW and HLW Disposal Galleries in the Current Belgian Geological Disposal Concept - 15374 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2483 Hans-Joachim Engelhardt, Bernt Haverkamp, Lieselotte Ernestine Von Borstel, Philippe Van Marcke, Erik Coppens

Siting Considerations for a Deep Borehole Disposal Facility - 15403..................................................................................................... 2498 Geoff Freeze, Bill Arnold, Patrick Brady, David Sassani, Kristopher Kuhlman, Robert Mackinnon

Outcomes of the Full Scale Seal Experiment - A Seal Industrial Prototype for the Cigéo Project - 15207 ....................................... 2508 Jean-Michel Bosgiraud, Alain Harman, Frederic Plas, Sarah Dewonck, Régis Foin, Gilles Armand, Gérald Ouzounian

System-Level Logistics Modeling of DPC Direct Disposal - 15511 ......................................................................................................... 2520 Elena Kalinina, Ernest Hardin

A Review of Multipurpose Canister Concepts for Standardization in the Waste Management System - 15563 .............................. 2535 Riley Cumberland, Josh Jarrell, Jeff Williams, Robert Howard

Engineering Management Challenges of the CIGÉO Project - 15576.................................................................................................... 2545 Roberto Muscetti, François Laupretre

Impacts of an Additional Exhaust Shaft on WIPP Performance - 15170 .............................................................................................. 2555 Chris Camphouse

SESSION 060 – HLW CHARACTERIZATION AND RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES Commercial Submersible Mixing Pump for SRS Tank Waste Removal - 15223.................................................................................. 2568 Michael Hubbard, James Herbert, Patrick Scheele

Improving High Level Waste Solids Mobilization and Transfer through Hanford Double-Shell Tanks - 15099............................. 2583 Theodore Wooley, Kearn Lee, Mike Thien

Cone Penetrometer Shear Strength Measurements of Hanford Site Sludge Waste - 15314................................................................ 2599 Jordan Follett, Joseph Meacham

Testing of a 3-D Sonar for Future Deployment to Image Solids on the Floor of Hanford, HLW Conditioning Tanks - 15646 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2614 David Roelant, Dayron Chigin

SESSION 061 – FUTURE FUEL CYCLES – HLW STRATEGIES Salt Waste Processing Facility Project Lessons Learned: Acquisition through Construction - 15518............................................... 2623 Thomas Burns

Evaluation of Waste Arising from Future Nuclear Fuel Cycles - 15197 ................................................................................................ 2634 Robert Jubin, Temitope Taiwo, Roald Wigeland

Improving Actinides Recycling, a Key Step towards a More Sustainable Nuclear Energy - 15617 ................................................... 2650 Christophe Poinssot, Stéphane Grandjean, Michel Masson, Bernard Boullis

Impact of Dutch Nuclear Fuel Cycle Scenarios on Radionuclide Inventory Intended for Disposal - 15201...................................... 2660 Jaap Hart, Ecaterina Rosca-Bocancea

SESSION 062 – SCIENCE UNDERLYING RISK REDUCTION IN HIGH LEVEL WASTE PROCESSING Materials for Tc Capture to Increase Tc Retention in Glass Waste Form - 15553............................................................................... 2675 Steven Luksic, Pavel Hrma, Albert Kruger

Controlled Crystallization of Salts from Nuclear Waste Solutions - 15235 ........................................................................................... 2683 Daniel Griffin, Ronald W. Rousseau, Martha A. Grover, Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Design and Performance of a Sensitive Heat-Flow Calorimeter for the Measurement of Radioactive Waste in 55Gallon (US) Drums - 15334.......................................................................................................................................................................... 2692 John Mason, Charles Bonner, Kevin Burke, Lynn Foster, Lawrence Odell, James Pecos, Barry Scott, Antony Towner, Michael West, Graeme Wood, Richard Creed

SESSION 063 – PROJECT MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENTS – PLANNING THROUGH COMPLETION – SCOPE, COST, & SCHEDULE CONTROL Environmental Requirements Management: Maintaining an Effective Compliance Program is Key to a Robust Environmental Management System - 15184............................................................................................................................................ 2703 Laura Cusack, Jose Archuleta, Jeffrey Bramson, Jeff Frey

Salt Waste Processing Facility Project (SWPF) Project Management Improvements: Working under a Cost Cap Contract - 15523 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2711 Frank Sheppard

Performance Improvement and Human Resources Transition Management in D&D Projects - 15440 ........................................... 2717 Gilles Clement, Bertrand Ytournel, Vincent Gauthereau, Mathieu Rosenberg

Environmental Cleanup of the East Tennessee Technology Park - Year Three - A Status Report - 15522 ...................................... 2727 Allen Schubert

SESSION 064 – PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF DISPOSAL SYSTEMS, FACILITIES AND SITES FOR LLW/ILW – PART 2 OF 2 Approaches to Consider Covers and Liners in a Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Performance Assessment 15300 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2736 Roger Seitz, Mark Phifer, Linda Suttora

Longevity of Geosynthetic Cover Components - 15450 ........................................................................................................................... 2750 Kevin Foye, Te-Yang Soong, Robert Koerner

Effect of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Leachate on Antioxidant Depletion in HDPE Geomembrane - 15135 ............................... 2763 Kuo Tian, Youming Yang, Craig H Benson, James Tinjum

Reactive Transport Modeling and Characterization of Concrete Materials with Fly Ash Replacement under Carbonation Attack - 15477 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2772 Janelle Branch, Kevin Brown, Joshua Arnold, Hans Van Der Sloot, David Kosson

SESSION 065 – EMERGING TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR LLW/ILW Arvia Organics Destruction: An Innovative Treatment Approach for Dioxins, Furans and Other Problematic (Orphan) Organic Wastes - 15380 .............................................................................................................................................................. 2785 Michael Conti-Ramsden, Nigel Brown, Mike Lodge, Laurie Judd, John Ritter, Mikael Khan

Decontamination of Organic Wastes Containing Radionuclides - 15122............................................................................................... 2805 Thomas Unsworth, Nigel Brown, Simon Pimblott

SESSION 066 – SAFETY IN THE PACKAGE – DESIGN, FABRICATION AND USE A Regulatory Perspective on the Response Function Method for Determining Allowable Content of Radioactive Materials Transportation Package and Storage Cask - 15023................................................................................................................ 2813 Zhian Li, Meraj Rahimi

Comparison of German and American Fabrication Standards for Transportation and Storage Containments of High Level Radioactive Material Type B Packages - 15055 .................................................................................................................... 2820 Edward Russell, Brian Anderson

New Container Development for the International Market - 15656....................................................................................................... 2826 Wolfgang Steinwarz

3-60B Type B Shipping Cask Enhanced Operational Features to Facilitate Leakage Rate Testing - 15585..................................... 2835 William Acton, Steven Sisley, Paul B Shaw

MP197HB; First Licensed Transportation Package with Canistered High Burnup Fuel after Dry Storage - 15580 ...................... 2842 Jayant Bondre

Shortage of Type B LLRW Casks in the US to Serve Nuclear Plants and National Labs - 15663...................................................... 2849 Aleksandr Gelfond

French Management Model for Sustainable Transportation of Used Fuel - 15376.............................................................................. 2858 Catherine Shelton, Helene Badia, Gerard Orban

SESSION 067 – APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE D&D TECHNOLOGIES – PART 2 OF 3 Benefits from R&D for D&D Projects - 15089.......................................................................................................................................... 2863 Christine Georges, Charly Mahe, Lionel Boucher, Frédéric Charton, Yves Soulabaille

Knowledge Management Information Tool Web Analytics - 15182....................................................................................................... 2871 Himanshu Upadhyay, Leonel Lagos, Walter Quintero, Peggy Shoffner, John De Gregory

Radiological Mapping of Facilities under Dismantling Process by Digital Autoradiography - 15230 ............................................... 2880 Florence Goutelard, Pascal Fichet, Raphael Haudebourg

Chemical Decontamination of a Primary Coolant System Using Hydrazine Based Solutions - 15215............................................... 2887 Wang-Kyu Choi, Hui-Jun Won, Sang Yoon Park, Seon Byeong Kim, Jun -Young Jung, Jei-Kwon Moon

The Development and Initial Testing of the Ice Pig Cleaning Method for Nuclear Reprocessing Plants - 15363............................. 2894 Alex Jenkins, Joe Quarini, Dan McBryde

Submersible ROVs Pioneer Decommissioning of a Legacy Nuclear Fuel Storage Pond - 15368 ........................................................ 2908 Simon Pyne, Wayne Jones, Ian Crabbe, Eleanor Carr

Hanford Building 324 REC Hot Cell Decommissioning Approach - 15484........................................................................................... 2919 Matt Cole, Bryan Flanagan, Steven Marske

Experience in Remote-Operated Decommissioning with Electromechanical Equipment - 15354...................................................... 2931 Hubert Hafen, Jean-Michel Wagner, Claudia Reich

SESSION 068 – US – FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL ACTION PROGRAM (FUSRAP) AND OTHER US ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS PROJECTS Hydrogeologic Modeling and the Development of Preliminary Remediation Goals for the Guterl Specialty Steel Site, New York - 15431................................................................................................................................................................................. 2952 William Frederick, Sheila Hint, Lisa Durham, Vikas Tandon

Indoor Dust Remedial Investigation Sampling at the Colonie FUSRAP Site - 15578 .......................................................................... 2964 Dave Watters, James Moore

Naturally Elevated Radionuclides Encountered on Environmental Radiation Remediation Sites - 15224 ....................................... 2975 Jough Donakowski

New Approach to Gamma Scans for Processed Natural Uranium at a FUSRAP Site - 15470............................................................ 2983 Heath Downey, Alejandro Lopez, Jeffrey Lively, Andrew Lenox

