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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, July 30, 2025
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM CST
    Registration Open
  • 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM CST
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CST
    Speakers' Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 8:40 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Source Removal + Recovery I
    Chair: William Stewart – Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Co-Chair: David Oliver – NAC International Inc.
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – SEC: Techniques for Mitigating Security - Related Events
    Chair: Sylvia J. Saltzstein, MPH – Sandia National Laboratories
    Co-Chair: Mike Valenzano – NAC International Inc
  • 8:00 AM - 9:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Design Strategies for Transportation Packaging
    Chair: Jens Henschke – Urenco Limited
    Co-Chair: Slade Klein – ORANO
  • 8:00 AM - 9:20 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: Regulations - What's New on the Horizon?
    Chair: Frank Koch – Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI
    Co-Chair: Rick Boyle – U.S. Department of Transportion
  • 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – EDU: Nuclear Packaging Education Opportunities
    Chair: Thomas Bande – Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC)
    Co-Chair: Jim Shuler – Consultant
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM CST
    Companions' Program Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CST
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST
    A Special Joint Presentation by the World Nuclear Association and World Nuclear Transport Institute: Decarbonising the Shipping Industry with Reactors for Propulsion
  • 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST
    Poster Session
  • 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM CST
    Lunch on Own
  • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Denials of Shipments
    Chair: Anne Presta – ORANO
    Co-Chair: Kurtis Hinz – TAM International
  • 1:20 PM - 2:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – REG: Domestic implementation of International Regulations
    Chair: Jennifer Burch – Lawerence Livermore National Lab
    Co-Chair: Thierry Chrupek – ASNR (French competent authority for Transport)
  • 1:20 PM - 2:40 PM CST
    Concurrent Panel Session – ANSI N14.1/ISO 7195/ASTM Specifications
  • 1:20 PM - 2:40 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: New & Modified Packaging Design I
    Chair: Douglas Ammerman – Sandia National Laboratories
    Co-Chair: Juan Licea-Yanez – Savannah River National Laboratory
  • 1:20 PM - 2:40 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Shielding Specific Challenges in Packaging I
    Chair: Peter Vescovi – Orano TN -Americaa
    Co-Chair: Michael Cutajar, PhD CPhys – Nuvia UK
  • 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM CST
    Refreshment Break
  • 3:00 PM - 3:40 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: Shielding Materials and Monitoring of Radioactive Packaging
    Chair: Philip Sewell – Orano TN
    Co-Chair: Baptiste LOUIS – Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire et de Radioprotection (ASNR)
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – OPS: Automation + AI
    Chair: Annette Rolle – BAM
  • 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – DESIGN: New & Modified Packaging Design II
    Chair: Alejandro Palacio – ENSA
    Co-Chair: Andrew Escobar – SRS
  • 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM CST
    Concurrent Technical Session – SEC: Addressing Emerging Challenges
    Chair: Frederic Ledroit – ASNR
    Co-Chair: Chris S. Bajwa – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • 4:30 PM - 5:20 PM CST
    Plenary Session: From Renaissance to Reality: Infrastructure for a Global Nuclear Expansion