Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap Gaps and Bridges (2009) / Chapter Skim
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4 Leveraging R&D for Environmental Management
4 Leveraging R&D for Environmental Management
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. In the Roadmap, strategic initiatives are those that address the technological risks and uncertainties identified by EM. The strategic opportunities for leveraging discussed in this chapter would help EM bring R&D from other organizations to bear on the technology gaps identified by the committee in Chapter 2.
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. When identifying leveraging opportunities the committee focused its information gathering on programs at potentially relevant federal agencies.
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Such leveraging partnerships benefited the partners in different ways. In this example, the partnerships provided LANL with a mechanism for stabilizing its R&D funding, a test bed for some of its analytical capabilities, and the stimulation of applying its research capabilities to problem areas outside the nuclear complex.
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that partnered with universities and private companies. Once selected for funding, the principal investigators were required to meet periodically with staff from the EM focus areas to listen to current problems associated with their technical area (e.g., tank waste chemistry, groundwater remediation, decontamination and decommissioning)
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. LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EM TO ADDRESS TECHNOLOGY GAPS At its April 2008 meeting, the committee received input from organizations with which EM has worked or potentially could collaborate in addressing the technology gaps that were identified in Chapter 2.
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100 ADVICE ON THE DOE'S CLEANUP TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP SIDEBAR 4.4 Organizations That Participated in the Committee's Meeting on Opportunities for EM to Leverage Its R&D Programs Department of Energya • Office of Science • Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management • Office of Nuclear Energy Other federal organizations • Department of Defense • Department of Homeland Security • Environmental Protection Agency • Nuclear Regulatory Commission International organizations • International Atomic Energy Agency • Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development aThree DOE national laboratories: Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Savannah River also made presentations. tion, SC is the federal government's largest single funder of materials and chemical sciences, and it supports unique and vital parts of U.S.
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The OBES research portfolio includes material sciences and engineering; chemical and geo- and biosciences; and scientific user facilities, for example, neutron scattering facilities. • The Advanced Scientific Computing Research program has the primary mission to discover, develop, and deploy the computational and networking tools that enable researchers in the scientific disciplines to analyze, model, simulate, and predict complex phenomena important to DOE.
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These results could be systematically examined to identify those niche- and case-specific parameters that operationally affect successful implementation of new cleanup technology. Often the scientific and technical nuances of fundamental research findings may be marginalized in attempting to scale up or implement a new technology at a new site or location, particularly when transferred to a cleanup contractor.
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program, which is intended by the United States as a cooperation with other nations to develop and deploy advanced nuclear recycling and reactor technologies. At the committee's April 2008 meeting, NE presented GNEP as a major component of its fuel cycle technologies program.
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SERDP has environmental drivers that call for the reduction of current and future environmental liabilities. In his presentation, Bradley Smith, SERDP executive director, highlighted environmental challenges including the current intractability of remediating some chlorinated solvents, DOD's potential liability for unexploded ordnance, and emerging new contaminants such as perchlorates.
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. Domestic Nuclear Detection Office of the Department of Homeland Security William Hagan, assistant director of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)
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He listed groundwater remediation technology development, fate and transport modeling, and site characterization as areas for more joint EPA–EM R&D initiatives. Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Broadly speaking, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC)
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The agency works with its Member States11 and multiple partners 10 The Reagan Act applies only to the Idaho and Savannah River sites. 11 IAEA Member States are sovereign nations that have formally applied and been accepted for membership in the IAEA.
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Horst Monken-Fernandes (2008) of the IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology described joint work with the IAEA Division of Radiation, Transport, and Nuclear Safety to assist IAEA Member States in four areas: 1.
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The NEA's 30 member countries house about 85 percent of the world's nuclear power capacity. Hans Riotte, head of Radiation Protection and Waste Management within the NEA, stated that the NEA has long been, and continues to be, a leading organization in the field of radioactive waste management and, in particular, geologic disposal (Riotte and Nokhamzon 2008)
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Federal Partnership Programs: The Role of the Small Business Innovation Research Program In various forms, the federal government has been partnering with both the private sector and academia since its early history. The late Professor Vernon Ruttan, one of the world's leading development economists, with more than 50 years of distinguished academic and nonacademic experience in the United States, is quoted in his recent book: "Government has played an important role in the technology development and transfer in almost every U.S.
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Its participants include all federal agencies with $100 million or larger R&D budgets, such as the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs. The success of the SBIR has led a number of foreign countries, including Finland, India, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, to adopt various aspects of the program in the support of development within their own countries.
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Better application of the basic principles of leveraging research, with recognition that legacy waste cleanup is a national responsibility that requires other organizations to willingly partner with EM. Improving the EM Roadmap The technology roadmapping process has been used widely as a planning tool in industry and government to match technology resources with
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. The process to develop effective leveraging partnerships is not complicated; however, it requires discipline to be carried out in rigorous detail that does not leave any of the essential elements undefined.
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At this step in the process, the Roadmap can be developed in conjunction with potential partners and include time lines for R&D to address technology gaps. Step 2, identifying partners to share resources, was described in the first part of this chapter with some examples of opportunities for partnerships.
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Clearly other opportunities for partnering, especially with organizations outside of the federal sector, will open as EM further develops and implements its Roadmap. In the planning and development of its Roadmap, details, time lines, and close interactions with potential leveraging partners can help ensure that there are viable connections between EM's roadmapped objectives and the support it can negotiate with these partners.
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