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SUBCOMMITTEE ON DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING
SUBCOMMITTEE ON DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING
Pages 73-80
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DOE nuclear facilities no longer in use are being deactivated and need to be decontaminated, and DOE believes many must be decommissioned. As stated in Estimating the Cold War Mortgage: The Baseline Environmental Management Report (BEAR)
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Establishing quantification criteria for the necessary and sufficient cleanup of DOE sites is certainly a primary factor driving D&D technology development. Whether DOE can develop a system of ciitena to yield specific sitecleanup objectives remains to be determined, but DOE should attempt to do so.
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The process should start with a needs assessment for He D&D Focus Area and should iden~ available technologies, technology gaps, and criteria for establishing pnondes. Conclusion: The D&D Focus Area Strategic Plan, with its emphasis on relatively mature technologies and large~cale demonstrations, is too narrowly focused Recommendation: The D&D Focus Area should revise its strategic plan to provide a basis for a comprehensive D&D technology~evelopment program This plan should speck a process that will yield a systematic assessment of D&D needs and available technologies, the identification of technology gaps, the development of criteria for establishing pnorities, and a justification for demonstration projects that will be fended and executed The product of this effort should be a balanced program of basic and applied research exploratory and advanced development, engineering design, demonstration, and implementation.
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Conclusion: DOE should address planning in teens of a process and should not have to contract for the draping of the strategic planning doa~nent Id order for the plans to succeed, DOE decision makers themselves (and not their support contractors) should draft Me plans.
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Areas of emphasis should include pnonties, discussion and integration of performance cnteria, assessment of the scope of work vow - is the over focus areas, and related technology development for D&D within DOE. Conclusion: The D&D Focus Area Management and implementation plans fail to include adequate recognition of and coordination with appropriate acidities underway in other parts of DOE and win independent technology development in the private sector and abroad.
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Current technology~evelopment programs Hat do not have a return on invesunent for the development dollars being spent should be te~Tninatel For the scheduled large~cale demonstrations, specific evaluation and analysis procedures should be developed before further funding is committed. Conclusion: Systemic DOE~de issues, such as the lack of an "endorse" standard or policy, the ongoing debate between a "national" versus a more regio~based management striated, or the impacts Tom hid prescnphve re~abons or DOE orders, place siBcant burdens on the successful achievement of technology development by the Dam Focus Area While such systemic problems are beyond the immediate control of the focus area, the draft documents offer little recognition of these significant concerns and do not propose alternative strategies to compensate for these issues in the development of D&D technologies.
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. 1995a Estimating the Cold War Mortgage: The 1995 Baseline Environments Management Report, Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Technology Development, DOE/EM~232, vols.
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1995b. Decon~runabon and Decommissioning Focus Area: Technology SuIrunaw, Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management Technology Development, DOE/EM~253.
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