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This timely and provocative panel will focus on and address both the perilous status of the US's only candidate SNF/HLW repository at the YuccaMountain site and potential options for meeting the nation's continually increasing need for SNF and HLW disposal volume. This volume is projected to exceed the current statutory capacity of the YuccaMountain repository in 2010. The panel will be divided into four (4) topic areas with ample time for audience participation on each topic. Topics are: 1) Current status of the repository program including activities in Congress, the Administration, DOE-RW and NRC, 2) Implications for utilities and DOE defense waste sites of withdrawing the Yucca Mountain license application or de-funding the program, 3) Alternatives to a repository, including federal storage and recycling, and 4) International programs which offer lessons learned and alternative approaches. Panelists: Enrique Biurrun, Head of the International Cooperation Department, DBE TECHNOLOGY GmbH (Germany); Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm, Vice Chair, Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste; Edward Davis, Pegasus Group, LLC; George Dials, Executive VP, B&W Technical Services Group; Darrell Lacy, Nye County, NV; Andrew Orrell, Sandia National Laboratories Director of Nuclear Energy Programs; Jean-Michel Bosgiraud, ANDRA (France); Frank Parker, Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University; Mark Peters, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Argonne National Laboratory; John Parkyn, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Private Fuel Storage, LLC and Rod McCullum, NEI.
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