A history of the WM Symposia
This document contains a narrative history of the Waste Management Symposia in the United States. In 1973, a group of engineers active in radioactive waste management met at the Hanford Engineering Works in Richland, Washington, with Frank Pittman, then Director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. They discussed recent news reports that some of the waste storage tanks containing high-level radioactive wastes were leaking at the Hanford site. One of the major concerns of the news media was that the leaking had been kept secret. As a result of these discussions, it was decided that a credible forum was needed to disseminate sound technical information and for the technical community to interact closely with the public and with the news media. The first Waste Management Symposium was subsequently organized and held in Tucson, Arizona in 1994. This paper goes on to describe the continuation of these annual symposia until the present.
- OSTI ID:
- 426119
- Journal Information:
- Radwaste Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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