Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309062810
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
A Review of Decontamination and Decommissioning Technology Development Programs at the Department of Energy
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309062810
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063477
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session.
Research Opportunities for Deactivating and Decommissioning Department of Energy Facilities
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309183146
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
When the Cold War abruptly ended, DOE halted most nuclear materials production. In 1995, Congress chartered DOE's Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) to bring the nation's scientific infrastructure to bear on EM's most difficult, long-term cleanup challenges. The EMSP provides grants to investigators in industry, national laboratories, and universities to undertake research that may help address these cleanup challenges. On several occasions the EMSP has asked the National Academies for advice on developing its research agenda. This report resulted from a 15-month study by an Academies committee on long-term research needs for deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) at DOE sites.
Review of the Department of Energy's Deployment of DOE-funded Environmental Cleanup Technologies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Independent Assessment of Science and Technology for the Department of Energy's Defense Environmental Cleanup Program
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309487781
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 contained a request for a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine review and assessment of science and technology development efforts within the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM). This technical report is the result of the review and presents findings and recommendations.
Peer Review in Environmental Technology Development Programs
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063388
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Environmental Management Technology-Development Program at the Department of Energy
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309054818
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This book provides the National Academy of Sciences' 1995 review of the technology development program for the remediation of the Department of Energy's weapons complex facilities. It makes scientific, technical, and programmatic recommendations to strengthen technology development within DOE and ensure that it meet its goals of cost effectiveness, safety, and decreased risk. The recommendations address DOE's five focus areas: landfill stabilization; contaminant plume containment and remediation; facility transitioning, decommissioning, and final disposition; mixed waste characterization treatment; and high-level waste in tanks. The book also addresses technologies in areas that cross cut the above focus area programs, namely characterization monitoring and sensor technologies, efficient separations and processing, robotics, and waste disposal.
Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309071860
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
It is now becoming clear that relatively few U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) waste sites will be cleaned up to the point where they can be released for unrestricted use. "Long-term stewardship" (activities to protect human health and the environment from hazards that may remain at its sites after cessation of remediation) will be required for over 100 of the 144 waste sites under DOE control (U.S. Department of Energy, 1999). After stabilizing wastes that remain on site and containing them as well as is feasible, DOE intends to rely on stewardship for as long as hazards persistâ€"in many cases, indefinitely. Physical containment barriers, the management systems upon which their long-term reliability depends, and institutional controls intended to prevent exposure of people and the environment to the remaining site hazards, will have to be maintained at some DOE sites for an indefinite period of time. The Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes finds that much regarding DOE's intended reliance on long-term stewardship is at this point problematic. The details of long-term stewardship planning are yet to be specified, the adequacy of funding is not assured, and there is no convincing evidence that institutional controls and other stewardship measures are reliable over the long term. Scientific understanding of the factors that govern the long-term behavior of residual contaminants in the environment is not adequate. Yet, the likelihood that institutional management measures will fail at some point is relatively high, underscoring the need to assure that decisions made in the near term are based on the best available science. Improving institutional capabilities can be expected to be every bit as difficult as improving scientific and technical ones, but without improved understanding of why and how institutions succeed and fail, the follow-through necessary to assure that long-term stewardship remains effective cannot reliably be counted on to occur. Long-Term Institutional Management of U.S. Department of Energy Legacy Waste Sites examines the capabilities and limitations of the scientific, technical, and human and institutional systems that compose the measures that DOE expects to put into place at potentially hazardous, residually contaminated sites.
Science and Technology for DOE Site Cleanup
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309108217
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressional appropriations for its technology development programs. It asked the National Research Council of the National Academies to provide technical and strategic advice to support the development and implementation of this roadmap, specifically by undertaking a study that identifies principal science and technology gaps and their priorities for the cleanup program based on previous National Academies reports, updated and extended to reflect current site conditions and EM priorities and input form key external groups, such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Environmental Protection Agency, and state regulatory agencies. In response, this book provides a high-level synthesis of principal science and technology gaps identified in previous NRC reports in part 1. Part 2 summarizes a workshop meant to bring together the key external groups to discuss current site conditions and science and technology needs.
The Department of Energy's FY 1997 Budget Request for Environment, Safety and Health, Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (non-defense) and Nuclear Energy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description