Nuclear Wastes Management - Today's Problem But Tomorrow's Standard
R.G. Hart (AECL)
The Canadian Nuclear Fuel Haste Management Program
T.E. Rummery, E.L.J. Rosinger (AECL)
The IAEA's Activities in Radioactive Waste Management
K. Barabas (IAEA)
International Co-operation in Radioactive Waste Management: The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Programme
P.D. Johnston, (OECD-NEA)
European Community Programmes on High Level Waste
S. Orlowski, R.A. Simon (CEC-Brussels)
The U.S. Strategy for the Development and Construction of High-Level Radioactive Waste Repositories
W.W. Ballard, C.R. Cooley, D.G. Boyer (USDoE)
Swedish Radioactive Waste Management
T. Papp (SKBF/KBS, Stockholm)
1A - Engineered Barriers
The Canadian Engineered Barriers Program
K. Nuttall, D.J. Cameron, F.P. Sargent (AECL)
Assessing Corrosion of Nuclear Fuel Waste Containers
P. McKay, K. Nuttall, D.B. Mitton (AECL)
Design of Packed Particulate Supported Containment for Irradiated Fuel Immobilization
M. Mikasinovic, R.Hoy (OH)
Evaluation of the Design of Particulate-Packed, Thin-Wall Container for Disposal of Irradiated Fuel Bundles
B. Teper (OH)
The Effect of Air Contamination in the Argon Shielding Gas on the Mechanical Properties of Titanium Gas-Tungsten-Arc Welds
P.Y.Y. Maak (OH)
Development of High-Integrity Container for Intermediate-Depth Burial of Special Waste
R.L. Chapman, A.T. Ayers (EG&G), R.T. Haelsig (Nuclear Packaging Inc., Tacoma)
Laboratory Study of Physical Properties of Clay Buffers for a Nuclear Fuel Waste Vault
H.S. Radhakrishna, H.T. Chan (OH)
Laboratory Study of Clay-Type Grouting Materials
H.T. Chan (OH)
A Review of Cement Based Grouts for Both Repository Sealing and the Construction of the Underground Research Laboratory
R.D. Hooton, P.K. Mukherjee (OH)
1B - Geoscience For Fuel Waste Disposal - I
Applied Geoscience Research in the Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Management Program
S.H. Whitaker (AECL)
The Identification and Characterization of Major Structural Discontinuities Within the Eye-Dashwa Lakes Granite, Atikokan, Ontario
P.A. Brown, N.A.C.Rey (AECL)
Pore Structure Parameters of Igneous Crystalline Rocks - Their Significance for Potential Radionuclide Migration and Storage
T.J. Katsube (GSC)
Permeability Assessment of the Near-Excavation Zone
A.T. Jakubick, V. deKorompay (OH)
Influence of Heat Flow on Drift Closure During Climax Granite Spent Fuel Test: Measurements & Calculations
T.R. Butkovich, J.L. Yow, D.N. Montan (LLNL)
In-Situ Permeability and Heater Tests on HLW Disposal Technology Developments in Japan
N. Tsunoda (PNC), K. Maekawa, T. Kashiwagi (Mitsibushi)
Design and Construction of Exploratory and Ventilation Shafts for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
P.K. Frobenius, C.L. Wu (Bechtel)
Considerations in the Design of High-Level Waste Repositories in Crystalline Rocks
J.A. Allison, L.M. Lake (Mott, Hay & Anderson, UK)
Decision Analysis for Geologic Repository Development and Licensing
L.A. White, D.L. Pentz, W.S. Dershowitz, W.J. Roberds (Golder Assoc, USA)
The Use of Uranium-Series Disequilibrium to Determine Radionuclide Migration on Geologic Timescales
M. Gascoyne (AECL)
1C - Low Level & Reactor Wastes - I
The Characterization of Canada's Low Level Radioactive Wastes
A. Buchnea, A.D. Ciccone, B. Green (MacLaren, Toronto)
Development of Pyrohydrolysis for Waste Volume Reduction
C.D. Desjardins, R.S. Salter (NB Research & Productivity Council), L.P. Buckley, K.A. Burrill (AECL)
The Influence of Leachant Composition on the Release of Caesium-137 from Ion-Exchange Wastes Immobilised in Thermosetting Polymer Binders
A.P. Haighton (CEGB)
Comparing Cement, Polyester and Bitumen Immobilization for Liquid and Solid Reactor Wastes
L.P. Buckley (AECL)
Leaching Behaviour of Metal Hydrides Containing Immobilized Tritium
J.M. Miller (AECL)
Leach Behaviour and Mechanical Integrity Studies of Irradiated Epicor-II Waste Products
R.E. Barletta, K.J. Swyler, S.F. Chan, R.E. Davis (BNL)
Radiolytic Effects on Ion Exchangers During the Storage of Radioactive Wastes
K.K.S. Pillay (LANL), G.L. Palau (Penn State)
Radioactive Liquid Filter Wastes at Darlington G.S.
