A Database for Reviewing and Selecting Radioactive Waste Treatment Technologies and Vendors
Several attempts have been made in past years to collate and present waste management technologies and solutions to waste generators. These efforts have been manifested as reports, buyers' guides, and databases. While this information is helpful at the time it is assembled, the principal weakness is maintaining the timeliness and accuracy of the information over time. In many cases, updates have to be published or developed as soon as the product is disseminated. The recently developed National Low-Level Waste Management Program's Technologies Database is a vendor-updated Internet based database designed to overcome this problem. The National Low-Level Waste Management Program's Technologies Database contains information about waste types, treatment technologies, and vendor information. Information is presented about waste types, typical treatments, and the vendors who provide those treatment methods. The vendors who provide services update their own contact information, their treatment processes, and the types of wastes for which their treatment process is applicable. This information is queriable by a generator of low-level or mixed low-level radioactive waste who is seeking information on waste treatment methods and the vendors who provide them. Timeliness of the information in the database is assured using time clocks and automated messaging to remind featured vendors to keep their information current. Failure to keep the entries current results in a vendor being warned and then ultimately dropped from the database. This assures that the user is dealing with the most current information available and the vendors who are active in reaching and serving their market.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-94ID13223
- OSTI ID:
- 10484
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/CON-99-00450; TRN: US0103568
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Low-Level Waste Conference and Exhibit '99, McAfee, NJ (US), 07/11/1999--07/14/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1 Jul 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
DECISION MAKING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MARKETERS
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
MIXTURES
TECHNOLOGY DATABASE
VENDOR-UPDATED
WASTE TYPES
TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES
NATIONAL LOW-LEVEL WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM