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Session 36 Abstracts On the basis of the different inventories of industrial sites where radium may have been held or used, and notably the inventory updated by the French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire IRSN) in 2007 at the request of the French Nuclear Safety Authority (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire ASN), French State services have potentially identified 134 sites that hosted radium-related activities in France. The radiological status of those sites is either unknown or very partially… 2) ANDRA’S REMEDIATION MISSIONS (w/oP-59210) Patrick Poiret, Eric Lanes, Andra (France) For many years now, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs Andra) has been cleaning up several sites contaminated with radioactivity, bearing in mind that all such remediation missions share the unique peculiarity of being performed entirely outside the nuclear-power-generation field. Thanks to the 2006 Planning Act and the new corporate circular in the legal field, to the implementation of the CNAR for organisational purposes, to the public technical subsidy for dedicated storage facilities and the disposal facility for VLL waste (Centre TFA) from a financial standpoint, Andras new structure is now in place to ensure a proactive approach to manage the environmental liabilities arising from the sites polluted by radioactive materials, which, although scarce in number, each confront us with a specific challenge. 3) URANIUM MILL TAILINGS REMEDIATION IN THE USA. A HISTORY AND LESSONS LEARNED (w/oP-59407) Steve Rima, AMEC (USA) Since the 1940s uranium ores have been processed at various locations in the United States to extract and produce uranium and other concentrated materials, first for government (weapons) research and production, and then for nuclear power production. The tailings residue from the uranium milling process contained radioactive (primarily Ra-226) and hazardous chemicals. Large volumes of tailings were produced during the milling process. In the early history of this process the tailings were not recognized as hazardous and were released to the general public for a wide variety of uses, resulting in significant spread of contamination in the vicinity of many operating mills. In the late 1960s and early 1970s laws were enacted at the state and federal level to begin to deal with the legacy of this contamination. Over the course of the next several decades various regulatory agencies were responsible for remediating these sites. Different approaches were used, different end points and definitions of clean were used, and very large sums of public funding were spent on remediating these sites. Rarely was the cost commensurate with the risk reduction obtained through remediation. This paper will present an overview of the history of the uranium mill tailings regulatory and remediation program in the United States, the cost of the program compared to risk reduction, successes and failures, and important lessons learned that should be applied to future efforts in this area. 4) REMEDIATION OF CANADA’S HISTORIC HAUL ROUTE FOR RADIUM AND URANIUM ORES: THE NORTHERN TRANSPORTATION ROUTE (wP-59303) Robert Brian Geddes, Chris Wenzel, AMEC; Michael Owen, Mark J. Gardiner, AECL; Julie Brown, Natural Resources Canada’s (Canada) Established in the 1930s, the Northern Transportation Route (NTR) served to transport pitchblende ore 2,200km from the Port Radium Mine in Canadas Northwest Territories to Fort McMurray in Alberta. From there, the ore was shipped 3,000km by rail to the town of Port Hope, Ontario where it was refined for its radium content and used for medical purposes. Later, refinement focussed on uranium content. The corridor of lakes, rivers, portages and roads that made up the NTR included a number of transfer points, where ore was unloaded and transferred to other barges or trucks. Ore was occasionally spilled during these transfer operations and, in some cases, subsequently distributed over larger areas as properties were re-developed or modified. In addition, relatively small volumes of ore were sometimes transported by air to the south. Since 1992, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (LLRWMO) has conducted surveys to identify and characterize spill sites along the NTR where soils exhibit elevated concentrations of uranium, radium and/or arsenic. In addition to significant areas of impact in Fort McMurray, contamination along the NTR was centred in the Sahtu region near Great Bear Lake and along the southern part of the Slave River. Early radiological investigations found… SESSION 37 — YOUNG GENERATION NETWORK (YGN) AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (5.16) 1) THE REESTABLISHMENT OF RADIOCHEMISTRY ACADEMIC PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES (w/oP-59025) Craig Williamson, South Carolina Universities Research and Education Foundation (USA) Despite its importance in national security, medicine, energy, and in waste management radiochemistry education in the United States has gone through two lost decades. In the 1970s ten to fifteen universities were granting between thirty (30) and forty (40) doctoral degrees a year. By the 1980s those numbers had declined to twenty (20) and thirty (30) a year, by the 1990s the numbers had again decreased to below fifteen (15) Ph.D.s a year. In the year 2000, the data shows that only 5 Ph.D.s in radiochemistry were awarded. The causes for this decline is directly attributed to the lack of federal support for an academic discipline that for the most part depends on federal funding. In 2011, it is expected that over thirty (30) doctoral degrees in radiochemistry will be conferred. The turn around in radiochemistry education in the United States can be directly attributed to the support provided by the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense and Homeland Security. In addition, support has come from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and from the National Nuclear Security Administration. The form of this support has been extensive from proposed undergraduate research programs, scholarships, graduate fellowships, junior faculty awards, curriculum awards, and grants… 100