A.D. Mackie, K.K. Lo (OH)
1D - Public Attitudes, Regulatory
Social Aspects of Siting Geologic Research Areas for Nuclear Fuel Waste Management - The Canadian Experience
E.R. Frech (AECL)
Developing Social Impact Assessment Methodologies for Long-Term Disposal of Irradiated Fuel
B.G. Rogers, M.A. Stevenson (OH)
The Ontario Public's Opinion of Nuclear Fuel Waste Management
M.A. Greber, M. Barrados (AECL)
The AECB Approach to Concept Assessment
P.J. Conlon, K.P. Wagstaff (AECB)
A Practical Application of Criteria for the Clean-Up of Contaminated Communities
R.S. Eaton (AECB)
Plenary Session - II
Low- and Intermediate-Level Radioactive Waste Management in Canada
D.H. Charlesworth (AECL), T.J. Carter (OH)
The Low-Level Waste Management Program in the United States
G.B. Levin (EG&G)
The Japanese Approach to the Management of Radioactive Wastes
T. Ishihara (Radioactive Waste Management Centre, Tokyo)
United States Department of Energy Surplus Facilities Management Program
J.F. Nemec (UNC Nuclear Industries), J.D. White (USDoE)
The Present Status and Future Plans for the Regulation of Radioactive Wastes in Canada
W.D. Smythe (AECB)
Bioethical Issues in Radioactive Waste Management
M.N. Maxey (U of Texas)
Long Term Waste Problems from Electricity Production
B.L. Cohen (U of Pittsburgh)
2A: Performance Assessment And Modelling For Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal Facilities
Reference Environment Modelling for Generic Environmental Assessment of the Canadian Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal Concept (Pre- Closure Phase)
J.H. Gee (OH)
A Stochastic Model for the Dissolution of Irradiated U02 Fuel
B.W. Goodwin, R.J. Lemire, L.H. Johnson (AECL)
An Approximate Analytical Procedure for Solving a Radionuclide Transport Equation
G.L. Moltyaner (AECL)
A Model on the Nuclide Migration in the Unsaturated Zone
H. Tasaka, T. Asano, Y. Akimoto (Mitsubishi)
The Role of Thermomechanical Modeling in the Selection of a Salt Repository Site in the U.S.A.
H.Y. Tammemagi, M.C. Loken, R.A. Wagner (RE/SPEC)
Long Term Stability Analysis - The Battelle Geologic Simulation Model
M.G. Foley, G.M. Petrie (PNL, USA)
A Comparative Safety Analysis of the Disposal of Spent Fuel and the Other LWR Wastes in Hard Bedrock
E.K. Peltonen, S.J. V. Vuori (TRCF,Helsinki)
Simulations of Long Tern Health Risk from Shallow Land Burial of Low Level Radioactive Waste
C.A. Little, D.E. Fields (ORNL)
2B - Mine/Mill Waste Management
Overview of Uranium Tailings Management Practice
D.B. Chambers, R.A. Knapp, B.G. Ibbotson, L.M. Lowe (Senes)
Uranium Tailings in Canada – Regulation and Management
R.S. Boulden, K. Bragg (AECB)
Uranium Tailings Design and Management Practices at Elliott Lake, Ontario
J.B. Davis (Golder Assoc), K.B. Culver (Rio Algom), P.F. Pullen
Uranium Mine Waste Management in Saskatchewan
D.W. Larson, B.E. Robertson, R.J. Woods (Woods Robertson Assoc)
Uranium Processing: What Wastes?
