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PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRINCETON CONFERENCE 

 ON THE DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE PRODUCTS 



SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 



September 10, 1955 



The Conference on Disposal of Radioactive Waste Products 

 convened in the Commons Room of the Graduate College, Princeton 

 University, at 2 o'clock. 



DR. RICHARD J. RUSSELL: On behalf of the Division of Earth 

 Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research 

 Council, I am happy to -welcome you to this Conference and to see 

 this meeting so well attended. We have been working with people at 

 Johns Hopkins and with people from the A.E.C. since last November 

 to prepare for this conference and plan for another one. We have 

 called together a heterogeneous group of people from many different 

 fields and disciplines with a cumulative total of a tremendous amount 

 of experience . 



The main objective in this Conference, as far as the Division of 

 Earth Sciences is concerned, is to generate and list ideas for the 

 underground disposal of high level wastes. That is our mission. 



The ground rules have changed from time to time on the problem, 

 and it has been very difficult for those associated with it to keep up 

 with developments in the chemical processing which determine the 

 nature of the materials we have to deal with. We have had the feeling 

 several times that the problem has shifted completely from one area 

 over to another; -we believe that in this conference you will get a hint 

 of the varied nature of the problems before us. 



The preparation of this conference and the organization of the 

 report which we will submit under the contract with the A.E.C. , is 

 under the direction of Harry Hess, who has served as Chairman of 

 the Steering Committee, and who -will preside at these meetings. 



. . . Dr. H. H. Hess assumed the Chair . . . 



CHAIRMAN HESS: I would like to welcome you here on behalf of 

 Princeton University. I am very happy, as Chairman of the Steering 



