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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
Decommissioning Environmental Sciences and Remote Technology 2024
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by DESD
Wednesday, November 20, 2024|1:00–2:45PM EST|Merritt 1
Session Chair:
Lawrence E. Boing (ANL)
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Joseph E. Carignan
The "Take A Look Back" panel session will focus on the progress in D&D over the last 50 years of the industry to back when first formal D&D projects (early to mid-1970s Piqua Rx D&D, Elk River Reactor D&D, Yankee Rowe NPP D&D and other DOE projects, among others, as examples) were undertaken. Seasoned panelists and experts will address changes to the D&D projects' typical course and how all the various aspects have changed, based on project experiences and their experiences. Panelists -- many of whom worked through that entire life cycle of 1975-2024 in various technical areas -- will address topics such as waste management, project management and project approaches, technologies selection and availability, stakeholder engagement and its evolution and facility/site characterization and release.
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