EnviroTRADE (Environmental Technologies for Remedial Action Data Exchange) is a computer based international information system. Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Technology Development, Environmental Management and Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, EnviroTRADE allows users to match a specific site's problems with potential remediation technologies. The system can provide descriptions of site-specific environmental problems, technology descriptions, cartographic data, and names of scientific and technical experts. If no appropriate technology exists for a particular problem, the system will identify the potential for its development.
EnviroTRADE is a client/server system featuring the following.
In cooperation with DOE and Sandia National Laboratories, Sun Microsystems has supported the installation of six work stations at former Soviet Union institutes and facilities including the Russian Federal Nuclear Center Institute of Technical Physics, Chelyabinsk 70, Khlopin Radium Institute; and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Department of Rare Metals Geology and Radiogeoecology in Moscow. The work stations support the application of basic wide area network and local area network technologies as well as databases such as EnviroTRADE. The network enhances communication between the U.S. and former Soviet Union technologists, scientists, and policy makers. Currently, examples of EnviroTRADE's utility are being provided via Internet's World Wide Web network through the application of Mosaic software.
DOE is seeking to commercialize the EnviroTRADE System and has entered into negotiations to accomplish that objective. EnviroTRADE will be available to program managers in DOE's Office of Environmental Management through their network system.
