This Thursday afternoon featured panel will focus on the remediation, decommissioning and related waste management aspects following a major nuclear accident or cleanup of an extreme contamination scenario. The panel will also address the crises communication which took place during these events as well as communication with the public in general during nuclear accidents or contamination events. The panel will address the following sites: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) (USA), Chernobyl NPP (Ukraine), Fukushima NPP (Japan), Windscale Pile I (United Kingdom) and the Rocky Flats Infinity Rooms (USA) remediation. Several of the panelists also took part in the "IAEA-International Experts Meeting on Decommissioning and Remediation after an Accident" in January, 2013.

Panelists include: Martin T. Cross, PhD, Principal Consultant, Nuvia Ltd. (United Kingdom); Jack Devine, Chief Decommissioning Officer, Sellafield Ltd. (United Kingdom); Jim Mcllvaine, Chesapeake Nuclear Services (USA - Chernobyl NPP); Francis X. Cameron, Principal Consultant, Zero Gravity Group (USA);  Robert Kury, Vice President Nuclear Liabilities D&D, Program Management, CH2MHill(USA); and Kazuhiro Suzuki, Executive Director, International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (Japan).