Dr. Marvin Resnikoff ~ Decommissioning Nuclear Power 101
Channel: NoNukes NewsZone
Date: 2013-11-06

Dr. Marvin Resnikoff's presentation on what it will take to decommission Southern California Edison's San Onofre nuclear power plant. He talks about the inventory at San Onofre of high burnup nuclear waste which requires a minimum of five to twenty years in cooling pools before it can be moved to dry cask storage, and the potential for the cladding on the high burnup spent fuel assemblies to shatter due to embrittlement. 

This talk was recorded at an October 19, 2013 Community Symposium on Decommissioning San Onofre in San Clemente, California. Featured speakers were Dr. Resnikoff, Dr. Arjun Makhijani and Dr. Don Mosier. 

Find info about high burnup nuclear fuel waste at http://sanonofresafety.org/nuclear-waste/

Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D. is Senior Associate at Radioactive Waste Management Associates and is an international consultant on radioactive waste management issues.  He is Principal Manager at Associates and is Project Director for dose reconstruction and risk assessment studies of radioactive waste facilities and transportation of radioactive materials.  Dr. Resnikoff has concentrated exclusively on radioactive waste issues since 1974.  He has conducted studies on the remediation and closure of the leaking Maxey Flats, Kentucky radioactive landfill for Maxey Flats Concerned Citizens, Inc. and of the leaking uranium basin on the NMI/Starmet site in Concord, Massachusetts under grants from the Environmental Protection Agency.  He also conducted studies of the Wayne and Maywood, New Jersey thorium Superfund sites and proposed low-level radioactive waste facilities at Martinsville (Illinois), Boyd County (Nebraska), Wake County (North Carolina), Ward Valley (California) and Hudspeth County (Texas).  He has conducted several studies of transportation accident risks and probabilities for the State of Nevada and several Nevada counties and dose reconstruction studies of oil pipe cleaners in Mississippi and Louisiana, residents of Canon City, Colorado near a former uranium mill, residents of West Chicago, Illinois near a former thorium processing plant, and residents and former workers at a thorium processing facility in Maywood, New Jersey. 

Learn more about Dr. Resnikoff here: http://www.rwma.com/mr.htm

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