Name: MRS2017 - Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Symposium 2017
Start: 2017-10-29T08:00:00+11:00
End: 2017-11-03T18:00:00+11:00
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MRS2017 - Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Symposium 2017

from Sunday, October 29, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Friday, November 3, 2017 (6:00 PM)

Monday, October 23, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Friday, October 27, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Sunday, October 29, 2017

6:00 PM Registration & Welcome Reception
Registration & Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Pullman Hotel

Monday, October 30, 2017

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM Simone Richter (Dan to MC)
Simone Richter (Dan to MC)
9:30 AM - 9:45 AM
9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

9:45 AM Advances in conditioning of low and intermediate nuclear waste - Michael Ojovan (International Atomic Energy Agency) Miklos (Mike) Garamszeghy (Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Canada)

10:15 AM Nuclear Waste Management update in Australia - Hefin Griffiths (ANSTO)

10:45 AM Invited Lecture: Plutonium Waste Management in the UK - Michael Slater (Invited Lecturer)

11:15 AM Status of Used Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Long-term Management Programs in Canada - Miklos Garamszeghy (Nuclear Waste Management Organization)

11:45 AM The Need for Integrating the Back End of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Evaristo J. Bonano (Sandia National Laboratories)

12:15 PM Synroc Waste Treatment Plant for fission-based Molybdenum-99 Production - Gerry Triani (ANSTO)

12:45 PM Multinational Waste Repositories: A South Australian Initiative - Massey de los Reyes (South Australian Environment Protection Authoirty)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Session Chairs Claude Degeuldre & Sebastien Caes
Session Chairs Claude Degeuldre & Sebastien Caes
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Modelling the Corrosion of Spent Nuclear Fuel Inside a failed Waste Container - David Shoesmith (Western University)

3:00 PM NEW ASPECTS OF THE MECHANISM OF HYDROGEN EFFECT ON SPENT FUEL DISSOLUTION - Kastriot Spahiu (SKB, Stockholm, Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

3:15 PM Impact of lanthanide elements on the dissolution of uranium dioxide - Nicolas DACHEUX (University of Montpellier)

3:30 PM Aqueous leaching of high burnup UO2 fuel under hydrogen conditions - Anders Puranen (Studsvik Nuclear)

3:45 PM Development of solid state MAS NMR techniques for the characterization of alteration products formed during the dissolution of spent nuclear fuel. - Beng Thye Tan (University of Cambridge, Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative)
4:00 PM Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Session Chairs Kastriot Spahiu & Mike Garamszeghy
Session Chairs Kastriot Spahiu & Mike Garamszeghy
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Effect of platinoid elements on the dissolution of uranium dioxide - Nicolas DACHEUX (University of Montpellier)

5:00 PM The Corrosion of Copper Nuclear Waste Containers under Deep Geologic Disposal ConditionsF - David Shoesmith (Western University)

5:15 PM Radionuclide containing solid phases on the inner surface of a Zircaloy-4 cladding tube - Ernesto González-Robles Corrales (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

5:30 PM Comparison of calculated and measured radionuclide inventory of a Zircaloy-4 cladding tube plenum section - Michel Herm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

5:45 PM Activation energy for parabolic corrosion kinetics of Zircaloy-4 by consecutive hydrogen measurement at 30 – 80℃ - Tomofumi Sakuragi (Radioactive Waste Management Funding and Research Center)
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
8:30 AM Session Chairs Hef Griffiths & Mick Slater
Session Chairs Hef Griffiths & Mick Slater
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Interaction of nuclear safeguards and safety requirements when planning for waste disposal - Rebecca Stohr (Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office)

9:00 AM Towards a ‘3S toolbox’ for providing safety, security and safeguards at geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel - Irmgard Niemeyer (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

9:30 AM Chornobyl NPP Cooling Pond: Decommissioning - Oleksandr Novikov (SSE Chernobyl NPP)

