Efficient Separations and Processing Integrated Program
- USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
The Efficient Separations and Processing Integrated Program (ESP-IP) was created in 1991 to support the Department of Energy`s (DOE) weapons complex cleanup effort. The Office within DOE responsible for the cleanup is the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management (EM). The goal of EM is to minimize risks to human health and the environment, and bring DOE sites in regulatory compliance by the year 2019. EM established the Office of Technology Development (OTD) to develop new technologies that are safer, faster, more effective and less expensive than current methods. In an effort to focus resources and address opportunities, OTD has developed Integrated Programs (IPs) to support applied research activities in key application areas required in each stage of the remediation process (e.g. characterization, treatment, disposal). The mission of the ESP-IP is to identify, develop, and coordinate technologies for economical separation of toxic components from wastes that have accumulated at DOE sites since the mid-1940s. These wastes and environmental problems, located at more than 100 contaminated installations in 36 states and territories, are the result of half a century of nuclear processing activities by DOE and its predecessor organizations. These wastes include: high-level radioactive wastes stored in underground tanks, transuranic wastes, low-level radioactive wastes and mixed wastes buried in landfills, contaminated soils, and contaminated groundwater.
- OSTI ID:
- 124536
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940499--; ISBN 1-56590-014-6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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