Again, we truly “thank you” for your participation and support of the ICEM’09/DECOM Conference and we will be looking for you in 2010 in Japan and in 2011 in Europe!

Sincerely,

ICEM'09/DECOM'09 Committee

We would also like to thank our Conference Sponsors….

U.S. Societies

The Nuclear Engineering Division and the Environmental Engineering Division of the ASME are the primary organizing societies of the ICEM conference. Since its inception in 1987, the original as well as current objective has been to conduct international conferences on key environmental management topics in locations convenient to large numbers of technical experts from emerging environmental programs. The ASME is committed to continue to provide this global conference wherever the greatest need and interest are shown.

ICEM’09 is also organized in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE), The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) along with several other major international technical societies and governmental organizations. Each agency has had significant involvement with the ICEM series. The US DOE is responsible for managing the wastes and cleaning the sites from the past U.S. government nuclear operations, thus the US DOE staff has viewed this conference series as an opportunity to identify new technical solutions and to provide information on the results of their programs to the international community. Federal regulatory participants from both the US EPA and US NRC have also been active in program development and participation.

European Societies

The ICEM conferences have always been conducted jointly with a major local technical society and other co-societies in the host country.  For ICEM’09, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Nuclear Institute will again help in the organization as they did at ICEM03 and ICEM’05. In addition, the NDA will continue supporting the ICEM conferences by participating as a major UK cooperating agency.

Cooperating International Agencies

Since the beginning, the ICEM meetings have been held in cooperation with major international organizations responsible for programs and research in radioactive waste management and environmental remediation fields. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been assisting this conference in several ways. Their support has included assistance in the technical program preparation, presentation of technical papers and other agency information, promotion of the conference to their member states and financial assistance, and technical assistance.