9:45 AM Application of Nuclear Waste Management and Remediation Experience and Lessons Learned - Jeanne Poling (CH2M)

10:00 AM Management of the Radioactive Waste arising from the Decommissioning of the WWR-S Research Reactor from IFIN-HH, Magurele, Romania - Cristian Dragolici (IFIN-HH)

10:15 AM Microparticle Production as Reference Materials for Particle Analysis Methods in Safeguards - Stefan Neumeier (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)
10:30 AM Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session Chairs Ian Farnan & Josef Matyas
Session Chairs Ian Farnan & Josef Matyas
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Towards understanding the dissolution of vitrified nuclear waste in a cementitious geological disposal facility - Claire Corkhill (NucleUS Immobilisation Science Laboratory, University of Sheffield,)

11:30 AM (Scholarship application) Thermal Treatment of Magnox Sludge Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste through Vitrification - Sean Barlow (University of Sheffield)

11:45 AM Chemical Durability of Borosilicate Glass-Ceramic High-Level Waste Form in Dilute and Static Conditions - Jarrod Crum (PNNL)

12:00 PM Effects of Li, Ca, Fe, and B on NaAlSiO4 nepheline crystallization in high level waste glasses - John McCloy (Washington State University)
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM Session Chairs Claire Corkhill & Nicolas Dacheux
Session Chairs Claire Corkhill & Nicolas Dacheux
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Alkali tin silicate glass as a wasteform for the immobilisation of plutonium - Amber Mason (University of Sheffield)

2:00 PM Simplified UK Magnox waste glass alteration layer characterisation using 29Si, 17O and 25Mg NMR techniques - Rui Guo (University of Cambridge)

2:15 PM Dissolution Behavior of Lead Borate Glass under Simulated Geological Disposal Conditions - Atsushi Mukunoki (JGC Corporation)

2:30 PM A study to develop a new glass formulation for the immobilisation of HLW containing molybdenum and large amounts of sodium. - Clive Brigden (ISL, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD, UK.)
2:45 PM Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Session Chairs Stefan Neumeier & Neil Hyatt
Session Chairs Stefan Neumeier & Neil Hyatt
3:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Investigating Local Defect Structures in Nuclear Waste Form Materials - Maik Lang (University of Tennessee)

3:45 PM P-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Probe of Plutonium Incorporation and Radiation Damage in Phosphates - Ian Farnan (University of Cambridge)

4:00 PM Radiation stability study of melt processed and hot isostatically pressed multi-phase ceramic waste forms - Ming Tang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:15 PM Quantification of irradiation induced structural disorder in nuclear waste-form ceramics with µ-luminescence spectroscopy of lanthanides - Christoph Lenz (ANSTO)

4:30 PM Ion Beam Irradiation of Ceramic-glass Waste Form at ANSTO - Tao Wei (ANSTO)

4:45 PM Ion irradiation used as surrogate for neutron irradiation to understand nuclear graphite evolution during reactor operation: consequences for the long lived radionuclide’s behavior - Nelly TOULHOAT (CNRS/IN2P3/IPNL)

5:00 PM Ambient-Cured Geopolymers for Low Level Nuclear Waste Storage - Isadora Borba da Busch (UNSW Sydney)

5:15 PM Radionuclide Sorption Behaviour on Fresh and Aged Cementitious Materials: A Comprehensive Database with 25 Elements - Dirk Mallants (CSIRO)
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
8:30 AM Session Chairs Stéphanie Szenknect & Yingjie Zhang
Session Chairs Stéphanie Szenknect & Yingjie Zhang
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Hot isostatic pressing of ion exchange materials, from the Fukushima and Sellafield sites, to produce ceramic wasteforms. - Neil Hyatt (University of Sheffield)

9:00 AM Synthesis and Structure of Novel Oxide Compounds Containing RE = Y, Yb, Gd, Sm, and La and M = Zr, Ti, and Sn - Greg Lumpkin (ANSTO)

