10. 



companies, and government scientific agencies. The participants 

 are listed in Appendix E. 



During the afternoon and evening of September 10th, the con- 

 ferees heard and discussed eleven informal talks which presented 

 in considerable detail the various technological, economic, and the- 

 oretical problems of waste disposal. During and after the Geneva 

 Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (July 1955) a 

 great deal of heretofore classified information was released: the 

 Princeton Conference benefited from the unexpected availability of 

 data on chemical processing and nature of waste solutions pertinent 

 to the conference topic. After the conclusion of the eleventh talk on 

 the morning of September 11th, a lengthy period of general discus- 

 sion and review followed. Two committees were then appointed to 

 examine carefully the waste problem from two points of view; see 

 Appendix B, page 75. The committees worked independently through 

 the balance of the morning, the afternoon and evening of September 

 11th. The conference reconvened on September 12th and heard sum- 

 mary reports from the Chairman of each committee. (See Appendix 

 B, pages 76-81.) The Committee reports are given in Appendices C 

 and D. This completed the work of the conference and it was ad- 

 journed at 11:30 a.m. 



The conference deliberations were recorded by the stenotypist, 

 Miss Jean Burleigh, and by a tape recorder provided by the Hopkins 

 groups and operated by Mr. A. B. Joseph. The edited condensation 

 is presented in Appendix B. The minutes of the Committee meetings 

 were prepared by volunteers and are given in Appendices C and D. 



The Steering Committee met on September 12th to consider the 

 next steps to take in the light of the results of the conference. It was 

 decided that it was not necessary to hold a second conference because 

 the first had succeeded in both generating and evaluating ideas as 

 well as could be expected within the limitations of existing knowledge 

 -- significant improvements on the ideas expressed could be made 

 only by direct investigation, not by additional exchanges of opinions. 

 Until the deliberations of the Conference were available, the Commit- 

 tee could do little to document the suggestions or prepare a report: 

 the preparation of proceedings from the stenotype record was given 

 first priority, and the manner in which the talks were to be edited, 

 verified by the speakers, and distributed to the Committee was out- 

 lined. 



