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High-Level
Waste Workshop
January 19-20, 2005

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High-Level Waste Workshop
SREL Conference Center Agenda/Presentations

7:30 Registration/coffee & rolls
8:15 Welcome & Introductions - D. Hobbs (SRNL) G. T. Wright (SRNL)
                                               T. Spears (DOE-SR)

8:45 Workshop Agenda/Objectives - D. Hobbs (SRNL)
9:00 EMSP - M. Kuperberg (DOE-HQ) - pdf 647 kb
9:15 SRS: HLW Overview - M. Mahoney (WSRC) and S. Robertson (WSRC) - pdf 1.7 kb

10:15 Break

10:30 Hanford Tank Farms Overview - K. Gasper (CH2MHill) - pdf 2.3 kb
11:00 Hanford WTP Overview - F. Damerow (WGI) - pdf 3.2 kb
11:30 Idaho HLW Overview - T. Todd (INEL) - pdf 172 kb

12:00 Lunch

Project Reviews - Session 1 D. McCabe (SRNL)

1:00 Millimeter-Wave Measurements of High Level and Low Activity Glass Melts
        - P. Woskov (MIT) - pdf 594 kb
1:20 Radioanalytical Chemistry for Automated Nuclear Waste Process Monitoring
        - O. Egorov (PNNL) - pdf 465 kb
1:40 Optical and Microcantilever-Based Sensors for Real-Time In Situ Characterization
       of High-Level Waste
- G. Brown (ORNL) - pdf 289 kb
2:00 Physical Characterization of Solid-Liquid Slurries at High Weight Fractions Utilizing
       Optical and Ultrasonic Methods
- L. Burgess (Washington)

2:20 Break

2:40 Investigating Ultrasonic Diffraction Grating Spectroscopy and Reflection Techniques
       for Characterizing Slurry Properties
- M. Greenwood (PNNL) - pdf 468 kb
3:00 Acoustic Monitor for Liquid-Solid Slurries Measurements at Low Weight Fractions
       - L. Tavlarides (Syracuse) - pdf 704 kb
3:20 Radiochemical Analysis by High Sensitivity Dual-Optic Micro X-ray Fluorescence
        - G. Havrilla (LANL)
- pdf 815 kb
3:40 Foaming and Antifoaming in Radioactive Waste Pretreatment and Immobilization
       Processes
- D. Wasan (IIT) - pdf 2.75 kb

4:00 Break

4:20 A New Class of Solvents for TRU Dissolution and Separation: Ionic Liquids
       - R. Rogers (Alabama) - pdf 1.256 kb
4:40 Novel Fission-Product Separation Based on Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids
       - S. Dai (ORNL) - pdf 241 kb
5:10 Strategic Design and Optimization of Inorganic Sorbents for Cesium,
       Strontium and Actinides - D. Hobbs (SRNL) pdf - 498 kb
5:30 Wrap-up Day 1 Comments/Issues/Collaborations - J. Corey (SRNL)

5:45 Reception/Dinner

January 20, 2005

7:30 Registration/coffee & rolls
8:00 Welcome/Introductory Comments - Bill Wilmarth

Project Reviews - Session 2

8:10 Ion Recognition Approach to Volume Reduction of Alkaline Tank Waste
       by Separation of Sodium Salts
- B. Moyer (ORNL) - pdf 233 kb
8:30 Supramolecular Chemistry of Selective Anion Recognition for Anions
       of Environmental Relevance
- K. Bowman-James (Kansas) - pdf 671 kb
8:50 Computational Design of Metal Ion Sequestering Agents - B. Hay (PNNL) - pdf 6.3 kb
9:10 Fundamental Chemistry of the Universal Extractant (UNEX) for the Simultaneous
       Separation of Fission Products and Transuranics from High-Level Waste
Streams
       - S. Herbst (INEL) - pdf 902 kb

9:30 Break

9:50   Increasing Safety and Reducing Environmental Damage Risk from Aging High-Level
         Radioactive Waste Tanks
- E. Steffler (INEL) pdf 3.54 kb
10:10 Development of Advanced Electrochemical Emission Spectroscopy for Monitoring
         Corrosion in Simulated DOE Liquid Waste
- D. MacDonald (PSU) - pdf 2.7 kb
10:30 Influence of Radiation on Pit Solution Chemistry as It Pertains to the Transition
         from Metastable to Stable Pitting in Steels
- S. Lillard (LANL) - pdf 139 kb
10:50 Physical, Chemical and Structural Evolution of Zeolite-Containing Waste Forms
         Produced from Metakaolinite and Calcined Sodium Bearing Waste

         - M Grutzeck (PSU) - pdf 527 kb

11:10 Break

11:30 Stability of High Level Radioactive Waste Forms - T. Besmann (ORNL) - pdf 393 kb

12:10 Lunch

Project Reviews - Session 3 - C. Jantzen (SRNL)

1:00 Mechanisms and Kinetics of Organic Aging and Characterization of Intermediates
       in High Level Wastes
- D. Camaioni (PNNL) - pdf 3.3 kb
1:20 Precipitation and Deposition of Aluminum-Containing Phases in Tank Wastes
       - S. Mattigod (PNNL) - pdf 1.75 kb
1:40 Characterization of Actinides in Simulated Alkaline Tank Waste Sludges
       and Leach Solutions
- K. Nash (WSU) - pdf 385 kb

2:00 Break

2:20 Chemical Speciation of Strontium, Americium and Curium in High Level Waste: pdf 438 kb
       Predictive Modeling of Phase Partitioning During Tank Processing
- A. Felmy (PNNL)
2:40 Research Program to Study Fundamental Chemistry of Technetium
       - W. Lukens (LBNL) - pdf 469 kb

3:20 Break

3:30 Emerging Issues, Science & Technology Needs - J. Corey (SRNL)
4:30 Adjourn Workshop - D. Hobbs (SRNL)

January 21, 2005
Site/SRNL Tour
8:00 Meet at SRS Visitor Control Office - D. Hobbs (SRNL)