Radiological Data Consolidation and 3-D Modeling of a Building - 15473............................................................................................ 2993 Heath Downey, Nelson Walter

Niagara Falls Storage Site – Balance of Plant Investigation Results - 15432......................................................................................... 3009 William Frederick, John Busse, Jane Staten, Neil Miller, Shawn McCabe

Challenges in Obtaining Property Access: The FUSRAP Maywood Site Experience - 15550 ............................................................ 3024 Andrew Mills, William Kollar

Implementation and Evaluation of a Radiological Field Investigation or Real Property Interests Associated with the FUSRAP Maywood Site - 15611 ........................................................................................................................................................... 3039 David Hays, Ann Ewy

SESSION 069A – POSTERS: GROUNDWATER ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Groundwater Monitoring Report Streamlining Techniques - 15305 ..................................................................................................... 3051 Ashley Shull, Natalie Lopez, Brian Hennessey

Utilization of GIS Technology to Support Development of Flow and Contaminant Fate and Transport Models at US DOE Sites - 15457................................................................................................................................................................................... 3062 Angelique Lawrence, Georgio Tachiev

Achieving Groundwater Monitoring Optimization at SRS: A Core Team Process Based on Rigorous Technical Assessment - 15273 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 3074 Jeffrey Ross, Mary Flora, Christopher Bergren, Brian Hennessey, Teresa Eddy

SESSION 069B – POSTERS: STRATEGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION 25 Years of Environmental Remediation in the General Separations Area of the Savannah River Site: Lessons Learned about What Worked and What Did Not Work in Soil and Groundwater Cleanup - 15270 ................................................ 3083 Gerald Blount, Jeffrey Thibault, Phil Prater, Margaret Millings

Three-Dimensional Modeling: Communicating Risk to Inform Site Cleanup Priorities - 15238 ....................................................... 3095 Heather Belts, S Kosjerina

National Contribution to the Organization and Carrying Out Monitoring Activities on Assessment of Radiation and Ecological Situation in Uranium Tailings of SE «Vostokredmet» - 15068 ..................................................................................... 3104 Ilkhom Mirsaidov, Bahodurjon Adkhamov

Using Salmon as a Bioindicator of the Health of the Columbia River at Hanford - 15534.................................................................. 3112 Joanna Burger, Michael Gochfeld, Charles Powers, Kevin Brown, James Clarke

SESSION 069C – POSTERS: RADIOLOGICAL AND ANALYTICAL EMERGING ISSUES IN ER Characterization of Plutonium Activities in Soil - 15429......................................................................................................................... 3127 Lynn Kidman, Matthew Knop, Dorothy Sloop

Overcoming the Barriers to Implementation of Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation Projects, the CIDER Project - 15160 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3140 Horst Monken Fernandes, Patrick O'Sullivam

Challenges of Mine Remediation Programmes in Developing Countries – a Life Cycle Perspective - 15371 ................................... 3155 Christian Kunze, Uwe Walter

SESSION 070 – POSTERS: COMMUNICATIONS, INVOLVEMENT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING NEPA Training is Essential: It Shouldn’t Just be for Environmental Staff - 15063 ............................................................................ 3163 Larry Camper, Zahira Cruz

Exploring Communication Techniques Across a Wide Spectrum of Groups - 15105.......................................................................... 3168 David Lepoire

Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management, Integrated Toolsets and Simulator to Enhance Public Communication - 15186 ................................................................................................................................................................... 3173 Paul Dixon, Vicky Freedman, David Moulton, Mark Freshley, Stefan Finsterle, Carl Steefel, Haruko Wainwright, Roger Seitz, Tim Scheibe, Justin Marble

SESSION PANEL: US DOE FEATURED SITE: NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE (NNSS) – US DOE AND NNSA WORKING TOGETHER IN A MULTI-MISSION ENVIRONMENT - 071 Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) - U.S. Department of Energy andNational Nuclear Security Administration Working Together in a Multi-Mission Environment ............................................................................................................................... 3181 Teri Browdy, Scott Wade

VOLUME 5 Nevada National Security Site Programmatic Overview ......................................................................................................................... 3184 Patrick Morris

American Indians and the Nevada National Security Site....................................................................................................................... 3193 Richard Arnold

SESSION PANEL: US DOE FEATURED SITE: NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE (NNSS) – GROUNDWATER CHARACTERIZATION PROGRESS - 072 Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) - Groundwater Characterization Process - Introduction ...................................................... 3202 Bill Wilborn, Sam Marutzky

Efficiencies and Consolidation of Groundwater Sampling at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) ........................................ 3207 Irene Farnham

Evolution of the Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) ....................................................................................... 3216 Chuck Russell

Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board Communicating Progress to Stakeholders on Groundwater at the Nevada National Security Site................................................................................................................................................................................... 3224 Donna Hruska

ASCEM Site Applications - Underground Test Area (UGTA) Site Application................................................................................... 3232 Justin Marble, Bill Wilborn, Paul Dixon, Zhiming Lu, Dylan Harp, Edward Kwicklis, Terry Miller, Andrew Wolfsberg, Kay Birdsell

Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources................................................................................................................. 3240 Christine Andres

SESSION PANEL: US MOTOR CARRIER CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL - 073 Tri-State Motor Transit Co. ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3250 Charles Pittman

VS Group....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3259 Cavanaugh Mims

Impact of New DOT Hours of Service on Transportation Industry....................................................................................................... 3273 Warren Baugh

Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting ..................................................................................................................................... 3281 Ray Morgan

Motor Carrier Challenges in Transporting Radioactive Material ......................................................................................................... 3308 Salina Savage

SESSION PANEL: OUTCOME OF THE US NRC WASTE CONFIDENCE RULEMAKING ON SPENT/USED FUEL - 074 Outcome of the US NRC Waste Confidence Decision Rulemaking on Spent/Used Fuel...................................................................... 3314 Larry Camper, Lisa Edwards

Waste Confidence/Continued Storage........................................................................................................................................................ 3316 Keith McConnell

Waste Confidence/Continued Storage Outreach and Communications ................................................................................................ 3321 Carrie Safford

Waste Confidence: The Public Outreach Process..................................................................................................................................... 3327 Francis Cameron

Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel (aka Waste Confidence Rule) .............................................................................................. 3331 Pierre Oneid, Stefan Anton

Nuclear Industry Perspectives on the Continued Storage Rule .............................................................................................................. 3338 Jonathan Rund

NRDCs Perspectives on Waste Confidence/Continued Storage GEIS & Rule...................................................................................... 3345 Geoffrey Fettus

SESSION PANEL: US REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS - 075 Hanford Cleanup: Challenges and Innovations........................................................................................................................................ 3352 John Price

Innovative Approaches for Environmental Restoration at SRS ............................................................................................................. 3357 Daphne Neel

Innovative Approaches to Information Availability and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal - A Utah Perspective..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3364 Rusty Lundberg

SESSION PANEL: US DOE PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES - 077 Contracting Opportunities in NNSA.......................................................................................................................................................... 3378 Greg Gonzales

EM Procurement Update............................................................................................................................................................................. 3384 Jack Surash

SESSION 078 – IMPROVEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY, REUSE AND RECYCLING IN MANAGEMENT OF LLW/ILW Decontamination of Uranium Contaminated Metals – 15 Years of Experience - 15528 ...................................................................... 3392 Maria Lindberg, Arne Larsson, Per Lidar, Bo Wirendal

A 'Method Based Survey' Succeeds in a Spanish Scrap Clearance Project - 15664 ............................................................................. 3397 Rafael Garcia-Bermejo Fernandez, Jose Luis De Diego Compadre

Sustainable Disposition of Unneeded Materials and Chemicals at the Y-12 National Security Complex - 15181 ............................ 3408 Jan Jackson, Jeannette Widman

Technetium Incorporation in Glass for the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant - 15066 ........................... 3415 Albert Kruger, Dongsang Kim, Ashutosh Goel

SESSION PANEL: US DOE MIXED WASTE: ADDRESSING PROPOSALS FOR DEALING WITH PROBLEMATIC WASTE STREAMS AND POLICY CHANGES AFFECTING WASTE DISPOSITION - 079 LANL Mixed Waste Management Operations Improvements and Future State ................................................................................. 3421 Michelle Coriz

Problematic Waste Stream Disposition Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project........................................................................... 3431 Bruno Zovi

Transuranic Waste Status & Waste Consolidation Prior to Classification ........................................................................................... 3438 John Gilmour

The Disposition of Former "No Path To Disposal" Wastes - A 2015 Update........................................................................................ 3443 Scott Anderson

Whats New? - Complex Treatment and Disposal in One Location ........................................................................................................ 3448 Kenneth Grumski, Renee Echols

A Nuclear Services and Waste Management Company - Retrieval and Treatment of Problematic MLLW Streams..................... 3454 Renee Echols

SESSION 080 – REGULATORY AND PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS FOR LLW/ILW Maintaining Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Disposition Pathways in Today’s Uncertain Budgetary Environment - 15129 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3462 Lori West, Ty Blackford, Connie Simiele, Don Moak

Integration of Performance Assessments and 3116 Basis Documents within the Savannah River Site Liquid Waste Facilities - 15375 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3471 Steven Thomas

Not All Greater-Than-Class C (GTCC) Waste Streams are Created Equal - 15373............................................................................ 3482 Terrence Brimfield, Melanie Wong, James Shaffner, Gregory Suber, Hans Arlt, James Kennedy, Christopher Grossman

Waste Management Attendant Mercury Issues involving Mercury-Contaminated Debris at the Y-12 Site, Oak Ridge, Tennessee - 15573 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 3495 John Wrapp, Michael Kane, John Witzeman, Debbie Browning

Radium/Barium Waste Project - 15043 ..................................................................................................................................................... 3506 Kip McDowell, Mark Ellefson, Kent McDonald

