The Federal Advisory Committee to Develop Onsite Innovative Technologies` (DOIT Committee) Mixed Waste Working Group: New technologies for the treatment of mixed hazardous and radioactive wastes
- California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento, CA (United States)
Issues associated with the storage, treatment and disposal of mixed radioactive and hazardous wastes (mixed wastes) are numerous and challenging from both a technical and social standpoint. Currently, treatment capability and capacity are limited for the majority of the wastes in storage across the Department of Energy (DOE) Complex and for many commercial generators. In addition to the technical and regulatory challenges presented when treating mixed wastes, stakeholders demand a higher level of proof of the safety and effectiveness of new technologies. Often, technology has been developed without regard to the stakeholder concerns until implementation is attempted. A new approach to stakeholder involvement in technology development and implementation was, and continues to be, tested by the Federal Advisory Committee to Develop On-site Innovative Technology (DOIT). The Mixed Waste Working Group (MWWG) of the DOIT Committee brought together stakeholders from around the nation to examine new technologies that, if given the change to be tested and evaluated, offered the prospect for better, safer, cheaper, faster solutions to the mixed waste problem.
- OSTI ID:
- 367576
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-951124-; TRN: IM9640%%322
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International environmental management and technology conference and exhibition, Long Beach, CA (United States), 7-9 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Eleventh annual environmental management and technology conference/West -- HazMat/West `95: Technical papers; PB: 597 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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