Environmental remediation is the focus of conference in Belgium

The Eighth International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Management (ICEM '01) will be a global forum for the international exchange of information on technologies, operations, management approaches, economics and public policies in the critical areas of radioactive waste management and environmental remediation.

The Nuclear Engineering Division and the Environmental Engineering Division of ASME are the primary sponsors of the meeting, which will run from Sept. 30-Oct. 4 at the Oud Sint-Jan Hospital Conference Center in Bruges, Belgium.

ICEM '01 is also organized in cooperation with the Technological Institute of the Royal Flemish Society of Engineers, the Belgian Nuclear Society, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ICEM '01 will provide attendees with plenty of opportunities to meet and speak with specialists from countries with mature environmental management programs and those from countries with emerging programs.

The conference's opening session, at the nearby Novotel Hotel, will feature six plenary speakers, including Prince Laurent of Belgium, who is the president of Belgium's Royal Institute for Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Promotion of Clean Technology; Carl J. Paperiello, deputy executive director for Materials, Research and State Programs at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Arnold Bonne, director of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology at Austria's International Atomic Energy Agency; Valentin B. Ivanov, vice minister of Russia's Ministry for Atomic Energy; David Huizenga, deputy assistant secretary for Integration and Disposition, Environmental Management, at the U.S. Department of Energy; and Olivier Deleuze, Belgium's secretary of state for Energy and Sustainable Development.

The meeting's technical program will comprise 68 sessions within eight parallel program tracks, covering the areas of low/intermediate-level waste management, high-level waste and spent fuel management, waste management in the Commonwealth of Independent States (the former U.S.S.R.), environmental remediation, decontamination and decommission, and major institutional issues in environmental management.

An industrial exhibition will be held in conjunction with the technical program, covering technologies, equipment, technical and management services in the fields of radioactive waste management, decontamination and decommissioning, and environmental remediation.

Registration for ICEM '01 is $790 (U.S.) for members of ASME and cooperating societies, $840 for nonmembers. One-day registration is $385. Tickets for the conference banquet on Wednesday, Oct. 3, are $22 apiece.

For more information, visit www.icemconf.com; or contact John Bendo, ASME Engineering Programs, (212) 591-7055, e-mail: bendoj@asme.org.

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