Abstracts Session 38 2) PLANNING FOR DECOMMISSIONING OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES - THE VIEWS OF YOUNGER STAKEHOLDERS (wP-59222) Staffan Lindskog, Swedísh Radiation Safety Authority; Bea Labor, Badania Dydaktycne Project 2010 (Sweden/Poland) (<strong>Final</strong> paper received and Copyrights pending) Title: Nuclear as a semi-sustainable energy source the views of younger stakeholders It is planned that many nuclear facilities will be decommissioned in the near future. This challenge includes certified repositories for LLW and ILW, procedures for classification and free release, systems for transportation, planning activities, and liaison with the public. The last item can have a substantial impact on the efficiency of decommissioning projects. Insufficient dialogue with various stakeholder groups can be a factor that drives costs, whilst appropriate programs, means and environments for communication and knowledge transfer may facilitate the establishment of contemporary and comprehensive bases for decisions and thereby also enhance the possibility for consensus and thereby achieve feasible and sustainable solutions. The programs thus decided for the decommissioning of nuclear facilities and the management of the nuclear waste must then be communicated openly and constitute an integral part of the stakeholder related activities. The nuclear renaissance implies as well as calls for newer platforms for communications with the stakeholders. This communication must include how compliance with the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) (and also preferably the Extended Polluter Responsibility, EPR) is to be achieved, i. e. how the generation harvesting the benefits from nuclear electricity will… 3) GRADUATE OR APPRENTICE? HOW NUCLEAR TRAINING PROVISION HAS CHANGED THE SHAPE OF THE NUCLEAR EMPLOYMENT MARKET (w/oP- 59415) Corhyn Parr, Nuclear Enterprise (UK) ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE 4) NUCLEAR KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT - OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES PROPOSED BY SFEN YOUNG GENERATION (SFEN-JG) Guillaume Vaast, SGN–Pierrelatte (France) ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE SESSION 38 — MEETING: YOUNG GENERATION NETWORK (YGN) AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (5.17) ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE SESSION 39A — POSTER SESSION: FACILITY DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING A-1) USE OF HIGHLY PRESURIZED LIQUID NITROGEN TECHNOLOGY FOR CONCRETE SCABBLING APPLICATION AT SICN NUCLEAR FACILITIY (wP-59282) Fabrice Moggia, Claire-Emilie Vaudey, Thierry Varet, Valérie Toulemonde, AREVA; Frédéric Richard, Air Liquide CTAS; Gary Anderson, Nitrocision; Frédérique Damerval, AREVA (France/USA) Dismantling and decommissioning (D&D) operations of nuclear site facilities usually involve the implementation of a large number of technologies. These technologies are mostly dedicated to decontamination, cutting and concrete scabbling operations. Technologies used for example for concrete scabbling are: disk sander, bush hammer, water jet, planer & Such mechanicals processes proved to work since facilities are being decommissioned; however as larger projects are foreseen, the capability of such applications to fulfill the requirement in term of economics, techniques and environment/social remains uncertain. Indeed, the efficiency and the speed rate remains low, many operators are required to operate, implying a high dosimetry, the working conditions are strenuous and finally the operations could last several years for large surfaces& For all these reasons, it seems necessary to search for new technologies, which would bring sustainability to the D&D operations while carrying a higher standard in terms of safety, easiness and economic value. The Nitrojet technology is a process able to produce liquid nitrogen at low temperature and very high pressure (up to 4000 bar). Liquid nitrogen is collected from a tank to be pressurized in a specific skid. The nitrogen stream can then be applied on the substrate The use of this new… A-2) METHODOLOGY OF EXTERNAL EXPOSURE CALCULATION FOR REUSE OF CONDITIONAL RELEASED MATERIALS FROM DECOMMISSIONING (wP-59138) Frantisek Ondra, Marek Vaako, DECOM, a.s.; Vladimir Necas, Slovak University of Technology (Slovakia) Conditional release of materials is a part of nuclear installation decommissioning that can significantly influenced radioactive waste management, radioactive waste repository capacity usage as well as total decommissioning cost. For performance of conditional released materials scenarios it is needed to determine radiological, material, organizational and other conditions for conditionally released materials reuse to not breach exposure limits for staff and public during scenarios life cycle (preparation, construction and operation of scenario). The article presents a methodology for determination of above mentioned conditions to ensure that staff and public exposure does not breach the limits. The methodology comprises a proposal of following conditions in the view of staff and public exposure: • radionuclide limit concentration of conditionally released materials for specific scenarios and nuclide vectors, • specific deployment of conditionally released materials eventually shielding materials, staff and public during the scenarios life cycle, 101
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FINAL PROGRAM ICEM’11 ICEM’11 T
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Page 123 and 124: Abstracts Session 52 The geological
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