Attracting more than 2,000 attendees, the 2023 Waste Management Symposia was held February 26-March 2 in Phoenix, Ariz. For many, this year's conference was a return to business as usual, with a packed exhibit hall and well-attended technical sessions, as the upheaval brought about by the pandemic that began three years earlier seemed a thing of the past. Not that those who gathered in Phoenix threw any caution to the unseasonably cold and rainy winds that descended across Arizona this year. The theme of this year's conference was "Planning for the Future: Innovation, Transformation, Sustainability," with a new technical track focusing on advanced nuclear technology. Informally, the meeting's theme could well have been dedicated to planning for the future workforce, with many attendees and panel sessions discussing the evergrowing problem of attracting new workers to the fields of waste management and environmental remediation. Most notably, the Department of Energy, in collaboration with WM Symposia, held a job fair outside the exhibit hall over two days. The fair provided a chance for job seekers to meet face-to-face with recruiters to learn more about available positions in a number of fields related to radioactive materials management, remediation, and engineering.
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