SUMMERLIN, NEV — Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) who chairs the House Appropriations Committee’s Energy and Water subcommittee, will join speakers from industry and the Department of Energy in kicking off Exchange Monitor’s retooled Radwaste Summit 2.0.
Fleischmann, who will speak remotely from Washington, D.C., will headline a roundtable discussion of the future of collaboration on waste materials management.
Other speakers on the leadoff panel include Ahmad Al-Daouk, an associate administrator with the National Nuclear Security Administration who among other things leads NNSA’s waste management operations; David Campbell, executive vice president of business development and growth, at EnergySolutions; and Erik Olds, communications director at DOE’s Office of Environmental Management.
The session will be moderated by Eric Knox, vice president for strategic development with Amentum’s nuclear security group.
A regulatory panel later on Tuesday will feature Aaron White, the DOE Office of Environmental Management regulatory compliance director; Idaho Falls Mayor Rebecca Casper; Ashley Forbes, deputy director for radioactive materials at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and Miriam Juckett, spent fuel stakeholder engagement director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state.
In addition to Juckett, a nuclear site security panel will include DOE Environmental Management chief information officer Jeanne Beard, Richard Koenig, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions in South Carolina program manager for nonproliferation and Bradley Loftin nuclear nonproliferation project specialist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Tuesday’s sessions will conclude with a discussion of safety initiatives to prevent future accidents at reactors and other nuclear facilities. The panel is made up of Kent Fortenberry, United Cleanup Oak Ridge’s chief operating officer, Andrew Lombardo, a Perma-Fix executive vice president and Jay Tarzia, executive director of Radiation Safety & Control Services, who will serve as moderator.
Early arrivals at RadWaste Summit 2.0, which combines the RadWaste Summit and the Decommissioning Strategy Forum, took part in a Monday tour of DOE’s Nevada National Security Site. The Radwaste Summit’s new approach will focus on current topics radioactive wastes in both federal and commercial settings.
The conference continues Wednesday and Thursday with speakers including from the federal government, the nuclear power industry, nuclear decommissioning companies and tribal representatives.
