1991 E-MRS Fall Meeting Takes Multidisciplinary Look at Nuclear Waste Disposal
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1991E-MRS Fall Meeting Takes Multidisciplinary Look at Nuclear Waste Disposal The 1991 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society hosted the 15th International Symposium on the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management. Since 1982, the Symposium has been held in Europe every third year. This year for the first time the Symposium was included in an E-MRS meeting. Chaired by C. G. Sombret, (C.E.A./C.E.Valrho, 30205 Bagnols Sur Ceze, France), the Symposium was cosponsored by the Materials Research Society and the Commissariat a FEnergie Atomique of France. Support for the meeting was also provided by the Commission of the European Communities and the U.S. Department of Energy. Perhaps the most unusual feature of this meeting was that the other symposia at the E-MRS meeting covered fields closely related to materials science issues of nuclear waste disposal. This brought together an unusually large, diverse group of researchers whose expertise has many applications in topics related to nuclear waste disposal. The other symposia included: Clays and Hydrosilicate Gels in the Nuclear Field, Solid-State Chemistry of Actinides, Chemistry of Cements for Nuclear Applications, Nuclear Materials for Fission Reactors, and Chemical Modifications Induced by Irradiation of Glasses. Nearly 100 oral and poster presentations were made by researchers from 14 different countries. Over 250 registrants attended the nuclear waste symposium. The Plenary Session featured presentations by J. Teillac, the high commissioner of the CEA, S. Finzi of the Commission of the European Communities, L. Duffy of the U.S. Department of Energy, J. Y. Barre, the director of the Cycle du Combustible (CEA), D. Langmuir of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technology Review Board, and J. Cooper of the U.K. Radiological Protection Board. The sessions spanned a wide range of materials topics: glass properties, corrosion processes and interactions with the environment, ceramics, solid-state actinide chemistry, properties and corrosion of spent fuel, canister materials, natural analogue studies, buffer and backfill materials, flow and transport in repositories. The proceedings will be published as part of the MRS Symposium Proceedings Series, Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management.
Outstanding Young Scientist Awards were presented to student participants
Anette Rother, Institut fiir Nukleare Entsorgungstechnik (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe), for her research on nuclear waste glass corrosion and to Robert Finch, University of New Mexico, for his research on the alteration of uraninite, UO2,X. The venue of the meeting, in the European Parliament and Council of Europe in Strasbourg, provided an extraordinary backdrop for the presentations. The welcoming reception and cocktail party/poster session offered many pleasant opportunities for researchers to meet and discuss their work. The meeting was followed by a series of optional technical tours to the La Hague reprocessing plant and the Cadarache laboratory in France, the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsru
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