Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Restoration for Canada’s Nuclear Activities

“Current Practices and Future Needs”

DATE: Sep 11 - Sep 14 2011

Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre
525 Bay Street 
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L2 Canada
 Conference Information Contact:
Elizabeth Muckle-Jeffs
E-mail: elizabeth@theprofessionaledge.com
Tel. North America Toll-free: 1-800-868-8776
Tel. International: 613-732-7068

Registration Information Contact:
Denise Rouben
E-mail: cns-snc@on.aibn.com
Tel. (416) 977-7620

 

Contents 

 

Background

The Canadian Nuclear Society is pleased to announce a conference on Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Restoration for Canada's Nuclear Activities, to be held September 11-14, 2011 at the Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre, in downtown Toronto.  An equipment and services exhibition is planned in conjunction with the Conference.

The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of views on the technical, regulatory and social challenges and opportunities for radioactive waste management, nuclear facility decommissioning and environmental restoration activities in Canada.  The conference is organized into plenary sessions and technical tracks:  Low-and intermediate-level wastes; Uranium mining and milling wastes; Irradiated nuclear fuel management; Decommissioning; Environmental restoration; Policy, economics and social issues; Licensing and regulatory issues; and Radioactive materials transportation.  Papers are being solicited in all of these tracks.  Potential topic areas are listed below.

 

Registration

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Click HERE to register for the CNS Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Restoration Conference 2011 September 11-14

Paper Summaries

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Second Announcement and Call for Paper Summaries

Paper Summaries should be approximately 750 to 1200 words in length (tables and figures counted as 150 words each).

They should include:

  • an introductory statement indicating the purpose of the work
  • a description of the work performed
  • the results achieved


Summaries are to be submitted no later than October 4, 2010 by e-mail to Mark Chapman: CNSP2011@aecl.ca

Summary Formatting

Use the following Microsoft Word template to prepare your Summary:
Summary Template (MS Word file)

 

Papers

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Full papers should include enough information for a clear presentation of the topic. Usually this can be achieved in 8-12 pages, including figures and tables. The use of 12-point Times New Roman font is suggested. The name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information of the author(s) should appear below the title of the paper. An abstract of 50-100 words should be placed at the beginning of the full paper, after the title and author names. Abstracts will be collected in an Abstract Book as a guide to the contents of the presentations. For a paper to appear in the Conference Proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the Conference by the “early” registration date (June 10, 2011).

Questions regarding papers and the Technical Program should be addressed to Mark Chapman
E-mail: CNSP2011@aecl.ca

Topic Areas

  • International perspectives (focussing on lessons learned of value to Canada), for example, overviews of the approaches and programs in other countries to waste management, decommissioning and environmental restoration
  • Integrated planning of waste management, decommissioning and environmental restoration activities
  • Governance and management arrangements
  • Standards, management systems, quality assurance and quality control
  • Public (including First Nations) involvement
  • Host community issues
  • Regulatory and safeguards requirements, mechanisms and issues
  • Government policies, programs and mechanisms for governmental involvement
  • Waste avoidance, minimization and recycling
  • In-station/facility waste collection and segregation
  • Life cycle economics and cost-benefit analysis of materials management
  • Waste characterization, classification, segregation, blending, processing, immobilisation and packaging
  • Waste clearance, handling of very low-level wastes and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) and technologically enhanced NORM (TENORM)
  • Waste handling, transportation and storage processes
  • Assessing the performance of waste processing, storage and disposal facilities
  • Characterizing sites for existing and new waste management facilities
  • Operating and maintaining waste management facilities, both large and small
  • Managing projects to improve existing waste management facilities or to create new waste management capabilities
  • Status of field research capabilities
  • Laboratory-based and other research and development activities and needs
  • Institutional capability for stewardship of long-term waste management solutions
  • Lessons to be drawn from the non-nuclear industries for nuclear waste management facilities & decommissioning
  • Factors determining the scale and selection of end-state and timing of the decommissioning of large facilities
  • Differences between decommissioning nuclear power plants, research reactors and other nuclear facilities
  • Hazards assessments for facilities in decommissioning and for decommissioning activities
  • Permanently shutting down operating facilities and establishing a sustainable safe shutdown state
  • Management and upkeep of shutdown facilities being held for deferred decommissioning
  • Experience with decommissioning tools and radiation protection measures
  • Lessons learned from decommissioning projects
  • Managing waste from decommissioning projects
  • Managing decommissioning information in the long term
  • Human factors issues involved in waste management and decommissioning programs
  • Overview of current decommissioning experience with nuclear facilities
  • Environmental monitoring of sites and facilities that release or harbour contamination
  • Modelling and assessing the nature, extent and future evolution of environmental contamination
  • Assessing the condition of aging waste management storage facilities and their contents
  • Defining the desired end-state of restoration and remediation activities 
  • Removing sources of contamination
  • Reducing the forces driving the spread of contamination spread (e.g., groundwater flow, precipitation)
  • Capturing, immobilizing and removing environmental contamination
  • Managing waste from environmental remediation and restoration activities
  • Lessons learned from environmental restoration/ remediation projects (e.g., on both carrying out environmental restoration projects and on designing new facilities to prevent future releases or make cleanups easier)  
  • Parallels/differences between Environmental Assessments (EAs) for different types of projects, facilities, or activities
  • Experience in performing and presenting EAs
  • Making the EA process timely and cost-efficient

