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... The summary is organized according to the three points of the study charge shown above. CHARGE 1: ASSESS THE TECHNICAL MERIT OF THE S&T WORK TO BE CARRIED OUT UNDER THE PROGRAM, INCLUDING ITS LIKELY CONTRIBUTION TO ADVANCING THE STATE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE The committee reviewed the S&T projects under way or planned in the seven technical elements of the S&T program (inventory, vadose zone, groundwater, Columbia River, monitoring, remediation, and risk)
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... The committee also finds that given the technical and organizational complexity of the task, the Integration Project has made a good start in creating an S&T roadmap, defining and initiating an S&T program, and fulfilling the promise of its mission. The Integration Project appears to have rapidly developed an S&T portfolio that blends well with There were two clear exceptions to this statement: Environmental Management Science Program projects, and some of the projects under the Vadose Zone Technical Element, particularly the vadose zone transport field studies, were well documented.
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... · Evaluation of the probabilities and consequences of extreme events on Hanford Site contaminants particularly the effects of catastrophic glacial flooding, which has inundated the site repeatedly during the last 100,000 years and as recently as 15,000 years ago (Chapter 9 - as well as the sensitivity of long-term impacts estimated by the System Assessment Capability to the assumed 1,000-year time scale for peak risk. The committee also recommends some reprioritization of S&T work to improve its timeliness and relevance to Hanford Site cleanup .
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... Moreover, the lack of stable funding is impeding the Integration Project's ability to plan and execute its work in fact, current SOT work schedules already have been delayed by reductions from the planned budget baseline developed in 1998. On the other hand, S&T is being carried out by other organizations at Hanford and DOE Headquarters, so the total investment in S&T is much greater than indicated by the Integration Project's S&T budget.
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... The committee judges that many of the results of S&T work at Hanford are potentially applicable to other DOE sites and, more generally, to other contaminated sites in arid regions. The development of the Integration Project S&T roadmap involved experts from national laboratories and other DOE sites.
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