Texas Authorizes Disposal of Large Quantities of Depleted Uranium at WCS - 15626....................................................................... 3514 Scott Kirk, William Dornsife, Christopher Shaw

Licensing of the National Repository for LILW Waste in Bulgaria - 15609 ......................................................................................... 3529 Enrique Biurrun, Ira Stefanova, Emiliano Gonzalez Herranz

Sampling and Analysis of Cyber Media to Determine Whether it Meets the Definition of a Hazardous Waste 15208 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3541 Dwight Stockham

SESSION 081 – PROGRESS AND UPDATES AT THE HANFORD WASTE TREATMENT PLANT Progress Update for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project - 15593 ........................................................ 3552 William Hamel, Delmar Noyes

Implementing a Low Activity Waste Direct Feed Capability in the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project - 15594 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3559 Jeffrey Bruggeman, William Hamel, Jason Young

Authorization to Proceed with Production Engineering for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant’s HLW Facility - 15595.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3565 Langdon Holton, William Hamel, Jim McCormick-Barger, Wahed Abdul

US DOE Safety Design Strategy Review and Approval beyond Critical Decision-3 for the High-Level Waste Facility - 15525.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3569 Cheryl Arm, James Dahl, Barry Burrow

Plan for Resolution of Technical Issues at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project - 15596 ................... 3578 William Hamel, Langdon Holton, Wahed Abdul, Paul Hirschman

Managing the Interfaces for Successful Waste Treatment Operations at the River Protection Project - 15347 .............................. 3584 Garth Duncan, William Condon, Briant Charboneau

Advances in the Glass Formulations for the Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant - 15053.......................... 3592 Albert Kruger, John Vienna, Dongsang Kim

Integrated Sampling and Data Flow for Hanford Vitrification - 15337................................................................................................. 3597 Aruna Arakali, Peter Benson, Jeffrey Markillie, Allison Latham

SESSION 082 – IAEA SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION – INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES (URLS) – PART 1 OF 2: EXPERIENCE GAINED The Use of Underground Research Facilities for the Demonstration of Safety of Geological Disposal - 15094................................ 3611 Gerard Bruno, Andrew Orrell

The Role of Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory for the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management´s Research, Developing and Demonstration Programme for a Final Repository of Spent Nuclear Fuel - 15378 .................................................. 3616 Erik Thurner

Current Status of R&D Activities and Future Plan and Role of JAEA’s Two Generic URLs - 15356 .............................................. 3631 Kaoru Koide, Hiroaki Ito, Hideaki Ohsawa, Kenji Tanai, Morimasa Naito, Yoichi Miyamoto, Kozo Sugihara, Takeshi Semba

The Fourth Decade of Underground Research at the Grimsel Test Site - What We Have Learned and Where We Go from Here - 15075................................................................................................................................................................................... 3646 Ingo Blechschmidt, Stratis Vomvoris

The Underground Research Facilities (URF) Network – Illustrating the IAEA’s Concept and Use of Professional Networks - 15382 .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3653 Stefan Mayer, Paul Degnan

KAERI Underground Research Tunnel (KURT) - Phase II Activities for HLW Disposal Technology Development in Korea - 15253............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3667 Geon Young Kim, Jong-Youl Lee, Kyungsu Kim

SESSION 083 – INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF HLW TANKS Hanford Single-Shell Tanks Leak Causes and Locations - 15509........................................................................................................... 3672 Crystal Girardot, Theodore Venetz, Jim Field, Don Harlow, Dennis Washenfelder, John Schofield, Jeremy Johnson

Minimizing Environmental Risk through the Use of Evaporation - 15090............................................................................................ 3682 Jeremy Johnson

SESSION 084 – GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION PROJECTS Effectiveness of an In-Situ Permeable Reactive Barrier in Removing Strontium-90 from Groundwater - 15418 ........................... 3686 Art Lee, Virginia Rohay, Bruce Williams, Larry Hulstrom, Bill Faught, Vince Vermeul, Mark Williams, Jim Szecsody, Michael Thompson

Evaluation of a Low Cost Humate Solution as an In Situ Amendment to Enhance Attenuation of Uranium in an Acidic Plume - 15445 .................................................................................................................................................................................... 3699 Miles Denham, Margaret Millings, Mark Amidon, Brian Looney, Warren Hyde, Richard Walker, Hansell Gonzalez Raymat

Dissimilatory Iodate Reduction by Hanford Microbial Isolates - 15226................................................................................................ 3713 Joshua Ellis, Alex Dodwell, Danielle Saunders, Brady Lee, Hope Lee

Finding Balance between Biological Groundwater Treatment and Treated Injection Water - 15237............................................... 3727 Mark Carlson, Eli Ludwig, Sally Simmons,Ken Martins, James Geiger, Kellin Nielsen, Louis Watkins, Phillip McFee, John Morse, Mark Byrnes, Charles Miller

A Performance Assessment Approach for Pump-and-Treat Systems - 15132 ...................................................................................... 3736 Michael Truex, Chris Johnson, Michael Nimmons, Dave Becker, Hope Lee

Concluding a Steam Injection Remediation Project at a DNAPL Source Zone at the Savannah River Site - 15303 ....................... 3743 Branden Kramer, James Kupar, Jeffrey Ross, Joao Cardoso-Neto, Dennis Jackson, Brian Looney, Karen Adams

Groundwater Remediation at the Fernald Preserve, Cincinnati, Ohio - Modeling and Resulting 2014 Well Field Operational Changes - 15324 ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3755 Ken Broberg, Gwen Hooten, William Hertel

The Long Road to Groundwater RODs on the ORR: Development of a Regional Groundwater Model - 15632............................. 3767 Samantha Pack, Alauddin Khan, Lynn Sims, Steve Haase

SESSION 085 – D&D OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Humboldt Bay Power Plant Decommissioning Transition to Civil Works - 15039 .............................................................................. 3781 John Kristofzski, Kerry Rod, Matt King

Chooz-A-Steam Generators Characterization - 15205............................................................................................................................. 3805 Laurie Aitammar

Latest Experience from José Cabrera Reactor Vessel Dismantling Project - 15214 ............................................................................ 3814 Joseph Boucau, Per Segerud, Stefan Fallstrom

Market Analysis of a Looming Crisis – Decommissioning Trends and a Shrinking Crew - 15276 .................................................... 3823 Jas Devgun

Guidance for Decommissioning Plants Entering Safe Storage - 15280 .................................................................................................. 3841 Richard Reid, Richard McGrath

Fukushima Inspection Manipulator - 15485 ............................................................................................................................................. 3846 Matt Cole, Takashi Mitsui, Toshinori Dekura, Yuji Morigaki, Marc Rood

SESSION 086 – WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS Assessing and Improving Regulatory Communication Processes: The Case of the WIPP CRA - 15151........................................... 3854 Steve Kouba, Mindy Toothman, Joshua Barbour, Eric James, John Callicoat

The Role of Client Engagement in Successful Project Delivery - 15599................................................................................................. 3867 Kapila Fernando, Con Lyras, Fred Brown, Andy Garcia

Creating and Sustaining a Safety Conscious Work Environment - 15240............................................................................................. 3875 Mike Gaden, Chris Shannon

Stop Managing People, Start Managing Agreements - 15081 ................................................................................................................. 3889 Laurie Ford

SESSION 087 – THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADVISORY BOARDS: THE US DOE EM SITE SPECIFIC ADVISORY BOARD EXPERIENCE Diversity & the Citizens' Advisory Board: Aligning Disparate Views for Better Results - 15469 ...................................................... 3903 Allison Scott Majure, Mona Varela, Menice Santistevan

US DOE’s Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board: 20 Years of Community Involvement 15377 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3908 David Borak, Elizabeth Schmitt, Alexandra Gilliland, Sayoh Mansaray

Online Meeting Technology for the Savannah River Citizens Advisory Board - 15348 ...................................................................... 3921 Nina Spinelli

How Web Based GIS was Used in Waste Disposal Option Discussions to Develop a Better Recommendation 15421 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3931 Ben Peterson

SESSION 088 – CROSSCUTTING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT RISK MANAGEMENT AND MODELING PART 2 OF 3 The Cementitious Barriers Partnership Experimental Programs and Software Advancing DOE's Waste Disposal/Tank Closure Efforts - 15436 ...................................................................................................................................................... 3941 Heather Burns, Greg Flach, Christine Langton, Frank Smith, David Kosson, Kevin Brown, Eric Samson, Pramod Mallick

US EPA Superfund Radiation Risk Assessment Update: New, Revised, and Upcoming Tools - 15350............................................. 3955 Stuart Walker

Uncertainty in Decommissioning, the Benefits of 3D Simulation - 15124 .............................................................................................. 3968 Lawrence Wharmby, Luc Ardellier

Pumping Optimization Model for Pump and Treat Systems - 15091..................................................................................................... 3974 Steve Baker, Marinko Karanovic, Kris Ivarson, Charles Miller, Matthew Tonkin

SESSION 089 – CROSSCUTTING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS RISK MANAGEMENT AND MODELING PART 3 OF 3 Conceptual Model and Risk Assessment of Waste Package Evolution - 15643..................................................................................... 3983 Joseph Rustick, James Clarke, David Kosson, Michael T. Ryan, Steven Krahn

VOLUME 6 Development of Three Dimensional Models for WIPP Performance Assessment Using PFLOTRAN - 15073 ................................ 3992 Heeho Park, Glenn Hammond, Todd Zeitler, Kristopher Kuhlman

SORTIE DB – Source Term Integrated Environmental Management Disposal Facility Database - 15249 ...................................... 4002 Kenneth Redus, Brian Demonia, Joseph Birchfield, John Hampshire, Susan M DePaoli, Angela Mulliins, Jetara Brown, Jonathon Julius

