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Fahey, Christine

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Panel Session 3: Featured Country Canada: Management and Disposal of High and Low-Level Waste

This panel featured Senior Executives accountable for the safe management and disposal of most of Canada's radioactive waste liabilities and provided their perspectives on current plans and progress made to date. Topics addressed by the panelists included national policies and programs, the regulatory framework, and actions led by the waste generators and solution implementers to ensure Canada's waste legacy is responsibly managed. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Overview of Canadian Radioactive Waste Policy and Long-Term Waste Management Projects (Dave McCauley, Natural Resources Canada (Canada)); 2 - Featured Country: Canada - National Repository (Laurie Swami, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)); 3 - Management and Disposal of Ontario Power Generation's Low and Intermediate Level Waste (Lise Morton, Ontario Power Generation (Canada)); 4 - Featured Country: Canada - National Laboratories Liabilities (Richard Sexton, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (Canada)); 5 - Management and Disposal of High and Low-Level Waste (Mark Lesinski, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Canada)); 6 - Disposal in Canada: The Regulatory Perspective (Ramzi Jammal, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (Canada))

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Panel Session 11: Featured Country Canada - Remediation of Contaminated Sites

Canada has several unique sites requiring environmental remediation of radiological contaminants. This panel was designed to outline the remediation of contaminated sites across Canada from several perspectives. Remote legacy uranium mining operations, small scale residential locations, and large impacted soil sites all pose different challenges, however there are some common solutions and keys to success. This panel addressed several of those challenges and provided lessons learned on how to successfully plan and execute large scale environmental remediation in both remote and residential locations. This panel focused on the cleaning up several contaminated sites in Canada and monitoring the long-term performance of sites that have already been remediated. Panelists addressed the technical and social challenges associated with various cleanup initiatives North of the 49. Parallel and the solutions that have been adopted to enable these projects to move forward. The panel offered the perspectives of owners, contractors and regulators on current projects and how they are leveraging past experience and learning from others to ensure future undertakings are successful. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Regulating Environmental Remediation in Canada (Michael Rinker, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (Canada)); 2 - Integration of Local Knowledge and Engagement/Capacity Building Legacy Uranium Mine Sites (Joe Muldoon, Saskatchewan Research Council (Canada)); 3 - The Path to Institutional Control - Safe, Secure and Stable (R. Liam Mooney, Cameco Corporation (Canada)); 4 - Port Hope Area Initiative: Project Challenges (Scott Parnell, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Canada))

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Panel Session 12: Featured Country Canada - Engaging the Public and Indigenous Groups in Canadian Waste and D and D Projects

This panel will share insights from those directly involved in the dialogue among members of the Canadian public, elected officials of host communities, indigenous groups, project proponents, and the Canadian regulator. History has shown time and again that the early and meaningful engagement of stakeholders must go hand-in-hand with technical solutions in order to assure the successful start and finish of waste management and decommissioning projects. In this panel discussion, the requirements for consultation and communication, the tools and strategies used, the results of efforts to date, and plans will be addressed by those at the center of some of Canada's biggest and most controversial radioactive waste projects. Presentations proposed include: 1 - Engaging the Public and Indigenous Groups in Canadian Waste and D and D Projects (Candida Cianci, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (Canada)); 2 - Indigenous Engagement (Bob Watts, Nuclear Waste Management Organization (Canada)); 3 - Engaging the Public and Indigenous Groups Related to Canadian Waste and D and D Projects (Patrick Quinn, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Canada)); 4 - Engaging the Public and Indigenous Groups in Canadian Waste and D and D Projects Canadian Association of Nuclear Host Communities Point of View (Blair Skinner, Local Government District of Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada))

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Panel reports session

This section brings together the reports of the 31 panel sessions listed below: - Avoiding the Human Capital Cliff in the DOE (PS22); - Implementing Technically-Based Cleanup; US DOE Balancing Regulatory and Fiscal Complexity (PS24); - United Kingdom - Remediation of Sellafield Legacy Ponds and Silos (PS25); - Aligning Decision-Making to Deliver Timely Results in Large Clean-up Programs (PS38); - Transition to Government Owned-Contractor Operated Site at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (PS39); - Emerging Middle East Nuclear States' Status and Plans (PS40); - NPP Panel on Waste Management (PS41); - Robotics - International Innovations in Robotic Decommissioning Technology (PS43); - Fukushima Panel (1/2): Japan Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Update (PS54); - Fukushima Panel (2/2): Update on the Revitalization of Fukushima and the Surrounding Area (PS55); - US DOE LLW On-Site Disposal: LLW Disposal Facility Federal Review Group Review Process (PS56); - Challenges in DOE HLW Tank Management: Facility Start-up and Waste Disposition (PS57); - Waste Management Planning for Utility Small Modular Reactors (PS58); - US Nuclear Power Plant Waste Management - LLW Disposal Issues (PS59); - DOE-EM Robotics and Emerging Technologies Road-map (4/8) (PS60); - Graduating Students and New Scientists and Engineers - Wants and Needs - Are Companies Even Listening? (PS63); - U.S. Nuclear Robotics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (5/8) (PS74); - US DOE Mixed Waste: Proposals for Dealing with Problematic Waste Streams and Policy Changes (PS76); - Current and Emerging US NRC LLW Regulatory Topics (PS77); - Agency Perspectives (US and International) on the Use of Risk and Dose Assessment Tools (PS80); - Progress on Deep Repository Programs Around the World (PS81); - US DOE Procurement and Contracting Opportunities (PS82); - Collaboration across Borders to Deliver Cleanup and Decommissioning Challenges (PS93a); - DOE Mission Success through Application of Practices and Solutions (PS94); - Challenges in Cask Certification - International Perspectives (PS96); - Robotics: Leveraging Innovations in Science and Technology to Benefit Safety Performance (PS98); - DOE Panel: DOE EM Featured Office - Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PS109); - Robotics: Lessons Learned from Industrial Robotics Deployment that can be Applied to the Nuclear Field (PS110a); - Roundtable: DOE Radioactive Management - Energy Facility Contractors Group - Waste Management Working Group (EFCOG WMWG) (PS118); - Thursday Topical Session 'Management of Used Nuclear Fuel: Will the United States Reengage and Align with International Efforts' (PS124); - Remotely Operated Vehicles for Emergency, Disaster, and Operational Upset Response (PS125)

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