Assuring data quality for use in waste management system trade-off studies
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) has responsibility for constructing and operating facilities to accept and dispose of high-level nuclear waste generated by commercial and defense reactors. The Office of Systems Integration and Regulation within OCRWM has sponsored the development of a suite of computer models to be used in analyzing various possible alternatives for the configuration and operation of the federal high-level radioactive waste management system. This suite of models and their associated databases is referred to as the Systems Integration Modeling System (SIMS). As part of SIMS, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories has developed the Systems Engineering Cost Analysis Capability (SECAC), which, working in conjunction with one or more logistics models, provides cost estimates at various levels of detail for the complete Federal Waste Management System (FWMS). The SECAC has been designed as a flexible tool for use in estimating the cost of alternative operating modes, different waste acceptance priorities and alternative designs that may be proposed for the FWMS components. A relatively large amount of data must be compiled and managed to fully represent these possible alternative FWMS configurations and operating strategies. A systems engineering approach has been implemented to ensure the integrity of this large cost data library throughout the evolution of the capability. 4 refs.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 5797682
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-SA-17742; CONF-900406-81; ON: DE91011240
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1. international topical meeting on high-level radioactive waste management, Las Vegas, NV (USA), 8-12 Apr 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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