STEM Experience, October 11,2025



Punam Thakur, WIPP Laboratories
"WIPP Laboratories and their Role in Demonstrating DOE's Compliance with Regulatory Standards"
October 27, 2022

Pr. Geoff Smith (NMSU)
“Project Review of WIPP's Low Background Radiation Experiments (LBRE). A non-linear route towards identifying a biological threshold.”
May 24, 2022

Steve Nesbit, ANS President 2021-2022
"Used Fuel and High-Level Waste Management –Past, Present and Future"
April 28, 2022
Norbert T. Rempe, WIPP-Retired
”A heterodox perspective on Teller, Plowshare, Gnome & Radiation”
January 28, 2022

Alan B. Carr, LANL
"Beyond the Moon: The Story of the Rover Program, 1955 to 1973"
December 16, 2021

Norbert T. Rempe, WIPP-Retired
"We Are Not Running Out Of Uranium (Or Any Other Mineral Resources)"
March 25, 2021

Dr. James L. Conca, Senior Scientist for UFA Ventures, Inc.
"A SCIENTIFICALLY-ACHIEVABLE GREEN NEW DEAL"
February 25, 2021

Alan B. Carr, Los Alamos National Laboratory
“The Project Y Spies: An Historical Perspective on a Perennial Threat”
January 28, 2021.

Ed Mayer, Holtec International
Hi-Store CISF

Alan B. Carr, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Project Trinity: The Myth, the legend, the Legacy

Rico Vallejo, Natalia Dominguez, Ila Pillalamarri
CEMRC - DOE Lie Down and Be Counted (LDBC) Project by In-Vivo Lung and Whole Body Counting System - Basics

Dr. Lewis Land, Karst hydrogeologist, National Cave and Karst Research Institute
Evaluation of groundwater residence time in a high mountain aquifer system, southern Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico: Insights gained from use of multiple environmental tracers

Kristopher L. Kuhlman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM
Brine Availability Test in Salt (BATS) at WIPP

Norbert Rempe
Demythologizing Chernobyl and Other Radioactive Fairy Tales

Dr. Akira Kirishima Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Japan
Leaching Behavior of Fukushima NPP Nuclear Fuel Debris

Joseph Turko (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Detector Response Simulations of Hydrocarbon Neutron Scintillators Using GEANT4

Dr. Thomas McLaughlin (Los alamos National laboratory, ret.)
Criticality Accidents: History and Relevance to WIPP

Daniel Ellis (New Mexico State University)
Adsorption of N-Nitrosodimethylamine onto Activated Carbons from Pecan Shells and Soft Wood Barks

Kathryn Roberts and Peter Gram (TerranearPMC)
The Salt Basin Deep Borehole Research Project
Dr. Punam Thakur (Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center)
The Magnitude and Relevance of the February 2014 Radiation Release from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, USA
