2004 IAEA Training Sessions Summaries
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Introduction to the Training Session
Session 1: Nuclear Waste Disposal Concepts – An Overview of the History of Radioactive Waste Management in the United States
Session 2: Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Session 3: Worldwide Review of URLs and Nuclear Waste Disposal Development
Paul Witherspoon
Session 4: Concepts and Programs for Nuclear Waste Disposal – Trainees’ perspectives
Session 5: Overview of Japanese High Level Waste Management Program
Session 6: Defining Regulatory Dose Standards
Session 7: Regulator's Perspective on Judging the Safety of a Proposed Repository - Overview
Session 9: Institutional Arrangements for Managing Radioactive Waste – Does it Matter? Should we Care?
Session 10: Interactions with the Public – Lessons Learned
Session 11: The Yucca Mountain Project, A Historical Perspective–Interactions with Congress and Oversight Bodies
Session 12: International Views onStaged Repository Development
Session 13: Site Screening and Selection
Session 14: Preliminary Site Characterization
Session 15: Natural and Man-Made Natural Barriers
Session 16: Engineered Barriers
Session 17: Underground Exploratory Studies
Session 18: Repository Design – Integrating Natural and Engineered Barriers
Session 19: Numerical Modeling and Repository Design
Session 20: Total System Performance Assessment
Session 21: Project Management in a Regulatory Environment
Session 22 – International Technical Cooperation
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