Important Dates for Authors

Deadline for Paper Summaries: October 4, 2010
Notification of acceptance: November 12, 2010
Deadline for full papers: May 13, 2011
Comments on papers to authors: August 15, 2011
Submission of final full papers: September 11, 2011

Copyright

Copyright in papers submitted to the Waste Management, Decommissioning and Environmental Restoration Conference remains with the author, but the CNS may freely reproduce the papers in print, electronic or other forms. The CNS retains a royalty-free right to charge fees for such material as it sees fit.

 

Technical Tours

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Post-conference Technical Tours
Technical tours are being planned to three Canadian nuclear facilities: the Port Hope Area Initiative Welcome Waste Management Facility, Ontario Power Generation’s Darlington Waste Management Facility, and Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geologic Repository and Western Waste Management Facility.

Please click to access the Post-conference Technical Tours schedule.

 

Hotels

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The official conference hotel is the 
Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre 
525 Bay Street 
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2L2 Canada 
Tel.: 416-597-9200
Fax: 416-597-9211
Toll-free: 1-800-905-0667

Please note: The Toronto International Film Festival is running during the dates of the conference and hotel accommodation during the festival is very limited. Be sure to make your hotel reservation as soon as possible.

The hotel is offering conference participants the special rate of CAD$199 single or double occupancy plus applicable taxes. Reservations are to be made directly with the hotel, starting September 25, 2010. The cut-off date to make reservations is Friday, August 22, 2011.

 

More Information

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Organizing Committee

Colin Allan (AECL, retired), Conference General Chair
Alan Melnyk (AECL), Technical Program Chair
Ken Dormuth (AECL retired), Plenary Session Chair
Joan Miller (AECL), Sponsorships and Exhibits
Tracy Sanderson (AECL), Treasurer
Benjamin Rouben (CNS), Facilities
Pauline Witzke (OPG), Judy Ryan (COG, retired), Barbara Gray (AECL, retired), Technical and Social Tours
Jo-Ann Facella (NWMO)
Ken Gullen (Cameco Corporation)
Don Howard (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission)
Kathleen Hollington (Natural Resources Canada)
Janice Hudson (OPG)
Dave McCauley (Natural Resources Canada)
Jamie Robinson (NWMO)

Conference Administrator

Elizabeth Muckle-Jeffs
The Professional Edge
1027 Pembroke Street East, Suite 200
Pembroke, Ontario K8A 3M4
Ph: North America Toll Free: 1-800-868-8776
International: 613-732-7068
Fax: 613-732-3386
E-mail: Elizabeth@theprofessionaledge.com

Conference Registrar

Denise Rouben
Canadian Nuclear Society
400 University Avenue, Suite 200
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V2
Tel.: 416-977-7620
Fax: 416-663-3504
E-mail: cns-snc@on.aibn.com

 

Sponsors

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This conference is being organized by the Canadian Nuclear Society in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and is co-sponsored by the American Nuclear Society, Argentina Nuclear Technology Association, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, the Chinese Nuclear Society, the Indian Nuclear Society, the Korean Nuclear Society, the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD and the Romanian Nuclear Energy Association.

 

Full papers should include enough information for a clear presentation of the topic. Usually this can be achieved in 8-12 pages, including figures and tables. The use of 12-point Times New Roman font is suggested. The name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information of the author(s) should appear below the title of the paper. An abstract of 50-100 words should be placed at the beginning of the full paper, after the title and author names. Abstracts will be collected in an Abstract Book as a guide to the contents of the presentations. For a paper to appear in the Conference Proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the Conference by the “early” registration date (June 10, 2011).

Questions regarding papers and the Technical Program should be addressed to Mark Chapman
E-mail: chapmanmw@aecl.ca