9:15 AM Synthesis and characterization of brannerite UTi2O6 - adel mesbah (ICSM Marcoule, France)

9:30 AM Synthesis and characterisation of rare Ce3NbO7 compounds for use as nuclear space batteries by neutron powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy - Sean Barlow (University of Sheffield)

9:45 AM Partitioning of Ce, as a Simulant for Pu, in a Multiphase Ceramic Nuclear Waste Form - Zhaoming Zhang (ANSTO)

10:00 AM The Fabrication and Characterisation of Novel Complex Ceramic Oxides (Ln2TiO5) For Polyphase Ceramic Waste-Forms. - Robert Aughterson (ANSTO)
10:15 AM Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM Session Chairs Massey De Los Reyes & Eugenia Kuo
Session Chairs Massey De Los Reyes & Eugenia Kuo
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM Solubility of the rhabdophane, LnPO4.0.667 H2O (Ln = La to Dy): implications for the long-term stability of monazite matrices. - Stéphanie Szenknect (ICSM)

11:15 AM Preparation of Ln1-2xCaxThxPO4.nH2O rhabdophane-type as low precursors to monazite-Cheralite ceramics - adel mesbah (Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule, UMR 5257 CEA/CNRS/UM/ENSCM, Site de Marcoule, BP 17171, 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze cedex, France)

11:30 AM Structural incorporation of Cm3+ and Pu3+ in phosphate ceramics with monazite structure. - Stefan Neumeier (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Energy and Climate Research - IEK-6: Nuclear Waste Management and Reactor Safety, 52425 Jülich, Germany)

11:45 AM Thorium incorporation in phosphates matrices: the case of xenotime - adel mesbah (ICSM Marcoule, France)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Session Chairs Zhaoming Zhang & Maik Lang
Session Chairs Zhaoming Zhang & Maik Lang
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM U-rich ceramics for Spent Fuel or Acidic 99Mo Production ILW - Eric R Vance (ANSTO)

1:45 PM Current advances on titanate-based glass-ceramics for actinide immobilization - Yingjie Zhang (ANSTO)

2:00 PM The development of zirconolite glass-ceramics for the immobilisation of Pu-residues in the UK. - Stephanie Thornber (University of Sheffield)

2:15 PM A New Method for Production of Glass-Y2Ti2O7 Pyrochlore - Linggen Kong (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)

2:30 PM Atomistic simulation of interfaces in glass/crystal composites for nuclear waste forms - Paul C. M. Fossati (Imperial College London)
2:45 PM Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Session Chairs Lou Vance & Stephanie Thornber
Session Chairs Lou Vance & Stephanie Thornber
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Efficient remediation of radiodine with silver-functionalized silica aerogel - Josef Matyas (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

3:45 PM Sodalite waste forms for iodine - John McCloy (Washington State University)

4:00 PM Radioactive Iodine-129 Capture in Mixed Cation Sodalites: ab initio modelling - EUGENIA KUO (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation)

4:15 PM New aspects of U(V) chemistry in oxo-materials: from ambient to extreme conditions - Evgeny Alekseev (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

4:45 PM Unique capabilities and methods for analysing nuclear waste form materials using ANSTO’s landmark infrastructure - Gabriel Murphy (University of Sydney)

5:00 PM New route for synthesis of Synroc-like ceramic using non-selective sorbent LHT-9 - Bella Zubekhina (researcher, V.G. Khlopin Radium Institute (KRI), St-Petersburg, Russia)
6:15 PM

6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2017
8:30 AM Session Chairs Gordon Thorogood & David Shoesmith
Session Chairs Gordon Thorogood & David Shoesmith
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Advanced Materials and Processes for Application to the Back-end of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle - Vittorio Luca (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica)

9:00 AM Emulsions as a powerful tool to design silica monoliths able to selectively uptake radioactive caesium - Jeremy Causse (Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule (ICSM) - UMR5257 - CEA Marcoule)