DOE Site Remedial Management Optimization Utilizing on the Cloud Computing Systems - 15676 ............................................... 4015 Tad Fox, Larry Deschaine, Theodore Lillys

SESSION 090A – POSTERS: D&D - TECHNOLOGIES Decommissioning of a Facility in a Historical Reactor at SRS: Achieving Both Historical Significance Preservation and Effective In-Situ Decommissioning - 15275........................................................................................................................................ 4030 Mary Flora, Christopher Bergren, Tony Long, John Blankenship, Karen Adams, Michael Griffith

Decommissioning Sodium Dump Tanks - 15547....................................................................................................................................... 4036 Karl Shuler

Measurement of the Plutonium Hold-Up in Glove Box before Dismantling - 15111............................................................................ 4053 Jean Chevillon, Raphaël Oddou, Maxime Vincent, Hubert Schoech

Decommissioning of the NPP A-1 Heavy Water Management System - 15121..................................................................................... 4061 Jan Medved, Jan Rezbarik, Ladislav Vargovcik, Igor Vykukel

SESSION 090B – POSTERS: APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE TECHNOLOGIES IN D&D Robotic Systems for Remote Characterization and Decommissioning - 15102..................................................................................... 4075 Simon Watson, Barry Lennox, Alexandru Stancu

Guide to Specifying a Powered Manipulator for Operation in Hazardous Environments - 15510 .................................................... 4081 Scott Adams, Ian Crabbe, Shannon Callahan

SESSION 090C – POSTERS: DECOMMISSIONING SUPPORTING PROCESSES Identification and Prioritization of High Risk Deteriorating Support Infrastructure - 15475............................................................ 4088 David Bender, Hai Nguyen

Establishment of the Final End State for Decommissioning of Reactors at SRS: Collaboration between Stakeholders, Regulators, and the Federal Government - 15279............................................................................................................ 4094 Mary Flora, Christopher Bergren, Angelia Adams

Setting an Optimal Procedure for Transferring Intermedaire Radioactive Effluents: Contribution of Laboratory Experiments - 15234 ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 4100 Florence Goutelard, Rebecca Glevarec, Sandrine Graebling, Laurence De Maquille, Philippe Deloffre, René Brennetot, Michel K. Jeanjacques, Fabrice Ferrand

Process Systematic Research Initiatives on Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants - 15493........................................................ 4107 Jun-Hyung Ryu

Application of the FW-CADIS Variance Reduction Method to Calculate a Precise N-Flux Distribution for the FRJ-2 Research Reactor - 15603................................................................................................................................................................. 4111 Faezeh Abbasi, Rahim Nabbi, Jiri Ulrich, Bruno Thomauske, Frank Charlier

SESSION 090D – POSTERS: EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN D&D Mathematically Determined Scavenger Impacts during Ozonalysis of Oxalic Acid Waste Slurries - 15600 .................................... 4123 Edward Ketusky

Development and Application of Collimated Spectrometric Systems for the Characterization of Radioactive Contamination of Decommissioned Facilities - 15030 .............................................................................................................................. 4135 Oleg Ivanov, Victor Potapov, Vyacheslav Stepanov, Anatoly Volkovich, Ilia Semin, Iurii Simirskii, Alexey Stepanov

Reactor Pond Walls Deposit Investigation during Dismantling MR Reactor - 15028.......................................................................... 4148 Alexey Stepanov, Iurii Simirskii, Ilia Semin, Anatoly Volkovich

Enhanced Chemical CRUD Decontamination Combined with Electrokinetic Process - 15242 .......................................................... 4155 Won-Seok Kim, Seongsik Nam, Wooyong Um

SESSION 091 – POSTERS: PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION Testing and Certification of the SAVY 4000 Nuclear Material Container for DOT Type A Liquid Transport 15636 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4164 Tristan Karns, Nick Guadagnoli, Curtis Marks, Timothy Stone, Jon Teague, Paul Smith

Remote Monitoring of Alpha Gamma Hot Cell Facility by ARG-US RFID System - 15177............................................................... 4175 Hok Lee, Brian Craig, Justin Scherer, John Hlotke, Hanchung Tsai, Yung Liu, James Schuler, Kevin Byrne

High Burn-Up Spent Nuclear Fuel Vibration Integrity Study - 15134 .................................................................................................. 4180 Jy-An Wang, Hong Wang, Hao Jiang, Bruce Bevard, Robert Howard, John Scaglione

A Whole Wilderness of Warning: Assessing Economic Consequences of Nuclear Releases - 15494.................................................. 4191 Fred Dilger, James Ballard, Bob Halstead

SESSION 092A – POSTERS: SPECIAL TOPICS AND TRACK CROSS CUTTING TECHNOLOGY TOPICS Performance Assessment Modernization at WIPP - 15077 ..................................................................................................................... 4207 Todd Zeitler, Thomas Kirchner, Glenn Hammond, Heeho Park

Approach for the Isotopic Characterization of Irradiated Start-Up Sources for Disposal at WIPP - 15674 .................................... 4215 Alex Feldman, Anthony Nettleton

Calculation of Permeability for Porous Media - 15108 ............................................................................................................................ 4222 Cheo Kyung Lee, Sung Paal Yim, Sophy Sok

Determination of the Effective Elastic Coefficients for Heterogeneous Media - 15109........................................................................ 4230 Cheo Kyung Lee, Borey Long

Application of Polymers for the Emergency Damage Control and Remediation at Nuclear and Chemical Industry Sites - 15259................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4243 Yury Pokhitonov, Valery Romanovsky, Dennis Kelley, Victor Leonov, Valeriyan Kapustin, Vadim Starchenko

Seismic Design of a Nuclear Waste Repository against an Earthquake Induced Rock Shear Load - 15346 ..................................... 4254 Young-Chul Choi, Heui-Joo Choi

Capture of Volatile Fission Products: Present Status and Future Perspectives - 15680 ...................................................................... 4262 Giorgio De Angelis, Carlo Fedeli, Mauro Capone, Elena Macerata, Eros Mossini, Mario Mariani

SESSION 092B – POSTERS: IMPACT ON HLW MANAGEMENT OF FUTURE FUEL CYCLES Effectiveness of Actinide Management in Fast Reactors over a Finite Recycling Period - 15123....................................................... 4272 Benjamin Lindley, Mark Nelson, Carlo Fiorina, Robert Gregg, Fausto Franceschini, Geoffrey Parks

SESSION PANEL: US DOE NEVADA NATIONAL SECURITY SITE (NNSS) – A FOCUS ON SAFE AND RESPONSIBLE WASTE ACCEPTANCE/DISPOSAL - 093 Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) - A Focus on Safe & Responsible Waste Acceptance/Disposal ............................................. 4286 Christine Gelles

Nevada National Security Site Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site Safe, Secure and Responsible Disposal..................... 4291 Scott Wade

Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Site - Environmental and Waste Management Perspective ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4301 Teri Browdy

NNSS LLW Disposal .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4304 Darrell Lacy

Nevada National Security Site Clark Countys Involvement.................................................................................................................... 4308 Phil Klevorick

Nevada Site Specific Advisory Board Perspectives on Low-Level Waste Disposal at the Nevada National Security Site .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4312 Donna Hruska

SESSION PANEL: PROGRESS TOWARDS CLEAN-UP OF THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NPP AND VICINITY - 094 Nuclear Damage Compensation & Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation (NDF) and "Strategic Plan for Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi NPS" ......................................................................................................................................... 4316 Kazuhiro Suzuki

Moving the Needle in Cleaning up Fukushima Daiichi NPP ................................................................................................................... 4327 John Raymont

Water Treatment Challenges at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Facility ............................................................................................ 4336 James Braun

Remediation Challenges in Japans Special Decontamination (Evacuation) Area ................................................................................ 4346 Steve Rima

National Laboratory Capabilities in Support of Fukushima .................................................................................................................. 4355 Wayne Johnson

SESSION PANEL: INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN FUEL-CYCLE ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY COOPERATION (IFNEC) - 095 International Co-Operation in Fuel-Cycle Activities, Including the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC)................................................................................................................................................................................... 4361 Douglas Tonkay

International Co-Operation in Fuel-Cycle Activities, Including the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC)................................................................................................................................................................................... 4364 John Mathieson

SESSION 096 – SUCCESS STORIES AND LESSONS LEARNED IN PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION Transport of French PWR Steam Generators to Very Low Level Waste Disposal - 15203 ................................................................ 4371 Aurelie Brasch-Serres, Catherine Mialkowski

The Container Database – Life-Cycle Management of Container Inventories at the Hanford Site - 15131...................................... 4382 Lori West, Ty Blackford, Richard Self, John Lavender, Connie Simiele, Terry Vaughn

An Experimental Program to Characterize Confined Eplosions of Hydrogen/Oxygen Mixtures in the Context of Radioactive Material - 15125....................................................................................................................................................................... 4393 Jean-Michel Mure, Jean-Paul Groo, Thierry Delon

SESSION 097 – USED NUCLEAR FUEL – TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES The Transportation Factor in Site Evaluations for Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage and Disposal Facilities - 15460............................. 4406 Fred Dilger, Bob Halstead, James Ballard

Regulatory Inspection of the Provision of Disposability Assessment and Waste Packaging Advice in the UK to Provide Confidence that Higher Activity Waste Stored on Licensed Sites will be Suitable for Safe Handling, Transport, Storage and Disposal - 15088................................................................................................................................................... 4424 William Turner, Gavin Thomson, Helen Milburn

Overview of the DOE Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project - 15444.............................................................. 4435 John Wagner, Joe Carter, Matt Feldman, William Nutt, Jeff Williams, Robert Howard

Analysis of Travel Logistics for Transportation of Used Nuclear Fuel in the Continental United States - 15179 ............................ 4444 Christopher Wentland, Grant Hicks, William Nutt

