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NEEL workers load debris into a Lift-liner soft-sided container and demonstrate the loading frame.OST achievements among DOE’s most significant

A panel of citizen judges has selected several Office of Science and Technology accomplishments as being among DOE’s top scientific and technological achievements since the department was formed 23 years ago. From nominations submitted by DOE sites and laboratories, the judges selected the 100 most notable achievements in terms of contributing to society by helping consumers save money and improve the quality of life. The innovations honored with Energy 100 Awards have come from two traditional DOE missions—the energy and environment sectors.

OST programs and initiatives have contributed to the development or deployment of the following Energy 100 Award winners:
Among the 22 technologies demonstrated at the CP-5 LSDDP was Redzone's Mobile Robot Work System, also known as Rosie.

  • Soft-Sided Waste Containers (Tech ID 2240) offer an
    • 8-to-1 cost savings over plywood or metal boxes. They are also more volumetrically efficient and easier to use, and they reduce future landfill settling, sinking, and breaching of landfill caps (see Initiatives, Spring 1999).

  • PHOSter® (Tech ID 2971) provides controlled addition of phosphate to sites contaminated with organic compounds, speeding up the natural process of contaminant degradation through bioremediation (see Initiatives, December 1996).

  • BOA (Tech ID 148) is a robot that remotely strips and bags asbestos material from pipes, reducing risk for workers (see Initiatives, June 1997).
    The world's first GeoSiphon was installed at the Savannah River Site's TNX facility in July 1997 to treat trichloroethylene and carbon tetrachlorida-contaminated groundwater.
  • CP-5 Large-Scale Demonstration and Deployment Project, at the Chicago Pile 5 (CP-5) Research Reactor facility at Argonne National Laboratory, was the first large-scale demonstration and deployment project (LSDDP) to be completed and was the venue for demonstrating 22 innovative D&D technologies. OST’s D&D Focus Area undertook this LSDDP as part of its strategy to demonstrate innovative D&D technologies alongside baseline commercial technologies as part of an actual full-scale environmental management project (see Initiatives, Summer 1998).

  • GeoSiphon/Geoflow Groundwater Treatment (Tech ID 2063) is a passive, in situ groundwater treatment system, which takes advantage of natural gradient and pressure differences to induce contaminated groundwater to flow at an accelerated rate through a permeable reactive medium (see Initiatives, Spring 2001).
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