Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology (1999) / Chapter Skim
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D Crosscutting Programs
D Crosscutting Programs
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ROBOTICS CROSSCUTTING PROGRAM The Robotics Crosscutting Program is a national program, funding work by several PIs done at multiple DOE sites to support all Focus Areas. The program is based at the DOE Albuquerque Operations Office.
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The field-based OST program manager reports to his or her local line managers as well as to headquarters OST managers. EFFICIENT SEPARATIONS AND PROCESSING CROSSCUTTING PROGRAM The ESP Crosscutting Program is based at the DOE Oak Ridge Operations Office.
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The program has self-generated strategic goals. Important problem areas include · tritium separation, needed by all STCGs; · tank flowsheet uncertainties; · transuranic separation, to reap the benefits of not sending waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WTPP-bound TRU waste costs are estimated at approximately $30,000 per cubic foot, while on-site lowleve!
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. Review of Proposals A review and ranking of the responses to solicitations, which are PT-proposed new work tasks, by the following groups of people: ESP Crosscutting Program managers, Technical Review Teams of experts composed of academics and DOE contractor retirees, and Focus Area representatives.
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CHARACTERIZATION, MONITORING, AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY CROSSCUTTING PROGRAM Dr. Caroline Purdy, the HQ lead program manager of the CMST Crosscutting Program for 19911997, and John Jones, the recent field lead at the Nevada Operations Office, described the program during a committee meeting on June 6, 1997.
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The program policy factors are (Purdy, 1997) program drivers, safety and health risk reduction, regulatory and stakeholder acceptability, technology commercialization or implementation, · breadth of application, projected future technology development needs, and balance between risk and reward, long term verses short term.
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Other major technology deficiency areas in high demand from many sites are long-term monitoring of subsurface contaminants and barrier walls; subsurface and D&D characterizations; in-tank sensors and sampling devices; process control monitors for high-level waste (HEW) treatment; mixed waste stream characterization to assist in a decision to treat versus dispose (presumably if one can show cheaply that one meets land disposal restrictions (LDRs)
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Outside OST, the program has interacted with (Purdy, 1997) the Office of Energy Research, in its Small Business Innovation Research grant program; Disney Corporation, through a cooperative agreement not in the IP or UP; · other federal agencies to develop cone penetrometer work via an interagency activity; and · the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
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