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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5539.
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BARRIER TECHNOLOGIES for ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Summary of a Workshop

Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes

Board on Radioactive Waste Management

Commission Geosciences, Environment, and Resources

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1997

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5539.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competencies and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by the Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-FC01-94EW54069/R. All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy.

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Cover art by Y. David Chung. Mr. Chung is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. He has exhibited widely throughout the country, including the Whitney Museum in New York, the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Copyright 1997 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5539.
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COMMITTEE ON REMEDIATION OF BURIED AND TANK WASTES

THOMAS M. LESCHINE*, Chair,

University of Washington, Seattle

DENISE BIERLEY,

Roy F. Weston, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico

ROBERT J. BUDNITZ ,

Future Resources Associates, Berkeley, California

THOMAS A. BURKE,

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

ROBERT J. CATLIN,

University of Texas (ret.), Houston

GREGORY R. CHOPPIN,

Florida State University, Tallahassee

JAMES H. CLARKE,

ECKENFELDER INC., Nashville, Tennessee

THOMAS A. COTTON,

JK Research Associates, Inc., Arlington, Virginia

ALLEN G. CROFF,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee

RODNEY C. EWING,

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

DONALD R. GIBSON, JR.,

TRW Environmental Safety Systems, Vienna, Virginia

JAMES H. JOHNSON, JR.,

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

W. HUGH O'RIORDAN,

Givens Pursley & Huntley, Boise, Idaho

GLENN PAULSON,

Paulson and Cooper, Inc., Jackson Hole, Wyoming

BENJAMIN ROSS,

Disposal Safety Incorporated, Washington, D.C.

PAUL A. WITHERSPOON,

University of California, Berkeley

RAYMOND G. WYMER,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ret.), Tennessee

Staff

ROBERT S. ANDREWS, Senior Staff Officer

DENNIS L. DUPREE, Senior Project Assistant

PATRICIA A. JONES, Senior Project Assistant

*  

Chair as of May 9, 1996.

  

Chair until May 9, 1996

  

Resigned December 4, 1995

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5539.
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BOARD ON RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT

MICHAEL C. KAVANAUGH, Chair,

Malcolm Pirnie, Oakland, California

B. JOHN GARRICK, Vice-Chair,

PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, California

JOHN F. AHEARNE,

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, and Duke University, Research Triangle Park and Durham, North Carolina

JEAN M. BAHR,

University of Wisconsin, Madison

SOL BURSTEIN,

Wisconsin Electric Power (ret.), Milwaukee

ANDREW P. CAPUTO,

Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.

MELVIN W. CARTER,

Georgia Institute of Technology (emeritus), Atlanta

PAUL P. CRAIG,

University of California (emeritus), Davis

MARY R. ENGLISH,

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

DARLEANE C. HOFFMAN,

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

JAMES H. JOHNSON, JR.,

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

H. ROBERT MEYER,

Keystone Scientific, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado

CHARLES McCOMBIE,

National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Wettingen, Switzerland

D. WARNER NORTH,

Decision Focus, Inc., Mountain View, California

PAUL SLOVIC,

Decision Research, Eugene, Oregon

BENJAMIN L. SMITH, Independent Consultant,

Columbia, Tennessee

Staff

KEVIN D. CROWLEY, Director

ROBERT S. ANDREWS, Senior Staff Officer

KARYANIL T. THOMAS, Senior Staff Officer

THOMAS E. KIESS, Staff Officer

SUSAN B. MOCKLER, Research Associate

LISA J. CLENDENING, Administrative Associate

ROBIN L. ALLEN, Senior Project Assistant

REBECCA BURKA, Senior Project Assistant

DENNIS L. DuPREE, Senior Project Assistant

PATRICIA A. JONES, Senior Project Assistant

ANGELA R. TAYLOR, Project Assistant

ERICA L. WILLIAMS, Research Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5539.
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COMMISSION ON GEOSCIENCES, ENVIRONMENT, AND RESOURCES

GEORGE M. HORNBERGER, Chairman,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

PATRICK R. ATKINS,

Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

JAMES P. BRUCE,

Canadian Climate Program Board, Ottawa, Ontario

WILLIAM L. FISHER,

University of Texas, Austin

JERRY F. FRANKLIN,

University of Washington, Seattle

DEBRA KNOPMAN,

Progressive Foundation, Washington, D.C.

PERRY L. MCCARTY,

Stanford University, California

JUDITH E. MCDOWELL,

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

S. GEORGE PHILANDER,

Princeton University, New Jersey

RAYMOND A. PRICE,

Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario

THOMAS C. SCHELLING,

University of Maryland, College Park

ELLEN SILBERGELD,

University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore

VICTORIA J. TSCHINKEL,

Landers and Parsons, Tallahassee, Florida

Staff

STEPHEN RATTIEN, Executive Director

STEPHEN D. PARKER, Associate Executive Director

MORGAN GOPNIK, Assistant Executive Director

GREGORY SYMMES, Reports Officer

JAMES MALLORY, Administrative Officer

SANDI FITZPATRICK, Administrative Associate

MARQUITA SMITH, PC Analyst & Project Assistant

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Acknowledgments

Many people assisted in the design and conduct of the Workshop on Barriers for Long-Term Isolation. The Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes thanks John Lehr, Office of Environmental Restoration of the U.S. Department of Energy, for his support and participation as a general chair of the workshop. Other general chairs for the workshop were committee members James Clarke of ECKENFELDER INC. and Paul Witherspoon of the University of California at Berkeley. The committee also thanks Julie D'Ambrosia of EnviroTech Associates, Inc., for her assistance with the planning and conduct of the workshop, and for providing notes on the workshop to the committee. In addition, the committee thanks Glendon Gee of Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, David Daniel of the University of Texas (now at the University of Illinois), Robert Mutch of ECKENFELDER INC., and Paul Witherspoon, all of whom served as session chairs at the workshop.

Committee members James Clarke and Paul Witherspoon, along with committee staff officer Robert Andrews and DOE contractor Julie D'Ambrosia, formed a steering group to develop the concept and structure of the workshop. Susan Mockler, research associate for the Board on Radioactive Waste Management, assisted with preparation and editing of the report and the articles prepared by the presenters. Dennis DuPree and Patricia Jones, senior project assistants for the board, assisted in workshop logistics and registration and in preparation of this report. Although this report is the product of the committee, we acknowledge initiatives of the steering group to organize and conduct the workshop and to help prepare an early draft of the report.

The committee also acknowledges the contribution of the speakers at this workshop for providing their papers for inclusion in this report.

Thomas Leschine, Chair

Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes

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To control the migration of radioactive and hazardous wastes currently contained underground, barriers made of natural materials and man-made substances are constructed atop, and possibly around, the contaminated area. Barrier Technologies for Environmental Management provides a brief summary of the key issues that arose during the Workshop on Barriers for Long-Term Isolation. Recurring themes from the session include the importance of quality control during installation, followed by periodic inspection, maintenance, and monitoring, and documentation of installation and performance data. The book includes papers by the workshop presenters.

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