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This panel featured a discussion of the long-term management of radioactive waste from an international perspective, looking at how we deal with both legacy and new build wastes. High-level experts from the from around the world will give us their views on the challenges and potential solutions to issues on decommissioning, clean-up, and disposal for all waste types. Of particular interest will be how multi-national collaboration is assisting national programmes for dealing with waste. We will hear short presentations from each panelist, which will then be followed by a moderated Q&A session with audience participation encouraged. Panelists: Dr. Wang Ju, VP, Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, Head, HLW Disposal Program, Chinese National Nuclear Corporation; Christine Gelles, Director, Office of Disposal Operations, US DOE EM; Mike Johnson, Executive Director, Waste & Effluent Disposition, Sellafield, Ltd.; Prof. Volodymyr Tokarevsky, Former Director, State Special Company Technocentre, Chornobyl, Ukraine; Carl Reinhold Bråkenhielm,Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste and Dr. Dan Metlay, Senior Professional Staff, US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
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