Disposal of Weapon Plutonium

SESSION 1: SAFE DISPOSAL OF WEAPONS PLUTONIUM.- 1. Weapons Plutonium Management: The Present Situation, the Methods and the Prospects.- 2. Retrievability and Safeguards Concerns Regarding Plutonium in Geological Repositories.- 3. Multibarriers: Their Efficacy Against Intentional Intrusion into a Geological Repository to Retrieve Disposed Plutonium.- 4. Prospects for Using Plutonium as a Fuel in Russia.- 5. Plutonium Handling and Vitrification: Main Process Steps and their Cost Evaluation.- SESSION 2: PRODUCT FORMS.- 6. Dissolution of Materials Containing Metal Plutonium and Oxidized Forms of Plutonium.- 7. Crystalline Ceramics: Waste Forms for the Disposal of Weapons Plutonium.- 8. The Crystalline Host-Phases for Immobilization of Weapons Plutonium and Waste Actinides.- 9. On the Long-Term Storage of Weapons Plutonium in Form of Criticality-Free Ceramics Containing Lithium.- 10. Incorporation of Pu and other Actinides in Borosilicate Glass and in Waste Ceramics.- 11. Feasibility of Rock-Like Fuel and Glass Waste Form for Disposal of Weapons Plutonium.- 12. Possible Ways of the Weapon Plutonium Processing to Produce the Steady Glass Materials Suitable for Further Safe Disposal.- 13. Management of Operational Waste from MOX Fuel Plants.- SESSION 3: VITRIFICATION TECHNOLOGY.- 14. SRS Vitrification Studies in Support of the U.S. Program for Disposition of Excess Plutonium.- 15. On the Feasibility of Vitrifying High-Level Liquid Waste Containing High Amounts of Plutonium.- 16. Vitrification of Weapons Plutonium: A Hypothetic Option or a Real Way to Solve the Problem?.- 17. Vitrification of Plutonium for Disposal.- 18. French Appraisal of the Vitrification Option. Weapons Plutonium - or how to get rid of it!.- 19. Safety Aspects with Regard to Plutonium Vitrification Techniques.- SESSION 4: DISPOSAL IN DEEP BOREHOLES.- 20. Disposition of Radionuclides in Deep Geological Formations either in Containers or Vitrified Form.- 21. Disposition of Plutonium in Deep Boreholes.-

Carl E. Walter is a Managing Director of JP Morgan and Chief Operating Officer of its China businesses. Prior to joining JP Morgan in 2001, Mr. Walter was a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee of China International Capital Corporation. He was Chief Representative in Beijing for Credit Suisse First Boston from 1993-8. During his decade in China, Mr. Walter has participated in a number of pathbreaking international and domestic share listings and debt issues for Chinese companies, banks and the Ministry of Finance. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and a graduate certificate from Beijing University.