This innovative panel session discussed an interactive demonstration of a structured decision making approach to addressing complex waste management and remediation decisions. The goal was to demonstrate the value of a proposed paradigm shift towards a holistic, integrated approach to structuring and solving nuclear waste management, disposal and remediation decisions. The paradigm shift is from the current primary focus on the science of radioactive waste management and remediation decisions to a structured analysis approach that formally integrates stakeholder concerns, costs, value judgments and the underlying science (fate and transport modeling, risk assessment, etc.).The panel session involved elicitation of industry leaders and experts to provide a demonstration of how this approach leads to optimal, sustainable, solutions that move beyond compliance based 

Panelists include: Rob Seifert, Director, Office of Environmental Compliance, DOE EM; Paul Black, CEO, Neptune, Moderator; Christine Gelles, Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Waste Management, US DOE; Terry Spears, Deputy Manager, US DOE-EM - SR; Daphne Neel, Chief, Bureau of Land and Waste Management, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control; Jean-Michael Bosgiraud, Geologic Disposal, Technical Development, ANDRA; and additional panelists representing industry contractors, general public and or regulatory bodies.