The Office of Groundwater & Soil Remediation Fiscal Year 2011 Research & Development Program

Conference · Wed Mar 02 04:00:00 EST 2011

OSTI ID:1038651

Gerdes, Kurt D; Chamberlain, Skip; Aylward, R S; Cercy, Mike; Seitz, Roger; Ramirez, Rosa; Skubal, Karen L; Marble, Justin; Wellman, Dawn M; Bunn, Amoret L; Liang, Liyuan; Pierce, Eric M

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Groundwater and Soil Remediation supports technology development and technical assistance for the remediation of environments contaminated by legacy nuclear waste. The core of the program is centered on delivering proactive, responsive expertise and technologies with highly-leveraged, carefully selected investments that maximum impact on life-cycle cleanup costs and risks across the DOE complex. The program currently focuses on four main priorities: improved sampling and characterization strategies, advanced predictive capabilities, enhanced remediation methods, and improved long-term performance evaluation and monitoring. In FY 2010, the program developed a detailed research and development (R and D) plan in support of a larger initiative to integrate R and D efforts across EM. This paper provides an overview of the priority action areas and the program's near-term technical direction.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1038651
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-77120; EY4049110
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
EVALUATION
Groundwater
LIFE CYCLE
MONITORING
PERFORMANCE
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
SAMPLING
SOILS
Soil Remediation
WASTE MANAGEMENT
legacy