Next-Generation System Analysis Model for Studying Alternative Waste Management Systems - 15232 ....................................... 4451 William Nutt, Brian Craig, Kathy Simunich, Evan Vander Zee, Michelle Kehrer, James St. Aubin

Preliminary Evaluation of Removing Used Nuclear Fuel from Shutdown Sites - 15568 ..................................................................... 4464 Steven Maheras, Ralph Best, Steven Ross, Jeff England, L. Mel Massaro, Philip Jensen

Laying the Groundwork for a Large-Scale Spent Fuel Transportation System - 15408...................................................................... 4475 Matt Feldman, John Wagner, Steven Maheras, Jay Jones, Erica Bickford, Kevin Connolly, Patrick Schwab

Issue-Focused Stakeholder Collaboration: Reaching Consensus on SNF Transportation Operational Practices 15465 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4481 Judith Holm, Jay Jones, Tim Runyon, Elizabeth Helvey

SESSION 098 – IAEA SPECIAL TOPIC SESSION – INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RESEARCH LABORATORIES (URLS) PART 2 OF 2: PROGRESS AND PLANS Use of Generic and Site-Specific Underground Research Laboratories to Support Siting, Design, and Safety Assessment - 15417 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4487 Robert Mackinnon, Stefan Mayer, Abraham Van Luik, David Sevougian

Underground Test Coordination at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - 15229 ......................................................................................... 4506 Douglas Weaver, Brian Dozier, Roger Nelson

The Bukov Underground Research Facility as Part of the Czech Republic’s DGR Development Programme 15644 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4520 Jiri Slovak

An Underground Laboratory in the Context of Salt Disposal Research - 15549 .................................................................................. 4527 Frank Hansen

Strategic Considerations for Developing Future Underground Research Facilities - 15114 ............................................................... 4538 Andrew Orrell, Gerard Bruno

SESSION 099 – SNF MANAGEMENT: STORAGE OPTIONS AND CHALLENGES Nuclear Fuel Storage and Transportation Planning Project Strategic Crosscutting Activities - 15180............................................. 4544 William Nutt, John Wagner, Matt Feldman, Joe Carter, Robert Howard, Josh Jarrell

Twenty Years of Dry Interim Storage of SNF in Germany History and Developments - 15575......................................................... 4553 Christoph Gastl, Julia Palmes

AREVA TN Universal Centralized Storage System - 15581.................................................................................................................... 4559 Zhaojuan He, William Bracey

The Decommissioning Imperative – Motivating Progress in US Used Fuel Management - 15185 ..................................................... 4569 Rod McCullum, Terry Pickens

In-Situ Visual Inspection of the CASTOR V/21 Used Nuclear Fuel Storage Cask: A Demonstration of Camera System Capabilities - 15505 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4581 David D. Tolman, Richard Williams, Jack Tolman, Al Carlson

Solutions for Management of Defective Fuel Assemblies - 15318 ........................................................................................................... 4594 Vanessa Vo Van, Isabelle Morlaes

A Study of Transfer of UNF from Non-Disposable Canisters - 15388 ................................................................................................... 4604 Sven Bader, Adam Howell, Ernesto Faillace

SESSION 100 – GEOLOGIC DISPOSAL OF HLW, SNF/UNF AND LONG-LIVED ALPHA/TRU The February 2014 Accidents at WIPP (What Happened and What We Know about Why) - 15024 ............................................... 4619 Roger Nelson,Russell Patterson, Abraham Van Luik

Disposing of Waste Package with Respect to Physico-Chemical Characteristics - 15041.................................................................... 4633 Marc Butez, Isabelle Munier, Valérie Deydier, Marie-Ange Romero, Stephan Schumacher, Sylvie Voinis

Update on Cigéo, the French Geological Disposal Project - 15067 ......................................................................................................... 4643 Gérald Ouzounian, Alain Harman, Thibaud Labalette

The Role of Independent Monitoring in Maintaining Community Support through a Radiological Incident – A WIPP Case Study - 15107 ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4649 Punam Thakur, Russell Hardy, Roger Nelson, Abraham Van Luik

German Research & Development for High Level Waste in Light of the New Site Selection Process - 15516 ................................. 4656 Thilo Von Berlepsch, Wilhelm Bollingerfehr

Andra’s Strategy and Approach for Operational Safety of French Underground Facility Cigéo - 15127 ........................................ 4667 Myriam Rabardy, Sylvie Voinis, Fabrice Boissier

Andra’s Strategy and Approach for Post-Closure Safety of Geological Disposal - 15128 ................................................................... 4676 Lise Griffault, Sylvie Voinis

WIPP - February 2014 Operational Events and Compliance Recertification Application (CRA) 2014 - 15293 .............................. 4688 Ross Kirkes, Russell Patterson

SESSION 101 – STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF TRU Load Planning in the Dark: RH-TRU Waste Container Load Planning at Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico - 15116 .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4693 Randell Salyer, Jesse Bland, Betty Humphrey, Michael Spoerner, Warren Strong

Lessons Learned in the Hot Cell at the Transuranic Waste Processing Center - 15336 ...................................................................... 4700 Jeff Prince, Ronald Gentry

Managing TRU Waste Processing and Storage Issues/Challenges - 15487............................................................................................ 4715 Ronald Gentry, Laura Wilkerson, Frederick Heacker

SESSION PANEL: CHALLENGES IN HIGH LEVEL TANK WASTE MANAGEMENT: STARTUP AND COMMISSIONING - 102 EM Commissioning Activities - Waste Management 2015 ...................................................................................................................... 4725 Richard Lagdon

AREVAs Nuclear Processing Facilities: Commissioning & Startup Experience.................................................................................. 4731 Frederic Bailly

Salt Waste Processing Facility Technical Approach to Start-Up and Commissioning ........................................................................ 4741 Pamela Marks

Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) Commissioning.................................................................................................................... 4747 Joel Case

SESSION 103 – WASTE CERTIFICATION, ACCEPTANCE AND DISPOSAL FOR LLW/ILW Low and Intermediate Level Short Lived Waste Disposal in France: Improving Confidence - 15254 .............................................. 4750 Michel Dutzer, Patrice Torres, Bruno Cahen

Centre de la Manche Disposal Facility after Ten Years of Institutional Control - 15255 .................................................................... 4755 Florence Espiet-Subert, Bruno Cahen, Alain Andre, Albert Marchiol, Denise Ricard, Catherine Dressayre

The Cires Facility in Morvilliers: from a VLL Waste Disposal Facility to the Development of Industrial Activities 15252 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4765 Michel Dutzer, Patrice Torres, Bruno Cahen

Defining WAC for Interim Storage Dedicated to Tritium Decay - 15164.............................................................................................. 4770 Christelle Decanis, Daniel Canas, Fanny Derasse, Didier Dall’Ava, Jerome Pamela

VOLUME 7 OECD NEA Radioactive Waste Repository Metadata Management (RepMet) Initiative (2014-2018) - 15614................................ 4778 Claudio Pescatore, Alexander Carter

The German Product Quality Control of the Compacted Metallic Nuclear Waste - 15311 ................................................................ 4784 Yuliya Aksyutina, Ivan Fast, Holger Tietze-Jaensch, François Guillaumin, Philippe Pinson

Improvements to the Operational Efficiency of the Portsmouth “Blue Box” Assay System - 15162.................................................. 4791 Alan Simpson, Martin Clapham, Alexander Couture, David Dreher, Dean Lobdell

SESSION 104 – WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVES OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT – CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Assessment of Regulatory Support Program Based on the 10 Years Joint Cooperation between Norway and Russian Federation - 15635 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4806 Katarzyna Siegien-Iwaniuk, Malgorzata Sneve, Nataliya Shandala, Maria Cemenova

The US DOE-EM International Program - 15026 .................................................................................................................................... 4813 Rosa Elmetti, Ana Han, Monica Regalbuto, Jay Roach

Radioactive Waste Management: Taking-Up Present and Future Challenges - 15120........................................................................ 4828 Jean-Michel Grygiel, Jean-Michel Romary

SESSION 105 – NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ONSITE SNF/UNF STORAGE System Impacts of Accelerated Transfer of Used Nuclear Fuel to Dry Storage - 15220 ...................................................................... 4842 Jeffrey Fortner, William Nutt

Developing Generic Design Alternatives for Dry Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel at an Interim Storage Facility 15480 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4857 Donald Lewis, Jack Clemmens, Jeff Williams, James George

Vacuum Drying of Spent Fuel Storage Canisters/Casks – "Just How Much Water Could be Left in There, Anyway?" - 15233......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4872 Harold E. Adkins Jr, Judith Cuta

SESSION 106 – ER CHALLENGES – ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO ACHIEVING END STATE Benefits of Less Intrusive Remediation Alternatives; A Review of Case Studies in Oak Ridge, Tennessee - 15482......................... 4888 Mark Peterson, Teresa Mathews, Eric Pierce

Using Spatial Statistical Methods to Determine an Effective Minimum Detectable Activity - 15681................................................. 4896 Lynn Kidman, Matthew Knop

Legacy Mercury: A Watershed Scale Cleanup Challenge - 15559 ......................................................................................................... 4907 Eric Pierce, David Watson, Teresa Mathews, Mark Peterson

Novel Inorganic Sorbent for Iodine Removal in Pump and Treat System - 15020............................................................................... 4915 Tatiana Levitskaia, Syandev Chatterjee, James Peterson, Natasha Pence, Jesus Romero

SESSION 107 – DEEP VADOSE ZONE CHARACTERIZATION AND REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES Systems-based Approach to Understanding Technetium Immobilization in the Subsurface - 15326 ................................................ 4927 Danielle Saunders, Brady Lee, Joshua Ellis, Sabrina Saurey, Elsa Cordova, Hope Lee

Scaling Gas-Phase Treatment of Vadose-Zone Contaminants for Field Application at the Hanford Site - 15133........................... 4938 Michael Truex, Jim Szecsody

The Influence of Humic Acid and Colloidal Silica on the Sorption of U(VI) onto SRS Sediments Collected from the F/H Area - 15499........................................................................................................................................................................................... 4951 Yelena Katsenovich, Hansell Gonzalez Raymat, Miles Denham, Ravi Krishna Prasanth Gudavalli, Leonel Lagos

Humic Acid and Microbial Redox Influence on Iodine Speciation at the 200 West Hanford Site, WA - 15282 ............................... 4958 Joshua Ellis, Erin Moser, Elsa Cordova, Brady Lee, Hope Lee

SESSION 108 – D&D OF US DOE FACILITIES Management of Technetium Contaminated Demolition Debris from the Gaseous Diffusion Plants at the East Tennessee Technology Park - 15422 ........................................................................................................................................................... 4967 Scott Anderson, J Lane Butler, Michael Ferrari, Annette Primrose, John Wrapp

Evaluation of Decontamination and Decommissioning Alternatives for a Department of Energy Nuclear Material Processing Facility - 15265........................................................................................................................................................................... 4978 Mark Phifer, Glenn Taylor

Radiometric Characterization Process for Locating Radioactivity Hold-up and Measuring Non-uniformly Distributed Sources - 15342......................................................................................................................................................................... 4992 Richard Creed, Tom Donohoue, Erik Lindberg, Marc Looman, E Ray Martin, John Mason, Daniel Pancake, Cynthia Rock, Douglas Walraven

Integrating Commercially Available Remote Systems to Address Current D&D Challenges - 15399............................................... 5007 Laurie Judd, Andrew Szilagyi, Paula James, John Ritter, Ian Seed

Hanford Site Asbestos Management Lessons Learned - 15183............................................................................................................... 5020 Dale McKenney, Al Farabee, Wayne Toebe, Thomas Laubenthal

Deactivation of the K-27 Building at the East Tennessee Technology Park - 15554............................................................................. 5029 Steven Dahlgren

SESSION PANEL: UK/USA PARTNERING ACROSS THE POND – ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND LESSONS LEARNED - 110 United States of America and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Partnering Across the Pond ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5037 Rodrigo Rimando

UK and USA Partnering Across the Pond - Technology Sharing........................................................................................................... 5044 Sharon Marra

UK and USA Partnering Across the Pond - SRS and NDA - Successfully Sharing Resources and Lessons Learned...................... 5048 Terrel Spears

Partnering across the Pond ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5052 Graham Jonsson

UK US Partnering Across the Pond ........................................................................................................................................................... 5055 Anthony Banford

UK / USA Partnering Across the Pond ...................................................................................................................................................... 5060 Keith Miller

SESSION PANEL: CANADA/US – BENEFITS OF A BILATERAL AGREEMENT - 111 Implementing our Statement of Intent: U.S. Department of Energy and AECL/Canadian Nuclear Laboratories ......................... 5064 Joan Miller

SESSION PANEL: THE FUTURE OF CONSENT-BASED DISPOSAL SITING AND DISCUSSION OF THE ALTERNATIVES - 112 The Future (and Past) of Consent-based Siting Processes....................................................................................................................... 5073 Daniel Metlay

The Future of Consent-Based Disposal Siting and the Alternatives....................................................................................................... 5078 Bob Halstead

The Future of Consent-Based Disposal Sting and Discussion on the Alternatives ............................................................................... 5081 Carl Brakenhielm

Future of Consent-Based Disposal Siting................................................................................................................................................... 5084 John Heaton

AFCI Texas Consolidated Interim Storage Project.................................................................................................................................. 5093 Monty Humble

Leveraging Host Communities to Support Consent Based Siting........................................................................................................... 5102 James Hamilton

SESSION PANEL: ESTABLISHING AND SUSTAINING A REPORTING CULTURE THROUGH HUMAN PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT - 113 Establishing a Reporting Culture Through a "Just" Environment ....................................................................................................... 5112 Jim Schildknecht, Joe Estey, Mike Hull, Stephen Varnell, Tara Neider, Jan Preston

The Importance of Culture.......................................................................................................................................................................... 5114 Joe Estey

Human Performance and Lessons Learned from TRUPACT-III Fabrication ..................................................................................... 5119 Tara Neider

Establishing a Reporting Culture through a Just Environment ............................................................................................................. 5124 Stephen Varnell

SESSION PANEL: THURSDAY US DOE FEATURED SITE: LEXINGTON, KY OFFICE (PORTSMOUTH & PADUCAH SITES) - 114 Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office : Succeeding through Changing Conditions ............................................................................... 5129 William Murphie

Paducah Site.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5138 Jennifer Woodard

Portsmouth D&D Project ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5144 Dennis Carr

Paducah Deactivation Project ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5157 Mark Duff

DUF6 Conversion Project............................................................................................................................................................................. 5167 John Woolery

SESSION ROUNDTABLE: WASTE MANAGEMENT ENERGY FACILITIES CONTRACTOR OPERATING GROUP (EFCOG) - 115 Fluor-B&W Portsmouth .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5172 Dean Lobdell

Waste Management Working Group 2015 EFCOG Work Shop............................................................................................................ 5185 Sonny Goldston

Hanford Waste Program and D4 Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 5194 Connie Simiele

EFCOG Waste Management 2015.............................................................................................................................................................. 5206 Mark Duff

Idaho Clean-Up Project : D&D Activities ................................................................................................................................................. 5211 Tammy Hobbes

East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) Project Status ........................................................................................................................ 5216 John Wrapp, Scott Anderson

SESSION 116 – THE URANIUM INDUSTRY AND NORM WASTE ISSUES Assessment of Defense-Related Uranium Mines in the US and Other DOE LM Domestic and International Uranium Initiatives - 15335 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5221 John Elmer, David Shafer, Mike Butherus, John Ford

Uranium Mining and Norm, a North American Perspective - 15545..................................................................................................... 5235 Steven Brown

Optimised NORM Waste Management Taking Benefit of 60 Years of Nuclear Waste Experience - 15357 ..................................... 5247 Arne Larsson, Chris Hannon

Separation and Recovery of Uranium from Residues to Allow Disposal as VLLW - 15379 ............................................................... 5252 Arne Larsson, Maria Lindberg, Bengt Lilljha

NDA Challenges during Cleanup of the Hanford 618-10 Burial Ground Trenches - 15542 ............................................................... 5262 Bruce Gillespie, Timothy Southworth, Daniel Haggard

SESSION 117 – LLW/ILW WASTE CHARACTERIZATION – NEUTRON ASSAY TOPICS Impact of Lump Characteristics on Self-Shielding Corrections of Active Neutron Interrogation on Fissile Material in Waste - 15405............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5269 Ludovic Bourva, Daniel Murphy, Stephen Croft

Model-Based Approaches to Calibration and Certification of Nondestructive Assay Systems - 15615 ............................................. 5284 Joseph Wachter, Sean Stanfield, Ludovic Bourva, Ram Venkataraman, Stephen Croft, Joe Harvill, Patrick Chard, Marcel Villani

A Study of Differential Die Away Performance with Neutron Interrogation Pulse Width - 15407.................................................... 5289 Ludovic Bourva, Rosemary Lester, Ken Lambert, Christophe Bedouet, Bruno Vernet

SESSION 118 – GLOBAL INSIGHTS INTO GEOLOGICAL DISPOSAL SITE SELECTION Repository Planning for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Insights from U.S. and International Programs - 15638 .................................................................................................................................................................. 5300 Margaret Macdonell, Natalia Saraeva, Michelle Raymond, Young-Soo Chang, Rebecca Stohr

The Root Causes of Siting Failures in Nuclear Waste Management - 15652......................................................................................... 5309 James Voss, Ralph Stoll, John Greeves

Update on Site Selection for Canada's National Repository for Used Nuclear Fuel - 15481 ............................................................... 5316 Jo-Ann Facella, Mahrez Ben Belfadhel, Bob Watts

Siting Considerations for Consolidated Storage of Used Fuel in the United States - Assessing the Impact of Key Developments since Release of the Blue Ribbon Commission Report in 2012 - 15458......................................................................... 5325 Chuck Bernhard

Remaking the US Nuclear Waste Program: A Window Opportunity for Change? - 15352................................................................ 5333 Bob Halstead, Alvin Mushkatel, Kathy Thomas

Site Selection in Germany - Start of the Evaluation of the Site Selection Law - 15561 ........................................................................ 5353 Bruno Thomauske, Frank Charlier

Robust Disposal Concept, Uniform Regulations, and Trust in the Messenger; Three Fundamental Building Blocks for Consent-Based HLW-Disposal Solutions in the USA - 15104 ........................................................................................................... 5362 Leif G Eriksson

SESSION 119 – RECORDS, KNOWLEDGE AND MEMORY (RK&M) FOR GEOLOGIC REPOSITORIES OF NUCLEAR WASTE Evidence from the Ancient World on Long-Term Preservation of Artifacts - 15442........................................................................... 5377 William Thompson, Levy Kroitoru, Hadas Kroitoru, Ilan Bruner

Andra's Memory Programme: Linguistics and Semiology - 15587 ........................................................................................................ 5384 Jean-Noël Dumont, Patrick Charton, Fabrice Boissier

Communicating with Future Generations – Major Obstacles to Overcome - 15008............................................................................ 5388 Russell Patterson, Christopher Patterson, Mindy Toothman

Andra’s Strategy and Approach for Long-Term Memory Preservation of a Deep Geological Repository - 15174 ......................... 5398 Jean-Noël Dumont, Patrick Charton, Fabrice Boissier

Long-Term Surveillance and Maintenance Records: Challenges Inherent to Managing Electronic Records - 15165 .................... 5404 Jeanie Gueretta, John Montgomery, Ruth McKinney, Cliff Anglim, Peter Cameon

Risk Considerations for WIPP Passive Institutional Controls - 15173 .................................................................................................. 5409 Steve Wagner

Influencing Future Exploratory Drilling Rates—A Potential Approach for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - 15307...................... 5414 Abraham Van Luik, Russell Patterson, Ross Kirkes

Second Phase of the OECD NEA International Initiative on the Preservation of Records, Knowledge and Memory Across Generations - 15616 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5422 Claudio Pescatore

SESSION 120 – INNOVATIONS IN HIGH-LEVEL WASTE PROCESSING AND MATERIALS Optimization of Saltcake Removal Flowsheet at SRS through Incorporation of Testing and In-Tank Waste Experience - 15263........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5429 Adam Hansen, John Tihey

Deployment of Large Tank Monosodium Titanate Strike to Increase Salt Processing at the Savannah River Site 15115 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5445 Aaron Staub, Pen Mayson

Development of Tc(IV)-Incorporated Fe Minerals to Enhance 99Tc Retention in Glass Waste Form - 15239.................................. 5451 Wooyong Um, Steven Luksic, Guohui Wang, Dongsang Kim, Michael Schweiger, Pavel Hrma, Albert Kruger

Properties of Selected Non-Pertechnetate Species Relevant to Hanford Tank Waste - 15019 ............................................................ 5458 Brian Rapko, Syandev Chatterjee, James Peterson, Amity Andresen, Nancy Washton, Eric Walter, Reid Peterson, Tatiana Levitskaia

Increased Fissionable Material Loading of Vitrified Borosilicate Glass in Support of Efficient Disposition of Nuclear Materials at Savannah River - 15299........................................................................................................................................... 5470 Glenn Christenbury

ITEAM – An International Mechanistic Approach to Modeling Glass Behavior over Geologic Time Scales - 15527..................... 5477 Joseph Ryan

SESSION 121 – PACKAGING FOR INTERIM STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND DISPOSAL Testing and Versatility of the SAVY 4000 Nuclear Material Container - 15634 .................................................................................. 5487 Paul Smith, Tristan Karns, Timothy Stone, Jon Teague, Nick Guadagnoli, Curtis Marks, Kirk Veirs, Luke Anderson, Ryan Clark

Aging of Elastomeric Seals for Storage Casks - 15080 ............................................................................................................................. 5502 Anja Koemmling, Matthias Jaunich, Dietmar Wolff

Development of a Multi-Purpose Container System for the Storage, Transport and Disposal of PWR Spent Fuel in the UK - 15466............................................................................................................................................................................................... 5514 Mark Johnson, Chi-Fung Tso, Neil Carr, Conrad Izatt, Ryoji Asano, Chris Fry, George Wright

Demonstration of Friction Stir Welding (FSW) Technology for Packaging of Used Nuclear Fuel - 15025....................................... 5529 Gary Cannell, Glenn Grant, Thad Adams

Neutron Radiation Shielding Material Polyethylene: Consequences of Gamma Irradiation - 15062 ................................................ 5538 Kerstin Von Der Ehe, Dietmar Wolff, Anja Koemmling

Development of Disposal Container Designs for Disposal of High Level Waste and Legacy Spent Fuel in the UK 15471 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5548 Chi-Fung Tso, Neil Carr, Conrad Izatt, Ryoji Asano, Chris Fry, George Wright, Chris Punshon

Results of Recent Tests of GNS Transport and Storage Casks for Nuclear Waste - 15285 ................................................................. 5561 Linus Bettermann, Roland Hueggenberg, Joerg Viermann

SESSION 122 – TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION AND SITE CLOSURE Development of a Groundwater Transport Simulation Tool for Remedial Process Optimization - 15316 ....................................... 5567 Charles Miller, Kris Ivarson, Matthew Tonkin, Steve Baker, James Hanson

Development of Ion Specific Media to Treat Sr-Contaminated Water at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 15486 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5579 Joshua Mertz, Brett Simpson, Wesley Bratton, Carly Nelson

VOLUME 8 NNSS Environmental Remediation: Large-Scale Multi-Well Aquifer Tests Used to Define Flow Systems - 15589 ........................ 5586 Greg Ruskauff, Nicole Denovio

Functional Diversity in Oxic Sediments from the Hanford 200 West Area and Implications for Remediation 15425 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5593 Brady Lee, Elsa Cordova, Joshua Ellis, Sabrina Saurey, Danielle Saunders, Hope Lee

3D Sonar for Tank Waste Quantification - 15430 .................................................................................................................................... 5602 Martin Williams, Stephen Lainson, Erich Keszler

Hexavalent Chromium Sensor for Real Time In Situ Measurement of Ground Water Contamination - 15433.............................. 5615 Kimberly Schuyler, Kenton Rod, Stephen Hall

SESSION 123 – WASTE OPTIMIZATION/MINIMIZATION AND HARMONIZATION DURING D&D An Integrated Equipment for Massive Segmentation and Packaging of Control Rod Guide Tubes - 15161 .................................... 5621 Joseph Boucau, Patrick Gobert, Sébastien Bonne

Waste Management Best Practices for Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants - 15274 ............................................................... 5630 Richard Reid, Richard McGrath

Why Use Geostatistics for Nuclear Decommissioning Projects? - 15657 ............................................................................................... 5642 Yvon Desnoyers, Didier Dubot

A Cradle to Grave Decontamination Process - 15266 .............................................................................................................................. 5649 Matt Tuck, Neil Foreman, Steven Black

Toward a Lean Analysis for Waste to Support the Decommissioning Operation - 15321 ................................................................... 5658 Florence Goutelard, Anne Courtadon, Olivier Dugne, Lionel Bec-Espitalier

Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Inactivation – Execution of Waste Management Initiatives - 15565........................................................... 5666 Kimberly Grubb, Nick Drucker

Experience with Decommissioning of the Underground Reservoirs of Object No.41 at NPP A1 Site (Bohunice, Slovakia) - 15110........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5674 Martin Listjak, Alojz Slaninka, Roman Strazovec, Ondrej Slavik, Anton Pekar

SESSION 124 – ENGAGING CITIZENS – LESSONS LEARNED FROM AROUND THE WORLD What Does the Public Really Want When Engaging with the Nuclear Industry? - 15087 .................................................................. 5684 Laurel Boucher

Talking About Radioactive Waste Management: Feedback on France's Experience and on the 2013 Public Debate on the Cigéo Project - 15202........................................................................................................................................................................ 5693 Sebastien Farin, Gérald Ouzounian, Renauld Valérie

Effective Stakeholder Communications in a Changing Budgetary Environment - 15541 ................................................................... 5701 Victor Franklin

Implementation of Arizona's Nuclear Future - 15319.............................................................................................................................. 5710 John Van De Beuken, Al Melvin

SESSION 125 – THE STAKEHOLDER’S VOICE – THE IMPACT THAT CITIZENS AND REGULATORS ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE ISSUES Quantifying Public Perceptions on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - 15395 ....................................................................................................... 5717 John Swanson, Sama Bilbao Y León, Ishoc Salaam

Creative Destruction: Dismantling Our Past to Build a Better Future - 15072 .................................................................................... 5731 Andrew Stewart

Reporting Improvements to the Annual Savannah River Site Environmental Report - 15313 .......................................................... 5739 Michael Griffith, Amy Meyer, Gail Whitney, Drew Grainger

A Paradigm Shift: An Introduction to Structured Decision Making for Sustainable Waste Management and Remediation - 15649 ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5745 Paul Black, Kelly Black, Tom Stockton

SESSION PANEL: INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF USED NUCLEAR FUEL - 126 International Strategic and Operational Management of Used Nuclear Fuel....................................................................................... 5753 Larry W. Camper, Gerard Bruno

America's Nuclear Future: Taking Action to Address Nuclear Waste .................................................................................................. 5755 Timothy A. Frazier

International Strategic and Operational Management of Nuclear Fuel ................................................................................................ 5759 Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm

Perspective on High-Level Waste Management........................................................................................................................................ 5762 William C. Ostendorff

Used Fuel Management: Mitigating the Liability..................................................................................................................................... 5767 Everett L. Redmond II

Office of Nuclear Energy Activities Supporting the Management of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5770 Andrew Griffith

International Strategic and Operational Management of Used Nuclear Fuel....................................................................................... 5778 Frederic Bailly

SESSION PARADIGM SHIFT THE KEY TO OPTIMAL, DEFENSIBLE & TRANSPARENT US DOE WM, DISPOSAL & ER DECISIONS - 127 A Paradigm Shift The Key to Optimal, Defensible & Transparent Waste Management, Disposal & Remediation Decisions - 15236........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5784 Paul Dixon, Paul Black, Laurel Boucher, Tom Stockton, Kelly Black, Jeannette Hyatt

SESSION PANEL: NEA WORKING PARTY ON DECOMMISSIONING AND DISMANTLING – KEY ACTIVITIES AND FINDINGS - 128 NEA Working Party on Decommissioning and Dismantling (WPDD) - Key Activities and Findings ............................................... 5823 Rateb Abu Eid, Claudio Pescatore

Decommissioning and Dismantling at NEA............................................................................................................................................... 5825 Claudio Pescatore

Part I: US Participation in NEA/WPDD Activities .................................................................................................................................. 5831 Rateb Abu Eid

Strategies for Radiological Characterisation in Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities ..................................................................... 5836 Arne Larsson

IAEA Programme on Decommissioning .................................................................................................................................................... 5844 Andrew Orrell

R&D Initiatives for Decontamination and Demolition............................................................................................................................. 5856 Bernard Poncet, Gerard Laurent

SESSION PANEL: US DOE D&D 2015 AND BEYOND - 129 EM Deactivation and Decommissioning Program: Status and Progress ............................................................................................... 5863 Andrew Szilagyi

Portsmouth and Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Sites......................................................................................................................... 5885 William Murphie