9:15 AM Highly porous and stable metal–organic frameworks for uranium extraction - Michael Carboni (CEA)

9:30 AM Pyrolysis and Plasma applied to Nuclear ion Exchange Resins Treatment - hugo luis bianchi (Gerencia Química, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, CAC, Av. Gral. Paz 1499 (1650) Buenos Aires, Argentina / ECyT, UNSAM, Martín de Irigoyen 3100 (1650) San Martín, Argentina)

9:45 AM Functionalised Titania and Zirconia Materials for Selective Actinide and Lanthanide Separations - Jessica Veliscek Carolan (ANSTO)

10:00 AM Inert matrix fuel deployment for reducing the plutonium stockpile in reactors - Claude Degueldre (Engineering Department, Lancaster University, LA1 4YW, UK)
10:30 AM Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Session Chairs Vittorio Luca & Gerry Triani
Session Chairs Vittorio Luca & Gerry Triani
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Apparent Diffusion Coefficients Consistent with Sorption Derived Based on Changes in Depth Profiles of Radiocaesium in Soil Contaminated by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Future Prediction of Depth Profile - Haruo Sato (Okayama University)

11:15 AM Investigation of C-14 in the CRUD collected on the coolant filter for safety disposal of radioactive waste containing C-14 (I)- C-14 release behavior and thermal decomposition characteristics of crud particles collected from the coolant filter of commercial PWR - - Kenichiro Kino (Nucler Development Corporation)

11:30 AM Investigation of C-14 in the CRUD collected on the coolant filter for safety disposal of radioactive waste containing C-14 (II) –Chemical alternation of ion exchange resin under simulated condition in primary coolant of PWR – - Kotaro Nakata (CRIEPI)

11:45 AM Digital autoradiography on C-14 labelled PMMA impregnated rock samples using the Beaver$^{TM}$ - Mikko Voutilainen (Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Session Chairs Michael Ojovan & Irmgard Niemeyer
Session Chairs Michael Ojovan & Irmgard Niemeyer
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Effect of thiosulfate on the SCC behavior of carbon steel welds exposed to concrete pore water under anoxic conditions - Sebastien CAES (SCK-CEN)

2:00 PM Characterisation of the UK cement backfill material pre- and post- groundwater leaching experiments - Rita Vasconcelos (University of Sheffield)

2:15 PM Porosity distribution in a heterogeneous clay-rich fault core - Ville Nenonen (University of Helsinki)

2:30 PM Behaviour of sand-bentonite buffer material of deep geological repository under high confining pressure - Janaka J. Kumara (Department of Civil Engineering, Meijo University, Japan)
2:45 PM Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM Session Chairs Evaristo Bonano & Jessica Veliscek Carolan
Session Chairs Evaristo Bonano & Jessica Veliscek Carolan
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

3:15 PM Effect of Carbonate on Lanthanides Migration Behavior in Compacted Bentonite - Kazuya Idemitsu (Kyushu university)

3:30 PM Identification of chemical form of stable carbon released from type 304 and 316 stainless-steel powders in alkaline solution and in acidic solution under low-oxygen condition - Ryo Nakabayashi (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)

3:45 PM Best Practice in the Management of Site Investigations for Geological Disposal Facilities - Paul Degnan (Catalystra)
4:00 PM Session Chairs Evaristo Bonano & Jessica Veliscek Carolan
Session Chairs Evaristo Bonano & Jessica Veliscek Carolan
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Comparison of thermal expansion of Tc and Re salts. - Gordon Thorogood (ANSTO)

4:15 PM Alkali technetium oxides and their relation to Tc loading in nuclear waste glasses - John McCloy (Washington State University)

4:30 PM Tc reduction by bacteria from soda lake - Konstantin German (A.N.Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences)

4:45 PM Unusual redox neighborhood in technetium compounds - Konstantin German (A.N.Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences)
7:00 PM Gala Dinner
Gala Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, November 3, 2017

10:00 AM

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM