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Brittany
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What kind of nuclear waste research is funded in the US?
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Taylor Zhao
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This might be a good resource:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/nwp/
I also know that Fluor, the construction company, is involved in disposing and shutting down nuclear plants. Good luck with your search!
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/nwp/
I also know that Fluor, the construction company, is involved in disposing and shutting down nuclear plants. Good luck with your search!
Joseph Neilson
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There's several different areas of nuclear waste research. Personally, I work in waste measurement and characterization - I know quite a lot of the technologies I use have come from US-funded research. Also, on my side of "the pond", a lot of the research I see is in waste chemistry and in geology for deep geological disposal; but there's so many other things going on.
A good place to start to look into US-funded research might be to look into the Phoenix Waste Management Symposium - that's perhaps the biggest conference collecting US and international waste management research. They organize their program into different technical tracks:
Track 1: Crosscutting Policies and Programs
Track 2: High-Level Radioactive Wastes, Spent Nuclear Fuel/Used Nuclear Fuel, and Long-Lived Alpha/Transuranic Radioactive Waste
Track 3: Low-Level Waste, Intermediate Level Waste, Very Low-Level Waste, Mixed Waste, By Product Material, TENORM, NORM Residues, Enriched and Depleted Uranium
Track 4: Nuclear Power Plant Waste Management and On-Site SNF/USF Storage
Track 5: Packaging and Transportation
Track 6: Decontamination & Decommissioning
Track 7: Environmental Remediation
Track 8: Communication, Education, and Training of Technical and Management Issues and Impacts
Track 9: Special Topics and Multi-Track Cross Cutting Technology
Track 10: Leveraging STEM for the Future
Track 11: Advanced Nuclear Reactors for Electrical Power and Other Application
Track 12: Miscellaneous: Unassigned & Late Abstracts, & Non-Paper Posters
Perhaps the topics and breadth of those different tracks might give you a flavor of the types of research there are in nuclear waste.
A good place to start to look into US-funded research might be to look into the Phoenix Waste Management Symposium - that's perhaps the biggest conference collecting US and international waste management research. They organize their program into different technical tracks:
Track 1: Crosscutting Policies and Programs
Track 2: High-Level Radioactive Wastes, Spent Nuclear Fuel/Used Nuclear Fuel, and Long-Lived Alpha/Transuranic Radioactive Waste
Track 3: Low-Level Waste, Intermediate Level Waste, Very Low-Level Waste, Mixed Waste, By Product Material, TENORM, NORM Residues, Enriched and Depleted Uranium
Track 4: Nuclear Power Plant Waste Management and On-Site SNF/USF Storage
Track 5: Packaging and Transportation
Track 6: Decontamination & Decommissioning
Track 7: Environmental Remediation
Track 8: Communication, Education, and Training of Technical and Management Issues and Impacts
Track 9: Special Topics and Multi-Track Cross Cutting Technology
Track 10: Leveraging STEM for the Future
Track 11: Advanced Nuclear Reactors for Electrical Power and Other Application
Track 12: Miscellaneous: Unassigned & Late Abstracts, & Non-Paper Posters
Perhaps the topics and breadth of those different tracks might give you a flavor of the types of research there are in nuclear waste.