AGENDA

Monday 13th June – Academic Forum

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19:00 - 22:00

Poster presentations by 10 PhD students, networking drinks reception and buffet

Tuesday 14th June – Day One Main Conference

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08:15 - 09:00

Delegate Registration & Exhibition

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09:00 - 09:10

Opening Plenary Session

Welcome & Opening – James McKinney, NDA

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09:10 - 09:25

Importance of waste management to delivery of NDA’s mission

  • David Peattie, CEO, NDA
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09:25 - 09:40

Developing policy for radioactive waste management

  • Chris Heffer, Director of Nuclear Power, Infrastructure & Decommissioning, BEIS
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09:40 - 10:00

NDA Strategy – driving forward our clean-up and decommissioning mission

  • Clive Nixon, Group Chief Nuclear Strategy Officer, NDA
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10:00 - 11:00

Q&A Panel

  • Panel Chair: Saralyn Thomas, YGN
  • Martin Chown, CEO, Sellafield
  • Corhyn Parr, CEO, Nuclear Waste Services
  • Paul Winkle, COO, Magnox
  • Mark England, EDF Energy
  • Seth Kybird, CEO, Nuclear Transport Solutions
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11:00 - 11:30

Refreshment Break

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11:30 - 12:45

Sustainability and Net Zero Session

  • Session Chair: Lisa Maxwell, Head of Integrated Waste Management, Sellafield

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11:35 - 11:50

Keynote: Why is it important to have sustainability in nuclear waste management

  • Davide Stronati – Director of Sustainability, NDA
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11:50 - 12:15

Panel Discussion:
Is what we do in waste management already sustainable and how do we respond to the challenge of net zero?

  • Davide Stronati- Director of Sustainability, NDA
  • Mark Weaver- Nuclear Transport Solutions
  • Claire Gallery-Strong – Nuclear Waste Services
  • Steve Palethorpe – National Nuclear Laboratory
  • Francis Livens – Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester
  • Tracy Braithwaite – Environment Agency
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12:15 - 12:35

Q&A Panel and Live Audience Poll

  • Madeleine Archer, Sellafield Ltd
  • Arun Khuttan, NDA
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12:35 - 12:45

Key Messages – Highlights

  • Lisa Maxwell, Sellafield
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12:45 - 13:45

Lunch

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13:45 - 14:45

Workshop Session 1
(please pre-book your choice on registration)

Exploring the opportunities that AGRs entering the decommissioning phase of their lifecycle brings  (hosted by EDF Energy)

  • Claire Wallace – EDF Energy

Industry and academia working together – how to increase visibility of academic work; making it real  (hosted by NDA and NNL)

  • Shaun Roberts – NDA
  • Lindsay Edmiston – NNL
  • Rick Short – NDA
  • Charlotte Parrington – NDA
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14:45 - 15:45

Workshop Session 2
(please pre-book your choice on registration)

Management of Non-Radioactive Wastes
(hosted by Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) 

  • Oliver Steele – Nuclear Waste Services
  • Holly Cresswell – Nuclear Waste Services
  • Annesa Ahmad – Westinghouse Electric Company
  • Nick fellows – Fellow Environmental

Collaboratively working in Effluent Management & Application of the Aqueous & Effluent Good Practice Guidance on the Sellafield Site (hosted by Sellafield)

  • Simon Kellet, Sellafield
  • Jay Dunsford – Sellafield

Future integration of Measurement Technology into Nuclear Plants and D&D (hosted by Mirion Technologies)

  • Patrick Chard – Mirion Technologies
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15:45 - 16:00

Refreshment Break

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16:00 - 17:00

Digitalisation Session
Session Chair: Dave Clark, NDA

  • Improving Data in Waste Management,  Felipe Basaglia, Sellafield
  • Transforming data into Enterprise-Wide Modelling, Graham Cantillon, NWS
  • Digital Fluidity- Increasing the skills of the UK workforce, Daniel Brown, OEUK
  • Q&A Panel
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17:00

Close of conference day

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18:45 - 23:00

Conference Dinner

Venue – The Museum of Science and Industry
(must be pre-booked with registration)

