Roadmaps, how the U.S. Department of Energy Develops a Cleanup Strategy, DOE/EM-0081P.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 199?
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 199?
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :
Author : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1992*
Category : Hazardous waste site remediation
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2009-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309132312
Beginning with the Manhattan Project and continuing through the Cold War, the United States government constructed and operated a massive industrial complex to produce and test nuclear weapons and related technologies. When the Cold War ended, most of this complex was shut down permanently or placed on standby, and the United States government began a costly, long-term effort to clean up the materials, wastes, and environmental contamination resulting from its nuclear materials production. In 1989, Congress created the Office of Environmental Management (EM) within the Department of Energy (DOE) to manage this cleanup effort. Although EM has already made substantial progress, the scope of EM's future cleanup work is enormous. Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges provides advice to support the development of a cleanup technology roadmap for EM. The book identifies existing technology gaps and their priorities, strategic opportunities to leverage needed research and development programs with other organizations, needed core capabilities, and infrastructure at national laboratories and EM sites that should be maintained, all of which are necessary to accomplish EM's mission.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2010-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309108217
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressional appropriations for its technology development programs. It asked the National Research Council of the National Academies to provide technical and strategic advice to support the development and implementation of this roadmap, specifically by undertaking a study that identifies principal science and technology gaps and their priorities for the cleanup program based on previous National Academies reports, updated and extended to reflect current site conditions and EM priorities and input form key external groups, such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, Environmental Protection Agency, and state regulatory agencies. In response, this book provides a high-level synthesis of principal science and technology gaps identified in previous NRC reports in part 1. Part 2 summarizes a workshop meant to bring together the key external groups to discuss current site conditions and science and technology needs.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309685764
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies have conducted activities to develop atomic energy for civilian and defense purposes since the initiation of the World War II Manhattan Project in 1942. These activities took place at large federal land reservations of hundreds of square miles involving industrial-scale operations, but also at many smaller federal and non-federal sites such as uranium mines, materials processing and manufacturing facilities. The nuclear weapons and energy production activities at these facilities produced large quantities of radioactive and hazardous wastes and resulted in widespread groundwater and soil contamination at these sites. DOE initiated a concerted effort to clean up these sites beginning in the 1980s. Many of these sites have been remediated and are in long-term caretaker status, closed or repurposed for other uses. Review of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management: First Report provides background information on the sites currently assigned to the DOE's Office of Environmental Management that are undergoing cleanup; discusses current practices for management and oversight of the cleanups; offers findings and recommendations on such practices and how progress is measured against them; and considers the contracts under which the cleanups proceed and how these have been and can be structured to include incentives for improved cost and schedule performance.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2001-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309075963
The Hanford Site was established by the federal government in 1943 as part of the secret wartime effort to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. The site operated for about four decades and produced roughly two thirds of the 100 metric tons of plutonium in the U.S. inventory. Millions of cubic meters of radioactive and chemically hazardous wastes, the by-product of plutonium production, were stored in tanks and ancillary facilities at the site or disposed or discharged to the subsurface, the atmosphere, or the Columbia River. In the late 1980s, the primary mission of the Hanford Site changed from plutonium production to environmental restoration. The federal government, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), began to invest human and financial resources to stabilize and, where possible, remediate the legacy of environmental contamination created by the defense mission. During the past few years, this financial investment has exceeded $1 billion annually. DOE, which is responsible for cleanup of the entire weapons complex, estimates that the cleanup program at Hanford will last until at least 2046 and will cost U.S. taxpayers on the order of $85 billion. Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup at Hanford provides background information on the Hanford Site and its Integration Project,discusses the System Assessment Capability, an Integration Project-developed risk assessment tool to estimate quantitative effects of contaminant releases, and reviews the technical elements of the scierovides programmatic-level recommendations.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :