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Uncertainty Analysis of Preclosure Accident Doses for the Yucca Mountain Repository
This study presents a generic methodology that can be used to evaluate the uncertainty in the calculated accidental offsite doses at the Yucca Mountain repository during the preclosure...

A Decision Support System for Performance-Based Site Characterization
The complex and dynamic requirements of site characterization present a major management challenge. ParaTrac, a regulatory and technical information system, is described as a valuable...

A High-Level Waste Repository Performance Assessment Methodology
This project was sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute to examine methods that coordinate information from various disciplines to present an integrated perspective on the...

Site-Generic Approach for Performance Assessment of HLW Disposal System in Japan
This paper presents an overview of the preliminary performance analyses and description of R&D activities designed based upon the results of the analyses, which are to be incorporated...

Total-System Analyzer for Performance Assessment of Yucca Mountain
The Total-System Analyzer is a modular computer program for probabilistic total-system performance calculations. The code employs stratified random sampling from model parameter distribution...

Reservation Rebirth?
Slightly under one million American Indians live on reservations�legally sovereign nations that occupy a total land area the size of New England. Unbound by county and state environmental...

Radioactive Waste: Finding a Safe Place
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1981 and its amendments mandate that the U.S. Department of Energy find a repository for the nation's high-level radioactive wastes, characterize...

The Long Climb to Remediation
During World War II, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado served as an Army manufacturing center for the production, then destruction, of mustard gas, napalm, cluster bomb mixtures,...

Closing Hazardous Landfills
Designing and constructing covers for uncontrolled hazardous-waste landfills can pose some special problems�such as differential settlements as great as 50% of landfill thickness. Under...

Fear of Trying
Conventional methods for cleaning up hazardous-waste sites are expensive, subject to increasing restrictions, and don't work that well for certain types of waste. Innovative...

Building a Geographic Information System (GIS) for Siting New York City Sludge Management Facilities
Siting studies for waste facilities usually focus on a particular geographic region, or a defined study area, and are restricted to a specific technology. However, the siting of land-based...

Geographic Information Systems Technology for Environmental Infrastructure Networks
The recent developments in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) industry have captured the attention of many professionals who regularly deal with the management of real-world geographic...

Compaq Center East Water Management Plan
This Water Management Plan attempts to balance the many goals which were established in the Master Plan. Major areas of natural vegetation have been preserved. Stormwater quality pond/wetland...

Management and Statistical Analysis of Groundwater Monitoring Data at Solid Waste Landfills
Solid waste landfills in Ohio and Michigan, as in many states, are required to have monitoring wells. Groundwater samples from these wells are analyzed to determine if leachate from the...

Spills on the Great Lakes a Cause for Concern?The Need for Action to Prevent Them
The present form of water transport of toxic chemicals on the Great Lakes, using inappropriate and obsolete forms of navigation control systems, presents the people and the ecosystem with...

Siting of a Reclaimed Water Reservoir
The City of Santa Rosa (City), California, retained Woodward-Clyde Consultants to identify, evaluate, screen and rank potential sites for construction of a dam and reservoir to store reclaimed...

CSO Pollution Abatement Project Performance
The City of Trenton, NJ combined sewer overflow (CSO) pollution abatement project has been in operation for more than four years. Daily records include composite BOD₅...

Drainage Design Criteria: Too Restricted? Too Broad? Too Outdated?
Should drainage design policies be more flexible, leaving the field more open to engineering judgment? Are some policies too loose or broad? Should design criteria more closely reflect...

Development of a Prioritization Tool for Multimedia Enforcement
This paper describes a decision support system developed for the Environmental Protection Agency that assists their staff in the prioritization of resources for the enforcement of multi-media...

Stormwater/Wastewater Management: How an Application Can Drive a GIS
Decision makers are finding that a much-needed application may be the key that drives the creation of a city- or county-wide Geographic Information System (GIS). A start-up GIS developed...

 

 

 

 

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