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Title: End effectors and attachments for buried waste excavation equipment

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10145850· OSTI ID:10145850

The Buried Waste Integrated Demonstration (BWID) supports the applied research, development, demonstration, and evaluation of a suite of advanced technologies that form a comprehensive remediation system for the effective and efficient remediation of buried waste. Their efforts are identified and coordinated in support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (ER&WM) Department`s needs and objectives. The present focus of BWID is to support retrieval and ex-situ treatment configuration options. Future activities will explore and support containment, and stabilization efforts in addition to the retrieval/ex situ treatment options. This report presents a literature search on the state-of-the-art in end effectors and attachments in support of excavator of buried transuranic waste. Included in the report are excavator platforms and a discussion of the various attachments. Also included is it list of vendors and specifications.

Research Organization:
EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-76ID01570
OSTI ID:
10145850
Report Number(s):
EGG-WTD-10931; ON: DE94010777; TRN: 94:004997
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Sep 1993
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English