D. Moffett, A.W. Ashbrook, J.P. Jarrell (ENL)
Some Aspects of Barium-Radium Coprecipitation for Radium Removal from Uranium Mining Wastewaters
D.W. Averill, J.W. Schmidt (Environment Canada)
Leaching of Radium-226 from Barium-Radium Sulphate Sludges
P.M. Huck, W.B. Anderson (U of Alberta)
Uranium Mine/Mill Decommissioning in Saskatchewan
R.R. Sentis, R.G. Barsi, C.L. Potter, E.P. Wagner (Sask Dept of Envir)
The Reclamation and Close-Out of the Beaverlodge Operations of Eldorado Nuclear Limited
A.W. Ashbrook, R.J. Phillips, M.P. Filion (ENL)
2C - Waste Product Research And Processing
Canadian Research on High-Level Nuclear-Waste Products and Processes
A.G. Wikjord, D.W. Shoesmith, B.W. Goodwin, F.P. Sargent (AECL)
Liquid Immiscibility in Multicomponent Borosilicate Glasses
P. Taylor, A.B. Campbell, D.G. Owen (AECL)
The Determination of Iodine-129 in Fuel Leaching Solutions by Neutron Activation Analysis
K.I. Burns, C.J. Moore, E.M. Ashbourne (AECL)
Mechanism of Oxidative Dissolution of UO2, Under Waste Disposal Vault Conditions
S. Sunder, D.W. Shoesmith, M.G. Bailey, G.W. Wallace (AECL)
Gas-Phase Abatement of Radioiodine
A.C. Vikis, D.F. Torgerson, L.P. Buckley (AECL)
Solution Chemistry of Technetium and Iodine
J. Paquette, S.J. Lister, W.E. Lawrence (AECL)
Release of Cs-134, Cs-137 and I-129 from the Fuel/Sheath Gap of CANDU Irradiated Fuel
K.I. Burns, C.J. Moore, D.G. Boase (AECL)
Management Modes for the Radionuclides Tritium, Carbon-14 and Krypton-85 Arising from Reprocessing
H. Bruecher (ICT-Juelich, Germany)
Characterization of the Off-Gas Released to the Dissolver Off-Gas System in the Eurex Pilot Plant
G.G. Alonzo, F.F. Castellani, G.G. Curzio, A.F. Gentilli, L.F. Pieve (Eurex-ENEA, Saluggia)
2D - Interim Storage, Transport And Handling Of Irradiated Fuel
Long Term Storage Options for Ontario Hydro's Irradiated Fuel
B.P. Dalziel, S.J. Naqvi, P.K.M. Rao (OH)
MODREX - An Answer to the Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Dilemma
B.J. Baxter, F.D. Postula (General Atomics), H.B. Brooks (TVA)
Preliminary Economic and Technical Evaluation of Concrete Casks for Irradiated Fuel Management
J. Freire-Canosa (OH)
The Characterization of Irradiated CANDU Fuel Bundles Stored in Concrete Canisters at WNRE
K.M. Wasywich, J.D. Chen, K.I. Burns, D.G. Boase (AECL)
Tritium Permeation Through the Cast Alloy Walls of a Spent Fuel Dry Cask
D. Stover, H.P.Buchkremer, H.G. Esser, U. Zink (KFA-IRE, Germany)
A Transient Multi-Dimensional Approach to Analyse the Thermal Performance of Pre- Disposal Nuclear Waste Management Facilities
A.M.C. Chan, A.K. Ahluwalia, S. Banerjee (MacU)
A Program for the Transportation of Irradiated CANDU Fuel
P.K.M. Rao, M.E. gavin, K.E. Nash (OH)
FFTF Radioactive Solid Waste Handling and Transport
J.D. Thomson (Westinghouse)
3A - Low Level & Reactor Wastes - II
Hydrologic and Geologic Aspects of Low Level Radioactive Waste Site Management
N.H. Cutshall, N.D. Vaughan, C.S. Haase, C.R. Olsen, D.D. Huff (ORNL)
Characterization and Evaluation of the Geologic and Hydrogeologic Conditions at the BNPD Radioactive Waste Operations Site 2
R.J. Heystee, C.F. Lee, T.J. Carter (OH)
Groundwater Transport of Reactive Contaminants Near the CRNL Waste Management Areas; Some Realities
