Waste Management Symposia 2016

Session Panel: US DOE WIPP: Lessons Learned and Return to Operations Following 2014 Operational Incidents - 015

Session Co-Chairs:	Philip Breidenbach (USA) Todd Shrader (USA)
Lead Organizer:	Roger Nelson (USA)
Additional Organizer(s):	J.R. Stroble (USA)
Panel Reporter:	Roger Nelson (USA)

This panel focuses on the WIPP recovery efforts following the equipment fire and airborne radiation release incidents in February 2014, lessons learned, ongoing recovery activities, and impacts on affected DOE TRU waste complex sites. WIPP recovery officials, generator sites, and facility regulators will discuss the recovery plans, status and plans for resumption of TRU waste operations across the DOE complex.

Panel Report

Panelists with presentations:
Introduction Todd Shrader, US DOE (USA)
WIPP Culture Change Philip Breidenbach, Nuclear Waste Partnership LLC (USA)
WIPP Project Measurement Baseline Sean Dunagan, US DOE CBFO (USA)
Critical Path Activities, Accomplishments Jim Blankenhorn, Nuclear Waste Partnership - AECOM (USA)
National TRU Program Update J.R. Stroble, US DOE (USA)
Regulatory Perspective on WIPP Recovery Kathryn Roberts, New Mexico Environment Department (USA)
US EPA's Responses to the Radiological Incident at WIPP and Continued Actions Thomas Peake, US EPA (USA)
Idaho - WIPP Impact James Malmo, US DOE (USA)
Lessons Learned and Return to Operations at LANL Douglas Hintze, US DOE EM-LA (USA)

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