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18:45 - 19:15

Welcome drinks in lobby

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19:15 - 19:30

Sit down to dinner

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19:30 - 22:45

Dinner

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22:45 - 23:00

Thanks and farewell from Jasbir Sidhu, NI President

Wednesday 15th June – Day Two Main Conference

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08:30 - 08:50

Delegate Registration & Exhibition

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08:50 - 09:00

Welcome back – James McKinney, NDA

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09:00 - 10:00

Insights from International Experience Session

  • Session Chair: Tony Godley, International Relations Manager, NDA
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09:10 - 09:20

Outline of the role of NDA IR in optimising the mutual benefits to be derived from international experience – Tony Godley, International Relations Manager, NDA

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09:20 - 09:30

The Australian approach to IWM – Sam Usher, CEO, Australian Radioactive Waste Agency

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09:30 - 09:40

Factors driving IWM in France – Daniel Delort, Head of International Relations Department, ANDRA

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09:40 - 09:50

Factors driving IWM in Germany – Thilo Berlepsch, Technical Director, BGE Technology

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09:50 - 10:00

Factors driving IWM in the US – David Rossiter, Project Director, Amentum

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10:00 - 10:30

Refreshment Break

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10:30 - 11:45

Creativity and Innovation Session

  • Session Chair: Helen Cassidy, Nuclear Waste Services
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10:35 - 10:45

Innovative thinking

  • Colin Mair, NDA
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10:45 - 10:55

The UK Waste Management Challenge

  • Craig Ashton, Waste Management Services Director, Nuclear Waste Services
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10:55 - 11:05

Thinking Differently about Sort and Segregation

  • Hilary Royston-Bishop, Sellafield
  • Andy Gray, NDA
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11:05 - 11:15

Melting Higher Activity Waste: A National Opportunity

  • David Connolly, Sellafield
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11:15 - 11:25

The type IW container

  • Dan Fisher, Nuclear Transport Solutions
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11:25 - 11:35

Innovate to Dispose: Solving MOD’s problematic IXR problems

  • Christine Bruce, MOD
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11:35 - 11:40

TRS Drums Project: Waste reclassification with a creative disposition twist

  • Tim Bond, Magnox
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11:40 - 11:45

Q&A Panel

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11:45 - 12:00

Refreshment Break

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12:00 - 13:00

Workshop Session 3
(please pre-book your choice on registration)

Innovation in Characterisation

  • Paul McMorn, Cavendish

NDA Estate Waste Challenges: underpinning and optimising the baseline

  • Andy Sealby, Sellafield
  • David Connolly, Sellafield
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13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

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14:00 - 15:15

Sustainable approaches to delivering Site End States

  • Session Chair: Dr Juliet Long FIEMA CEnv, Chief Strategist: Site Decommissioning & Remediation, NDA
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14:15 - 14:25

Optimised waste management for sustainable decommissioning

  • Andrew Craze, Nuclear Regulation Group Manager, Environment Agency
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14:25 - 14:40

Optimising the Dounreay End State –Applying waste hierarchy

  • Dr Alex Proverbio, Environmental Specialist, DSRL
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14:40 - 14:55

Challenges in on-site disposal

  • Ellanor Joyce, Site End States Manager – Winfrith, Magnox
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14:55 - 15:15

Panel Session:
Delivering optimised waste management and site end states

  • Andrew Craze, Environment Agency
  • Ellanor Joyce, Magnox
  • Alex Proverbio, DSRL
  • Rob Ward, NuLEAF
  • Dr Adrian Punt, NIGLQ
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15:15

Closing Plenary

  • (TBC)

Conference purpose

To help enable a more innovative, integrated, and sustainable approach to radioactive waste management. Drawing on expertise within our industry, understanding progress in other sectors and internationally, and looking to the ever-expanding possibilities of the future to shape a better waste future for the nuclear industry and beyond.

Conference objectives

  • Drive forward integrated waste management solutions that will shape our waste future
  • Learn, share and identify key actions to make integrated waste management more sustainable, innovative, transparent and engaging
  • Creating a waste management community that brings together policy, strategy and business leaders, academia and industry representatives and experts

THIS YEAR’S THEMES INCLUDE

Sustainability

Why is it important to have sustainable solutions for radioactive waste management?

Digitalisation

Improving data in waste management.

Creativity and innovation

What is innovation and why do we innovate?

The international landscape

The role the UK is playing internationally and an opportunity to hear from those leading radioactive waste programmes elsewhere in the world.