Academic Journal
Scientific Opportunities to Reduce Risk in Nuclear Process Science - 9279
| العنوان: | Scientific Opportunities to Reduce Risk in Nuclear Process Science - 9279 |
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| المؤلفون: | P R Bredt, A R Felmy, P A Gauglitz, A P Poloski, J D Vienna, B A Moyer, D Hobbs, B Wilmarth, M Mcilwain, K Subramanian, S Krahn, N Machara, Staff |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9279.pdf. |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | Cleaning up the nation's nuclear weapons complex remains as one of the most technologically challenging and financially costly problems facing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Safety, cost, and technological challenges have often delayed progress in retrieval, processing, and final disposition of high-level waste, spent nuclear fuel, and challenging materials. Some of the issues result from the difficulty and complexity of the technological issues; others have programmatic bases, such as strategies that may provide undue focus on near-term goals or difficulty in developing and maintaining stakeholder confidence in the proposed solutions. We propose that independent basic fundamental science research addressing the full cleanup life-cycle offers an opportunity to help address these challenges by providing 1) scientific insight into the fundamental mechanisms involved in currently selected processing and disposal options, 2) a rational path to the development of alternative technologies should the primary options fail, 3) confidence that models that predict long-term performance of different disposal options are based upon the best available science, and 4) fundamental science discovery that enables transformational solutions to revolutionize the current baseline processes. Over the last 3 years, DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) has experienced a fundamental shift in philosophy. The mission focus of driving to closure has been replaced by one of enabling the long-term needs of DOE and the nation. Resolving new challenges, such as the disposition of DOE spent nuclear fuel, have been added 1 WM2009 Conference, March 1-5, 2009 Phoenix, AZ to EM's responsibilities. In addition, the schedules for addressing several elements of the cleanup mission have been extended. As a result, EM's mission is no longer focused only on driving the current baselines to closure. Meeting the mission will require fundamental advances over at least a 30-year window if not longer as new challenges are added. The ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
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| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1086.7708; http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9279.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1086.7708 http://www.wmsym.org/archives/2009/pdfs/9279.pdf |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.3F9F89BB |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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