| DOE’s Office of Science and Technology
is placing great emphasis on deploying innovative technologies. In FY98, OST’s Accelerated Site Technology Deployment program
(formerly known as the Technology Deployment Initiative) will fund 13 projects that
promise to reduce the cost of environmental management and accelerate cleanup throughout
the DOE complex. Some of the projects on the final list were submitted as separate
proposals, but they were combined due to their similarities in scope. Those currently
funded were selected from 17 finalists based on a review of their deployment plans. For more information, see the Accelerated Site
Technology Deployment program’s Web site located at http://id.inel.gov/astd/.
FY98 Accelerated Site Technology
Deployment Projects
Alternative Landfill Cover System
Deployment on the SNL Mixed Waste Landfill, Albuquerque
An evapo-transpiration cover, in lieu of a more expensive RCRA cover, combined with an
innovative fiber optic monitoring system that eliminates the need for long-term
ground-water monitoring will be deployed on an actual radioactive mixed waste landfill.
Decontamination and Volume Reduction
System, Albuquerque
A combination of technologies will be used to decontaminate and reduce the volume of
transuranic-contaminated gloveboxes in storage.
Deployment of a Permeable Reactive
Treatment Wall for Radionuclides and Metals, Albuquerque
This treatment wall will contain a barrier impermeable to certain radioactive materials
and a permeable “gate” that will allow other materials to pass through.
In-Well Air Stripping Technology to
Remediate an Off-Site Organic Plume,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
In-Well Air Stripping will remove
VOCs from the ground water in situ through mass transfer to the air phase in the well.
Development of an Integrated Technology
Suite for Cost-Effectively Delineating Contamination
in Support of Soil Remediation Actions, Fernald Environmental Management Project
The technologies will improve detection and location of gamma-emitting radionuclides in
surface soils and provide data analysis for decision support.
Integrated Decontamination and
Decommissioning (combined with) Decontamination & Decommissioning of 29 Structures at
Fernald, Idaho and Fernald
Environmental Management Project
A suite of technologies that have been successfully demonstrated at previous D&D
large-scale demonstration projects will be deployed.
Contaminated Soil Clean-Up Using the
ACT*DE*CONSM Process, Ohio (Mound)
The ACT*DE*CON process will be used for cleanup of soils/sediments contaminated with
radionuclides and heavy metals that must be transported and disposed of.
Segmented Gate System (combined with)
Integrated Soil Processing, Ohio
(Mound) and Idaho
The Segmented Gate System will mechanically separate radioactively contaminated soil into
a clean stream and a contaminated stream.
Improved Systems for Tank Sludge
Retrieval, Conditioning, and Transfer, Oak Ridge
Technologies developed by private industry participants will be used to enhance mixing and
mobilization of sludge from various tank configurations and subsequent transfer to
intermediate storage tanks and/or treatment facilities.
Electrochemical Ion Exchange for
Contaminant Removal & Waste Reduction (combined with) Modular Evaporator System for
Waste Volume Reduction in Tanks, Oak Ridge
A modular, single-stage, subatmospheric system will concentrate liquid radioactive waste
prior to immobilization for disposal. Also, a proposed highly selective crystalline
silicotitanate ion-exchange process will remove radiological contaminants.
Slurry Monitoring, Richland
New instruments will reduce the probability of pipeline blockage due to solids
segregation, crystallization, and gelation, and therefore unnecessary line replacement
costs.
Enhanced In Situ Decontamination and Size
Reduction of Gloveboxes, Rocky Flats
Combination of in situ technologies that provides for the radiological characterization,
decontamination, and site reduction of transuranic-contaminated materials.
AEA Fluidic Sampler, Savannah River
Two fluidic samplers will be deployed to obtain accurate and representative samples from
sludge feed tanks containing high- level waste. |
