Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 1428933832
Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Radioactive waste sites
ISBN :
Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781984334664
GAO-05-764 Nuclear Waste: Better Performance Reporting Needed to Assess DOE's Ability to Achieve the Goals of the Accelerated Cleanup Program
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2005-02-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 030909299X
The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (EM) directs the massive cleanup of more than 100 sites that were involved in the production of nuclear weapons materials during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. This report offers suggestions for more effectively characterizing and treating the orphan and special-case wastes that are part of EM's accelerated cleanup program. It identifies technical opportunities for EM to improve the program that will save time and money without compromising health and safety. The opportunities identified include: making more effective use of existing facilities and capabilities for waste characterization, treatment, or disposal; eliminating self-imposed requirements that have no clear technical or safety basis; and investing in new technologies to improve existing treatment and characterization capabilities. For example, the report suggests that EM work with DOE classification officers to declassify, to the extent possible, classified materials declared as wastes. The report also suggests a new approach for treating the wastes that EM will leave in place after cleanup.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Hazardous waste site remediation
ISBN :
Author : Gene Aloise
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437983065
The Dept. of Energy¿s Office of Environ. Mgmt. (EM) is responsible for one of the world¿s largest cleanup programs: treatment and disposal of radioactive and hazardous waste created as a by-product of nuclear weapons production and energy research at sites across the country, such as EM¿s Hanford Site in Wash. State and the Savannah River Site in S. Carolina. Computer models (CM) -- which represent physical and bio-geochemical processes as math formulas -- are one tool EM uses in the cleanups. This report: (1) describes how EM uses CM in cleanup decisions; (2) evaluates how EM ensures the quality of its CM; and (3) assesses EM¿s overall strategy for managing its CM. This is a print on demand report.
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 142897668X
Author : United States. Government Accountability Office
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Accrual basis accounting
ISBN : 9781422311691
Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781976196683
The Department of Energy (DOE) spends billions of dollars annually to clean up nuclear wastes at sites that produced nuclear weapons. Cleanup projects decontaminate and demolish buildings, remove and dispose of contaminated soil, treat contaminated groundwater, and stabilize and dispose of solid and liquid radioactive wastes. Ten of these projects meet or nearly meet DOE's definition of major: costs exceeding $1 billion in the near term-usually a 5-year window of the project's total estimated life cycle. GAO was asked to determine the (1) extent to which the cost and schedule for DOE's major cleanup projects have changed and key reasons for changes, and (2) factors that may hinder DOE's ability to effectively manage these projects. GAO met with project directors and reviewed project documents for 10 major cleanup projects: 9 above the near-term $1 billion threshold, and 1 estimated to cost between $900 million and $1 billion over the near term. GAO is making a number of recommendations, such as expanding the content of performance reports provided to DOE senior managers and information provided to Congress to
Author : Gene Aloise
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437917399
The Dept. of Energy (DoE) spends billions of dollars annually to clean up nuclear waste at sites that produced nuclear weapons from the 1940s through the end of the Cold War. This waste can threaten public health and the environment. Cleanup projects decontaminate and demolish buildings, remove and dispose of contaminated soil, treat contaminated groundwater, and stabilize and dispose of solid and liquid radioactive wastes, among other things. DoE was required to report on the status of the environmental mgmt. initiatives it has undertaken to more rapidly reduce the environmental risks and challenges resulting from the legacy of the Cold War. This report addresses the extent to which that report discusses the five elements called for under the Act.
