Related DOE Goals

LTS | Alternatives to Incineration | National TRU Waste Optimization Plan | ASTD | FRTR | IRTC |

Robotics Road Map | Vadose Zone Roadmap
  • Office of Long-Term Stewardship (LTS)
    The Long-term Stewardship Program will maintain and continuously improve protection of public health, safety, and the environment at a site or portion of a site assigned to DOE for such purposes. This mission includes providing sustained human and environmental well-being through the mitigation of residual risks and the conservation of the site's natural, ecological, and cultural resources.

  • Alternatives to Incineration
    The "Report of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Panel on Emerging Technological Alternatives to Incineration" (December 2000) contains the Panel's evaluation and recommendation on emerging nonincineration technologies for treatment and disposal of mixed waste on which the Assistant Secretary of Environmental Management's Office of Science and Technology should focus efforts for development, testing, permitting, and deployment.

  • National TRU Waste Optimization Plan (Available Soon)
  • Accelerated Site Technology Deployment Program (ASTD)
    The ASTD program, formerly known as the Technology Deployment Initiative, is designed to accelerate the use of new technologies and innovative approaches to achieve the goals identified in the DOE Office of Environmental Management document "Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure" (DOE/EM-0342).

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  • Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable (FRTR)
    The Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable is an interagency working group seeking to build a more collaborative atmosphere among the federal agencies involved in hazardous waste site remediation. By providing such opportunities, the Roundtable hopes to identify and publicize more efficient, cost-effective solutions to the Federal Government's hazardous waste challenges.
  • Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC)
    ITRC is a state-led coalition working together with industry and stakeholders to achieve regulatory acceptance of environmental technologies. ITRC accomplishes its mission in two ways: it develops guidance documents and training courses to meet the needs of both regulators and environmental consultants, and it works with state representatives to ensure that ITRC products and services have maximum impact among state environmental agencies and technology users. Active Project Areas involving CMS Technologies include: Sampling, Characterization, & Monitoring; DOE Gate 6 Technology: Evaluation of Demonstrations and Deployments; Cleanup Goals at Radiologically-Contaminated Sites and In-Situ Radionuclide Characterization; and Technologies to Support Long Term Stewardship.

    Active Project Areas involving CMS Technologies include:
    Sampling, Characterization, & Monitoring (Project #: 2001-5)
    ITRC has formed a new team to address the opportunities presented by a number of innovations and paradigm shifts in the sampling and monitoring field related to real time information, continuous monitoring, and long term monitoring for site closure and stewardship.

    Project Proposal / Fact Sheet ITRC Five Year Program Plan (2002-2006)
    http://www.itrcweb.org/user/SCM2001-5.pdf
    DOE Gate 6 Technology: Evaluation of Demonstrations and Deployments (Project #: 2001-26)
    Existing ITRC Multi-state/stakeholder teams will perform technical and/or regulatory evaluations of selected demonstrations and critical deployments of DOE technologies ready for full field deployment (at "Gate 6").
    Project Proposal / Fact Sheet ITRC Five Year Program Plan (2002-2006)
    http://www.itrcweb.org/user/DOEGate6Technologies2001-26.pdf
    Cleanup Goals at Radiologically-Contaminated Sites and In-Situ Radionuclide Characterization (Project #: 2001-17)
    Sub-Project A: Cleanup Goals at Radioactively Contaminated Sites
    The Radionuclides Team will develop the ITRC document "Determining Cleanup Goals at Radioactively Contaminated Sites: Case Studies" and develop and implement a training program for Radiation Risk Assessment approaches.
    Sub-Project B: In-Situ Radionuclide Characterization
    A multi-state Radionuclide Team will work with DOE's Office of Science & Technology to evaluate in-situ characterization technologies for more widespread implementation at DOE sites, and develop a case studies document and training modules.
    Project Proposal / Fact Sheet ITRC Five Year Program Plan (2002-2006)
    http://www.itrcweb.org/user/RADSCleanup2001-17.pdf
    TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT LONG TERM STEWARDSHIP (Proposal #: 2001-16)
    A multi-state Radionuclide Team will work with DOE's Office of Science & Technology and the Office of Long Term Stewardship to look at technologies for implementing DOE's stewardship commitments around the complex, and develop a technology overview document.
    Project Proposal / Fact Sheet ITRC Five Year Program Plan (2002-2006)
    http://www.itrcweb.org/user/RADSLTS2001-16.pdf

    Success Story
    Partners in promoting new environmental technologies - ITRC and California
    http://www.itrcweb.org/CAsuccess2.pdf

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  • Robots and Intelligent Machines (RIM) Roadmap (9.9 MB .pdf file)
    The purpose of the RIM Roadmap is to identify, select, and develop objectives that will satisfy near- and long-term challenges posed by DOE's mission objectives. Development of the RIM Roadmap began with a clear discussion of the major needs of each of the participating PSOs over the next several decades. From this, the Roadmapping Team was able to identify areas and time frames—Functional Objectives—in which advances in RIM technology could play a role in enabling each PSO to meet its goals. After identifying a set of Functional Objectives, the Roadmapping Team determined underlying basis technology areas and individual RIM applications and technologies relevant to each Functional Objective--thus mapping the pathway a technology will follow for incorporation into each PSO's operations. An executive summary (4.3 MB .pdf file) of the Roadmap is also available.

  • Vadose Zone Roadmap
    The draft Vadose Zone Roadmap, released on September 25, 2000, provides the context for making long-term vadose zone decisions for contaminated sites nationwide. Once finalized, the Vadose Zone Roadmap will guide national research priorities that will benefit contaminated DOE sites as well as hazardous and solid waste disposal sites across the U.S.

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