Environmental Management Technology-Development Program at the Department of Energy

1995 Review

• Author(s): National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Committee on Environmental Management Technologies,
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Pages: 146
• ISBN_10: 0309054818
  ISBN_13: 9780309054812
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy , Science / Earth Sciences / General , Nature / Natural Resources ,

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This book provides the National Academy of Sciences' 1995 review of the technology development program for the remediation of the Department of Energy's weapons complex facilities. It makes scientific, technical, and programmatic recommendations to strengthen technology development within DOE and ensure that it meet its goals of cost effectiveness, safety, and decreased risk. The recommendations address DOE's five focus areas: landfill stabilization; contaminant plume containment and remediation; facility transitioning, decommissioning, and final disposition; mixed waste characterization treatment; and high-level waste in tanks. The book also addresses technologies in areas that cross cut the above focus area programs, namely characterization monitoring and sensor technologies, efficient separations and processing, robotics, and waste disposal.