Preparing for Safe and Compliant Demolition at Hanfords Plutonium Finishing Plant - 15100 ....................................................... 5896 Mike Swartz

SESSION 130 – APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE D&D TECHNOLOGIES – PART 3 OF 3 Preparing for Safe and Compliant Open Air Demolition at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant - 15100..................................... 5904 Mike Swartz

Radiological Characterization and Decommissioning of Research and Power Reactors - 15602 ....................................................... 5910 Faezeh Abbasi, Rahim Nabbi, Bruno Thomauske

Investigation Robot on Cables - 15250 ....................................................................................................................................................... 5918 Dominique Chadrin, Najib Mahjoubi, Jeremy Seyssaud, Patrick Devaux, Guy Veidig, Franck Degrutere

Laser Size Reduction of Contaminated Magnox Pond Skips - 15166..................................................................................................... 5926 Ali Khan, Herbert Cruickshank, Ian Pullin, Sean Silverwood, Terry Woodcock

Advanced Dismantling Techniques Applied in an Industrial Project for the Dismantling of Highly Activated Equipment - 15446........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5942 Maxime Michel-Noel, Olivier Calixte, Samuel Blanchard, Julien Bani, Philippe Girones, Cyril Moitrier, Renaud Bourdy, Gilbert Terry

Robotic D&D: Smart Robots - 15093 ......................................................................................................................................................... 5949 Jeremy Seyssaud, Cyril Moitrier, Christian Ducros, Julien Favrichon, Yves Soulabaille, Philippe Girones

SESSION 131 – HLW SLUDGE RETRIEVAL: SAFETY AND OPTIMIZATION Gas Retention and Release from Hanford Site Sludge Waste Tanks - 15491........................................................................................ 5963 Joseph Meacham, Jordan Follett, Phillip Gauglitz, Beric Wells, Philip Schonewill

Optimization of Sludge Waste Removal Flowsheet at SRS through Incorporation of Testing and In-Tank Waste Experience - 15262........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5974 Adam Hansen, John Tihey

Analysis of Erosion/Corrosion Data for High-Level Waste Pipelines at Hanford - 15519................................................................... 5990 Dwayne McDaniel, Jennifer Arniella, Dennis Washenfelder, Jason Engeman, Brian Castillo

Investigations for Improved Tank Characterization and Cleaning - 15454 .......................................................................................... 6005 Elizabeth Hoffman, Scott Reboul, Frank Smith, William King

SESSION 133 – CEMENTITIOUS WASTE FORMS FOR LLW/ILW Simulating Field Conditions for the Curing of Saltstone - 15501 ........................................................................................................... 6012 Steven Simner, Ian Pegg

Development of a Nuclear Mixing Process for High Performance Cementation - 15064 .................................................................... 6026 Christoph Heynen, Christophe Joussot-Dubien, Thierry Ouvrier-Neyret

New Binders, New Trends, New Potentialities in Waste Cementation - 15095 ..................................................................................... 6032 Fabien Frizon, Céline Cau Dit Coumes, David Lambertin, Arnaud Poulesquen

Mock-Up Activities for the Extraction of Samples from a Saltstone Disposal Unit - 15502 ................................................................ 6045 Steven Simner, Geoff Clendenen, Malcolm Smith

X-Ray Diffraction of Slag-Based Sodium Salt Waste Forms - 15513 ..................................................................................................... 6056 Christine Langton, David Missimer

Grout Testing to Support Tank Closure at the Savannah River Site - 15370 ....................................................................................... 6079 James Rush, Gregory Arthur

Technetium and Iodine Getters to Improve Cast Stone Performance - 15420...................................................................................... 6089 Matthew Asmussen, Jim Neeway, Amanda Lawter, Wayne Lukens, Nikolla Qafoku

SESSION 134 – LLW/ILW WASTE CHARACTERIZATION – GAMMA ASSAY TOPICS Validation Testing of the Canberra Mobile Feed Roll Assay System - 15404 ....................................................................................... 6097 Atsuo Suzuki, Frazier Bronson, Gabriela Ilie, Noboru Manabe, Tomotsugu Takahashi, Hirofumi Oshima

Radiological Characterization of High Cs137 Waste Items at LANL Combining Cs-137 NDA Results and Acceptable Process Knowledge - 15592...................................................................................................................................................... 6105 Randy Lucero, Kathleen Gruetzmacher, Roland Bustos, Scott Ferran, Lucas Gallegos

Validation Testing of Canberra-Obayashi TruckScan Calculation Method - 15409 ........................................................................... 6120 Atsuo Suzuki, Frazier Bronson, Masaru Noda, Naoya Takada, Keizo Yamasaki

Collated Experience of the Use of Multi-Group Analysis (MGA) in Non-Destructive Waste Assay Systems - 15257...................... 6131 Rosemary Lester, Nicholas Clarke, Colin Wilkins, Andrey Bosko, James Yeatman, Kate Charles

Validation of General Purpose Mathematical Efficiency Modeling with ISOCS - 15579.................................................................... 6146 Henrik Jäderström, Rosemary Lester, Frazier Bronson, Ram Venkataraman, Valery Atrashkevich

Minimum Detectable Activity for Tomographic Gamma Scanning System - 15648 ............................................................................ 6158 Ram Venkataraman, Susan Smith, John Kirkpatrick, Stephen Croft

Radium-226: An Inter-Method Comparison - 15447 ............................................................................................................................... 6170 Terry Romanko

SESSION 135 – ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION PROGRESS TOWARD CLOSURE OF CONTAMINATED SITES Integrated Program for Department of Energy Environmental Management Office of Soil and Groundwater Remediation - 15426 ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6184 Kurt Gerdes, Hope Lee, Mark Freshley, Michael Truex, Amoret Bunn, Paul Dixon, Carol Eddy-Dilek, Eric Pierce, Patricia Lee, Justin Marble, Karen Skubal

The SRNL Technical Assistance Program: Transferring Lessons Learned from Two Decades of Remedial Successes to the DOE Complex - 15438...................................................................................................................................................... 6192 Carol Eddy-Dilek, Brian Looney, Miles Denham

Progress Toward Cleanup of Operable Unit 1 Groundwater at the US DOE Mound, Ohio, Site: Success of a Phased-Combined Remedy - 15310 ............................................................................................................................................................ 6200 Rebecca Cato, Gwen Hooten, Brian Looney, Brent Huntsman

Fate and Transport of Contaminants at Soils Sites - 15512..................................................................................................................... 6214 Julianne Miller, Steve Mizell, Greg McCurdy, George Nikolich, Vic Etyemezian, Jenny Chapman

Edible Oil and MicroCED Treatability Study for Enhanced Attenuation of Chlorinated Volatile Organic Compounds at P Area, Savannah River Site - 15364 ............................................................................................................................... 6229 Mark Amidon, Brian Riha

Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) Environmental Remediation Using EPA’s Model Evaluation Guidance to Move to Closure - 15588 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6241 Greg Ruskauff, Nicole Denovio

Innovative Use of Cr(VI) Plume Depictions and Pump-and-Treat Capture Analysis to Estimate Risks of Contaminant Discharge to Surface Water at Hanford Reactor Areas - 15315 ..................................................................................... 6249 Charles Miller, Kris Ivarson, Matthew Tonkin, James Hanson

SESSION 136 – INNOVATION FIELD MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION Applying Mobile Technology to Data Collection for Environmental Characterization and Remediation – Beyond the Science - 15453........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6263 Kim Arrant, John Hackett

Automation of Environmental Compliance Data Acquisition and Management - 15267 .................................................................... 6272 Ciera Joye, Karen Adams

A New Measurement Method of Tritiated Water with No Radioactive Waste - for Monitoring Post - 15050.................................. 6278 Etsuko Furuta, Noriko Iwasaki, Yuka Kato, Yusuke Tomozoe

Methods for Radiological Assessment of C-14 in Air Effluents - 15419................................................................................................. 6285 James Westmoreland, Robert Wills

US EPA Superfund Radon Vapor Intrusion Preliminary Remediation Goal (RAD-VIPRG) Electronic Calculator 15349 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6290 Stuart Walker

Model-Assisted Decision Analyses Related to a Chromium Plume at Los Alamos National Laboratory - 15449 ............................ 6298 Velimir Vesselinov, Dan O'Malley, Danny Katzman

Characterization of a Contaminated Facility and Associated Soils in Support of D & D and Subsequent Soil Remediation - 15292 ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6309 William Griffin, Candice Freeman, Christopher Bergren, Claudette Hopkins

Design of an Effective Radiological Effluent and Environmental Surveillance Program - History of SRS Environmental Monitoring Program Design - 15308 ............................................................................................................................... 6319 Teresa Eddy, Amy Meyer, Tim Jannik, Gail Whitney

SESSION 137 – ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR SAFETY MANAGEMENT Department of Energy Nuclear Safety Research and Development Program - 15413 ......................................................................... 6326 Alan Levin, Christopher Chaves

Advances in Remote Monitoring Technology for Worker Safety and Personnel Radiation Exposure Reduction 15130 .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6332 Robert Marefka

SESSION 138 – RADIOLOGICAL DISPERSION DEVICES AND OTHER NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: DETECTION, RESPONSE, DECONTAMINATION AND RECOVERY Integrating Decontamination Strategies into a Waste Estimation Support Tool for Radiological Incidents - 15284....................... 6347 Paul Lemieux, Timothy Boe, Daniel Schultheisz, Thomas Peake, Colin Hayes

Sorption of Radionuclides to Building Materials and its Removal Using Simple Salts - 15452 .......................................................... 6363 Michael Kaminski, Carol Mertz, Nadia Kivenas, Luis Ortega

Hanford Site Excavation Permit Application Automation Project - 15187 ........................................................................................... 6373 David Havens, Boyd Hathaway

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