R.W.D. Killey (AECL)
Mobility of Cs-137 in the Ottawa River Near the CRNL Waste Management Areas
R.J. Cornett, E.L. Cooper, G. Lahaie (AECL)
Preliminary Analysis of Intrusion into a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Emplacement at a Shallow Depth
L. Cabeza, C. Burch, A. Buchnea (MacLaren), J. Mernagh (OH)
The Development of an Assessment Methodology for the Near Surface Disposal of Radioactive Waste
L. Cabeza, A. Buchnea, E.J. Chart (MacLaren), D.B. Chambers, L.M. Lowe (Senes)
Temporary Storage of Low-Level Waste: Facility Design Experience
R.J. Tosetti, F.Feizollahi, H.E. Howell (Bechtel, San Francisco)
An Approach to the Exemption of Materials from Regulation as Radioactive Wastes
R.M. Chatterjee, J.R. Coady, K.P. Wagstaff (AECB)
Carbon-14 in Ion Exchange Resins from Finnish Nuclear Power Plants
M. Snellman (Technical Research Centre of Finland), L. Salonen (Inst of Rad Protection, Finland)
An Overview of the Ontario Hydro Carbon-14 Control Program
R.R. Stasko, G.A. Vivian (OH)
3B - Environmental, Health & Safety
Canadian Environmental Research for Nuclear Waste Management
S.L. Iverson (AECL)
Radioecology and Waste Management
A. Grauby (CEA)
A Model to Calculate Doses from Iodine-129 on a Local, Regional and Global Scale from the Proposed Canadian High Level Waste Vault
J.R. Johnson, J.G. van Heteren, D.M. Wuschke (AECL)
Ecological Vectors of Radionuclide Transport at a Solid Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility in Southeastern Idaho
W.J. Arthur, O.D. Markham (USDoE)
A Contamination Assessment Study for Gentilly Waste Storage Facilities
C. Marche (EPM), C. Schneeberger (Geos), S. Trussart, M. Lavallee (HQ)
Analysis of Atmospheric Pathways of Exposure at Jackpile Mine
M.H. Momeni, C.E. Dungey, C.J. Roberts (ANL)
A Subsurface Migration Model for Use in Radiological Impact Assessment of Radioactive Waste Disposal
J.R. Mernagh, R.N. Sangster (OH)
In-Plant Radioactive Materials Model to Calculate Radioactive Emissions from CANDU PHWR Plants During Normal Operation
D. Barber, J.Van Berlo (AECL)
3C - Geoscience For Fuel Waste Disposal - II
Discussion of the AECB's Geological Criteria and Guidelines Germane to the Deep Underground Disposal of Radioactive Waste
J.L. Wallach (AECB)
The Nature of Fracture Fillings in the Eye-Dashwa Lakes Pluton, Atikokan, Ontario, and Their Significance to Hydrogeological and Geochemical Aspects of Nuclear Fuel Waste Management
D.C. Kamineni, D. Stone (GSC), T.T. Vandergraaf (AECL)
Geological, Geophysical & Hydrogeological Investigations at the Site of the Planned Underground Research Laboratory
N.M. Soonawala, C.C. Davison, A. Brown (AECL)
Fracture Hydrology and Radionuclide Transport
P.J. Bourke, G.V. Evans (AERE, Harwell)
Regional and Room-Scale Hydrological Simulations of the Atikokan Site (Research Area 4)
D.W. LaFleur, M. Reeves (INTERA, Calgary)
A Theoretical Analysis of Mass Transport in Fractured Media
F.W. Schwartz (UA), L. Smith (UBC), A.S. Crowe (UA)
Comparison of Theoretical and Experimental Models of Heat Transport from A Nuclear Waste Repository
A.T. Conlisk, R.N. Christensen, J. Roy (Ohio State U)
Luncheon Speaker The Technical Advisory Committee - A Review Mechanism
L.W. Shemilt (MacU)
