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Monday Morning Opening Session
SESSION 1 - PLENARY - OPENING SESSION
Monday: 9:00am -12:30pm Room: Salle Royale
The Opening Session will begin Monday morning with
the keynote presentations setting the theme for this
year’s conference. Coffee will be served on the 2nd
floor Foyer from 08:00 until the program begins at
9:00am.
A break is scheduled after the third speaker.
The Welcome speakers and Keynote speakers are:
• Mr. Christophe Behar, Nuclear Energy Director,
CEA (France)
• Ms. Tracy Mustin, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary for EM, DOE (USA)
• Mr. Francois-Michel Gonnot, Chairman of the
Board, Andra (France)
• Dr. Tero Varjoranta, Director, Division of
Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology, IAEA
(Austria)
• Mr. Arnaud Gay, Executive Vice President of the
Nuclear Sites Value Development Business Unit,
AREVA (France)
Special Panel Sessions
Listed below is a brief summary on the ICEM2011
panels. A more comprehensive and detailed description
and the panelists are listed in the Technical Program
section with each Session.
Poster Sessions
The conference technical program will contain three
major Poster Sessions on Monday - Wednesday
arranged from the five Technical Tracks. The leading
objective for the poster sessions is to provide a forum
for experts in the field and interested attendees to gather
in the RCC where they can move around freely and
engage in discussions, which would normally not be
possible during the oral sessions. The three best Posters
from each Track will be displayed on Thursday
morning.
SESSION 2: APPROACHES FOR
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION (5.18)
Monday: 1:45pm - 6:00pm Room: 1
An important element to reducing the cost and schedule
of a country’s and/or organization’s environmental
remediation mission is forming key international
collaborative partnerships that focus on identifying and
leveraging international expertise, infrastructure, and
collaboration opportunities. This panel will provide an
overview of the different approaches and initiatives
used to promote international collaboration in
environmental remediation and/or radioactive waste
management, with a focus on the challenges and
opportunities unique to each country and/or
organization.
Panelists Include: Mark Butez, Andra (France);
John Mathieson, NDA (UK); Ian Bainbridge, AECL
(Canada); Jong-Kil Park, KHNP (Korea);
Malgorzata K. Sneve, Norwegian Radiation Protection
Authority (Norway)
SESSION 3: LESSONS LEARNED: FUKUSHIMA,
CHERNOBYL-25 YEARS LATER, TMI-2 &
OTHER EXPERIENCES (3.11)
Monday: 1:45pm - 6:00pm Room: Salle Royale
This panel was initially planned to discuss confinement
activities and lessons learned from Chernobyl at a time
of 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident (April
26, 1986), lessons from TMI-2 accident (March 28,
1979) and other industry experience with smaller
events. However, the natural events of March 11, 2011
(large earthquake and tsunami) led to the accident at the
Fukushima- Dai-ichi complex which has been given the
highest rating of seven on the international scale,
equivalent to that of the 1986 Chernobyl crisis. The
recovery efforts at Fukushima are still ongoing. This
panel will discuss lessons learned from Fukushima,
Chernobyl, and TMI-2 related to recovery, confinement,
decommissioning, and future design lessons.
Panelists Include: Dr. Tero Varjoranta, IAEA
(Austria); Sergii Mitichkin, Chernobyl NPP (Ukraine);
Thomas Chauveau, Bouygues-Construction (France);
Didier Dall’ava, CEA/DEN/DADN (France);
Svetlana Bratskaya, Institute of Chemistry of Russian
Academy of Science (Russia); Dominique Greneche,
SFEN (France); and Claudio Pescatore, OECD/NEA
(France)
SESSION 10: EMERGING ISSUES IN THE
MANAGEMENT OF I/ILW (1.16)
Tuesday: 8:30am - 12:30pm Room: 1
This panel will focus on strategies for the management
of all low and intermediate level waste (L/ILW). Based
on experience in different national programs, it will
discuss various options and their merits for managing
L/ILW. It will consider the definition of different
categories of L/ILW and their potential routes for
disposal including waste of very low activity, often
arising in high volumes as contaminated land, or from
decommissioning. There will be discussion on large,
disused components that are part of the
decommissioning L/ILW waste stream. The
engineering of facilities for the disposal of all such
wastes should be proportionate to the long-term
environmental impact that might arise.
Panelists Include: Irena Mele, Section Head of Waste
Technology, IAEA (Austria); Keith McConnell,
Deputy Director, US NRC (USA); Bruno Cahen,
Director, Andra (France); Geraldine Dandrieux, Head
of Waste, Research Facilities and Fuel Cycle Facilities
Department (France); Kazuyuki Kato, Federation of
Electric Power Companies (Japan); Paul Dixon, Los
Alamos National Lab (USA); and Dick Raaz, Chairman
and Director, UK LLWR (UK)
SESSION 11: HOW CAN NETWORKS IMPROVE
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ER PROJECTS?
THE IAEA NETWORK ON ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT AND REMEDIATION-
ENVIRONET (4.15)
Tuesday: 8:30am-12:30pm Room: 4
Environmental remediation projects tend to be
constrained by several aspects being the lack of
financial resources one of the most prominent factors.
However, even when financial resources are available
lack of institutional framework (e.g. lack of
regulations), lack of human resources, and absence of a
solid technical basis at the national level will contribute
to slow the pace of implementation. Networking intends
to bring problem holders and solution donors together
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