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Appendix F: Annotated Bibliography of Selected Recent National Research Council Reports
Appendix F: Annotated Bibliography of Selected Recent National Research Council Reports
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THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION FOR THE DISPOSAL OF TRANSURANIC WASTE (NRC, 1996a) This report addresses the suitability of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
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BUILDING AN EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE PROGRAM: FINAL ASSESSMENT (NRC, 1997) This report summarizes the potential value of basic research to DOE's cleanup mission and advises DOE on the structure and management of its Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP)
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The committee found that OST's decision process is closely linked with the DOE-EM organizational structure, institutional procedures, and program management. The committee framed its major recommendations around the four decision process issues raised in the study charter: appropriateness and effectiveness of OST's decisionmaking process, appropriate technical factors and the adequacy with which they can be measured, role and importance of effective reviews, and program challenges and measures of success.
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ALTERNATIVE HIGH-LEVEL WASTE TREATMENTS AT THE IDAHO NATIONAL ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY (NRC, 1999d) This report assesses the technical alternatives to calcining of high-level waste (HLW)
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE PROGRAM (NRC, 2000c) The report provides an overview of the subsurface contamination problems across the DOE complex and shows by examples from the six largest DOE sites (Hanford Site, Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Nevada Test Site, Oak Ridge Reservation, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, and Savannah River Site)
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EMSP should promote "needs driven" or"mission-directed" basic science supporting research on fundamental processes and phenomena with potential highimpact results; (2) EMSP should promote underlying science and technology parallel to baseline or programmatic approaches to enable HLW management efforts to be flexible in dealing with any unanticipated difficulties; and (3)
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The committee found that there are potential barriers to implementation of all the alternative processing options and recommends that the Savannah River Site proceed with a carefully planned and managed R&D program for three of the four alternative processing options (small tank precipitation using TPB, CST ion exchange, and caustic side solvent extraction) until enough information is available to make a more defensible and transparent downselection decision.
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The committee recommended that DOE develop and implement a plan to sample oil-field brines, petroleum, and solids associated with current hydrocarbon production to assess the magnitude and variability of naturally occurring radioactive material in the vicinity of the WIPP site; eliminate self-imposed waste characterization requirements that lack a legal or safety basis; derive a more realistic gas generation model; consider cost-effective ways to improve the reliability and ease of use of the Transportation Tracking and Communication System; and develop tools for maintaining information needed to respond to a WIPP transportation accident.
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