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Title: Physical system requirements - Accept waste

Abstract

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) assigned to the Department of Energy (DOE) the responsibility for managing the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste and established the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) for that purpose. The Secretary of Energy, in his November 1989 report to Congress (DOE/RW-0247), announced new initiatives for the conduct of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (CRWM) program. One of these initiatives was to establish improved management structure and procedures. In response, OCRWM performed a management study and the OCRWM Director subsequently issued the Management Systems improvement Strategy (MSIS) on August 10, 1990, calling for a rigorous implementation of systems engineering principles with a special emphasis on functional analysis. The functional analysis approach establishes a framework for integrating the program management efforts with the technical requirements analysis into a single, unified, and consistent program. This approach recognizes that just as the facilities and equipment comprising the physical waste management system must perform certain functions, so must certain programmatic and management functions be performed within the program in order to successfully bring the physical system into being. Thus, a comprehensive functional analysis effort has been undertaken which is intended to: Identify the functionsmore » that must be performed to fulfill the waste disposal mission; Identify the corresponding requirements imposed on each of the functions; and Identify the conceptual architecture that will be used to satisfy the requirements. The principal purpose of this requirements document is to present the results that were obtained from the conduct of a functional analysis effort for the Accept Waste mission.« less

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10180676
Report Number(s):
DOE/RW-0369
ON: DE92041118; NC: NONE
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Aug 1992
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SPENT FUELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACTS; US DOE; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TRANSPORTATION; UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL; FLOWSHEETS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; 052000; WASTE MANAGEMENT

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. Physical system requirements - Accept waste. United States: N. p., 1992. Web.
. Physical system requirements - Accept waste. United States.
. 1992. "Physical system requirements - Accept waste". United States.
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