SESSION 47

MANAGEMENT OF HIGH LEVEL AND TRU WASTE - CHARACTERIZATION AND WASTE FORM PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

Co-chairs: Sig Stockinger, Molten Metal Technology
Dieter Knecht, Lockheed Idaho Technologies Co.

1. Interim Storage of High Level Waste In Belgium--J.P. Boyazis, M. Demarche, ONDRAF (BELGIUM)

2. Nondestructive Assay and Nondestructive Examination Systems and Activities at the INEL Radioactive Waste Management Complex--Clifford J. Stanley, Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Co.

3. Update on Intrusive Characterization of Mixed Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste at Argonne-West--Carla C. Dwight, Bruce A. Jensen, C. Dwayne Bryngelson, David S. Duncan, ANL

4. How a Simple Effectiveness-Cost Analysis Expedited a Combined Decontamination and Decommissioning Action and a Remedial Action at the Old Hydrofracture Facility (OHF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory--Kenneth S. Redus, MACTEC; Clay E. Bednarz, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.

5. Conversion of Historic Waste Treatment Process for Production of an LDR and WIPP/WAC Compliant TRU Waste Form--R.P. Dunn, Ricky A. Wagner, Rocky Mountain Remediation Services, L.L.C.

6. Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste System Assessment at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant--M.R. Brown, USDOE; J.C. Lopez, Rogers & Associates Engineering; J.P. Harvill, Advanced Sciences, Inc.

7. Scenario Assessment of Autocatalytic Criticality in the Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository--W.E. Kastenberg, P.F. Peterson, J. Ahn, J. Burch, G. Casher, P. Chambre, E. Greenspan, D.R. Olander, J. Vujic , B. Bessinger, N.G.W. Cook, F.M. Doyle, B. Hilbert, University of California at Berkely

8. Analysis of Underground Autocatalytic Criticality by Vitrified HLW in Water- Saturated Geologic Repositories --Joonhong Ahn, Ehud Greenspan, Paul L. Chambre, University of California (Berkeley)