Spent Fuel Management Seminar

January 24-26, 2023

Overview

The Spent Fuel Seminar provides a forum for the exchange of the newest technical information related to all aspects of spent fuel management. Special sessions are arranged on safeguards, international and domestic management, packaging and transportation, information surety, inspections, containment and surveillance, measurement technology, nuclear processing and physical protection. 

Program: 

The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management presents the 36th Spent Fuel Management Seminar In Partnership with the U.S. Nuclear Industry Council January 24 - 26, 2023

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
0730 - 0830 Registration

0800 - 0805 Spent Fuel XXXVI Opening: Melanie Snyder, Co-Chair of the INMM Spent Fuel
Management Seminar

0805 - 0810 Welcoming Remarks: Jeff England, Chair, INMM Packaging, Transportation, and Disposition Technical Division

0810 - 0815 Welcoming Remarks: Todd Abrajano, President and CEO, U.S. Nuclear Industry Council

0815 - 0845 FEATURED SPEAKER: Dr. Kimberly Petry, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Spent Fuel & Waste Disposition, U.S. Department of Energy

0845 - 0930 FEATURED SPEAKER: Philipp Senn, Nagra, Division Head Public Affairs, Switzerland (remote presentation)

0930 - 1000 Break

1000 - 1045 Progress, Insights, and Updates on the Onkalo® Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository
Project, Mika Pohjonen, Managing Director, Posiva Solutions Oy, Finland (remote presentation)

1045 - 1130 FEATURED SPEAKER: John Lubinski, Director, Office of Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

1130 - 1300 Lunch

1300 - 1400 PANEL: Spent Fuel Political Landscape: Chair, Lake H. Barrett, Retired, U.S. DOE
● Mike McBride, Partner, Van Ness Feldman LLP
● Katrina McMurrian, Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition
● John Kotek, Senior Vice President of Policy Development and Public Affairs, Nuclear Energy Institute

1400 - 1430 Overview of Spent Fuel Management Programs: Daniel Ogg, Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

1430 - 1500 Break

1500 - 1530 Electric Power Research Institute Extended Storage Collaboration Program update: Hatice Akkurt, Technical Executive, Used Fuel and High-Level Waste, EPRI

1530 - 1600 Perspectives from IAEA Safeguards Inspections of Spent Fuel Facilities: Michelle Romano, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

1700 - 1900 36th Spent Fuel Management Seminar Reception

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

0800 - 0805 Opening Remarks: Bradley Loftin, Co-Chair of the INMM Spent Fuel Management Seminar

0805 - 0915 PANEL: Spent Fuel Storage Regulatory Challenges: Chair, Mark Richter, PhD, Technical Advisor, NEI  Short-term tornado operations:Kari Osborne, Lead Licensing Engineer, Southern Nuclear, and Matthew Learn, Storage & Transportation Safety Inspector, NRC Spent fuel performance margins: Regulatory Challenges: Dr. Stefan Anton, Senior Vice-President of Engineering and Licensing, Holtec International Implementation of NRC’s Risk Tool: Timothy McCartin, Senior Level Advisor for Performance Assessment, Division of Spent Fuel Management, NRC

0915 - 1015 U.S. DOE’s Conceptual Interim Storage Facility Designs: Joe Carter, U.S. DOE

1015 - 1045 Break

1045 - 1130 PANEL: Is this the Year of the Repository?: Chair, Katrina McMurrian, Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition  

• Emily Stein, PhD, Senior Advisor, DOE
• Steve Nesbit, President, LMNT Consulting

1130 - 1200 Spent Fuel: the Gordian Knot of Nuclear Power: Carlyn Greene, Senior VicePresident, Spent Fuel, UxC

1200 - 1330 Lunch

1330 - 1415 Progress on a Deep Geological Repository in Canada: Dakota Kochie, Director
of Government and External Relations, Nuclear Waste Management
Organization, Canada

1415 - 1500 Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Community Preparedness and Planning Pilot
Framework, Miriam Holladay Juckett, Senior Program Manager, Southwest
Research Institute

1500 - 1530 Break

1530 - 1600 Atlas and Fortis Rail Car Update/Testing Schedule: Patrick Schwab, PhD, U.S.
DOE Office of Nuclear Energy

1600 - 1645 The Waste Aspects of Advanced Reactors: Paul Dickman, Argonne National
Laboratory, Member, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Merits and
Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste
Aspects of Advanced Reactors

1700 Daily Adjourn

Thursday, January 26, 2023

0800 - 0900 PANEL: Spent Fuel Management Activities: Operator and Manufacturer Perspectives, Chair, Bradley Loftin, Nuclear Nonproliferation Project Specialist, Oak Ridge National Lab

● Michael McMahon, VP, Transportation & Strategic Projects, NAC International
● Michael Beal, Senior Alliance Director and Senior Director of Client
Relationships, Holtec International
● Michael Valenzano, Senior Project Manager, Orano TN Americas

0900 – 0930 Punctuation Matters -- Observations on Nuclear Host Communities, the Decommissioning Experience and Next Steps: Jim Hamilton, Executive Director, The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative

0930 - 1000 Break

1000 - 1030 Swedish Spent Fuel Management Activities: Eva Andersson, Acting Manager of
the Department of Research and Development, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering
AB, SKB (remote presentation)

1030 – 1130 PANEL: The Student to Professional Pipeline in Nuclear: Chair, Melanie Snyder,
Program Manager, Western Interstate Energy Board - sponsored by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
● Christopher Gamez, Tristan Murphy, and James Nick Smith - Texas A&M students

1130 - 1135 Closing Remarks and Seminar Adjourn: Melanie Snyder and Bradley Loftin, CoChairs, INMM Spent Fuel Management Seminar

1105 Seminar Adjourn