30th Spent Fuel Management Seminar
in Partnership with the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council

January 12 - 14, 2015
Marriott Gateway Hotel Crystal City
Arlington, Virginia  USA

Monday, January 12, 2015

Spent Fuel 30th Davis Opening
Jeff England, Spent Fuel Seminar Chair, Savannah River National Laboratory

Welcoming Remarks - Eric Knox, Chairman Emeritus, U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council

Welcoming Remarks - Larry Satkowiak, INMM President, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Keynote, Hon. Peter Lyons, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Keynote, Michael Weber, Deputy Director of Operations

Yucca Licensing Project, Continued Storage & Repository Options
Chair, Eric Knox

• Sustainable Fuel Cycle Task Force, Mr Edward Davis, Director
• State Involvement in Spent Fuel Management, Lisa R. Janairo, Program Director, The Council of State Governments, Midwestern Office 
• Spent Fuel Interim Storage and GTCC Disposal, Scott Kirk, VP of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Waste Control Services 

U.S. Department of Energy Used Fuel Campaigns
Chair, Bill Boyle, DOE NE, NE-53, Used Fuel Disposition

• Used Fuel Disposition Program , Ken Sorenson, SNL 
• NFST Program, Mark Nutt, NFST National Technical Director, ANL 

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Opening Remarks, Jeff England, SRNL
 
NRC Perspective on Spent Fuel, Mark Lombard, Director of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, NRC 

Crystal Ball View on Global Decommissioning
Chair, David Blee, U.S. NIC

• Larry Camper, US NRC 
• Robert Quinn, Energy Solutions 
• David Jones, AREVA 
• Kenji Tateiwa, TEPCO 

Ken Picha, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. DOE Environmental Management (EM), EM-20

International Spent Fuel Topics
Chair, Norman Kent

• The Swedish Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Programme, Anders Sjöland, SKB 
• European Commission's Perspective on Spent Fuel Management, Christos Koutsoyannopoulos, EC
• Spent Fuel Management in Germany, Holger Völzke, BAM 
• Spent Fuel Management in Japan, Masumi Wataru, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry 

Regulatory Perspectives
Chair, Michele Sampson

• Spent Fuel Lessons Learned, Sandra Birk, INL 
• DOE Spent Fuel Program Updates, Edgard.Espinosa, DOE EM 
• Extended Storage and Beyond, Alex Velaquez-Lozado, NRC 
• German Pebble Bed Project, Edgard.Espinosa, DOE EM 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Opening Remarks, Jeff England, SRNL
   
International Spent Fuel Issues, Henri-Jacques Neau, WNTI

Spent Fuel Transportation Campaigns
Chair, Melissa Bates, US DOE

• Spanish Spent Fuel Transport, David Garrido, ENSA 
• Savannah River Site Fuel Transport, Receipt, & Disposition, Dave Rose, SRNS 
• The Future of Spent Fuel Transportation in the US, Michael Valenzano, AREVA
• Transportation, Dave Pstrak, NRC 

Spent Fuel Management Programs, Manufacturing and Technology Development
Chair, Steve Bellamy, SRNL

• Current Developments of a SCC resistant canister and New Shock Absorbing Material, Ryoji Asano, Hitachi Zosen 
• NAC Technology and Licensing Update, Juan Subiry, NAC 
• Underground Storage System, Stephan Anton, Holtec 
• NUHOMS EOS: Innovations to Ensure Safe Extended Optimized Storage, Prakash Narayan, AREVA 

Aging Management and Safeguards
Chair, Dr. Jim Shuler, U.S. DOE Packaging Certification Program

• Electric Power Research Institutes Initiatives in Dry Storage, Dr. John Kessler, EPRI 
• Wireless Sensors for In-Situ Dry Cask Monitoring, Chris Heaton, VP, Engeniusmicro 
• Aging Management and Licensing Perspectives, Aladar Csontos, U.S. NRC 
• Update of the ESCP International Data Gap Analyses, Holger Völzke, BAM 
• Monitoring Integrity of Helium in Welded Canisters, Yung Liu, Argonne National Laboratory 

Spent Fuel Management Projects
Chair, Rod McCullum, NEI

• ISFSI License Renewal, Terry Pickens, Xcel 
• Integration of Dry Storage Projects across the Exelon Fleet, Jim Wood, Exelon 

Closing Remarks, Jeff England, INMM Packaging, Transportation and Disposition Division Chair,
Savannah River National Laboratory