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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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