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Appendix C: Interim Report
Appendix C: Interim Report
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6 DOE has defined its D&D task to include buildings and equipment therein: production and research reactors; facilities for chemical processing, uranium and plutonium processing, and tritium extraction; and gaseous diffusion plants.
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. Three subsequent meetings, which included tours of facilities that are illustrative of major D&D challenges, were arranged as follows: · Hanford, May 24-25, 2000, focused on production reactor, separations, and fuel fabrication facilities; · Oak Ridge, June 26-27, 2000, focused on research reactor, gaseous diffusion, and laboratory facilities; and · Rocky Flats, August 23-24, 2000, focused on plutonium handling facilities and lessons learned.
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Minimally invasive schemes like laser ablation mass spectroscopy (Van Hecke and Karukstis, 1998) or nonintrusive techniques like neutron activation and x-ray analysis appear to be attractive candidates for further research.
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Remote sensing systems can provide both economic and safety benefits by distancing the worker from hazardous work areas. Remote mapping of activity levels using gamma cameras (USDOE, 1998b)
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Biotechnical advances in surface treatments of contaminated structures and materials are anticipated from continuing R&D activities, elucidation of biocatalytic properties of biological systems and engineering chemicals, and biosurfactants with unique physical chemical properties (Sullivan, 1998; Banat et al., 2000~. A fundamental understanding of the biological processes would also help to ensure that waste by-products from the decontamination could be safely treated and stabilized.
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. A robot capable of mimicking human adaptability, however, would require a non-linear control system coupled to many parameters corresponding to the physical features that accurately represent performance of the task.
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The advice summarized below is preliminary, and the committee intends to develop it further in its final report. We note that similar advice has been provided in previous NRC reports and in the Strategic Laboratory Council's recent Adequacy Analysis of the Environmental Quality R&D Portfolio (USDOE, 2000~.
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) 4 The committee appreciates receiving presentations and comments from Citizens' Advisory Boards during its Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Rocky Flats visits.
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The committee believes that EMSP should consider further encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations, among disciplines such as biology, physics, materials science, and engineering in its calls for proposals.~7 Due to the nature of D&D work, interdisciplinary collaborations are more likely to lead to new, deployable technologies than research in a single area. One early step could be to provide for discussion amongst the proposers of the potential projects selected from review of the FY 01 pre-proposals, perhaps in the context of an EMSP National Workshop such as that held in April 2000.
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, Boonton, New Jersey ANTHONY CAMPILLO, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia FRANK CRIMI, Lockheed Martin Advanced Environmental Systems Company (retired) , Saratoga, California KEN CZERWINSKI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge RACHEL DETWILER, Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc., Skokie, Illinois HARRY HARMON, Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina VINCENT MASSAUT, CEN.SCK, Mol.
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of complex, highly contaminated facilities formerly used for the production of nuclear materials. The report will accomplish the following: .
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, Wilmington, Delaware Michael Corradini, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Howie Choset, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Mary DeFlaun, Envirogen, Inc., Lawrenceville, New Jersey Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by George Hornberger, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, appointed by the Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, who was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered.
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1995. Determining Task Optimal Modular Robot Assembly Configurations.
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Asher, 1997. Polymerized colloidal crystalline hydrogel films as intelligent R E S E A R C H O P P O R T U N ~ T ~ E S F O R D & D
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1999. Long Range Alpha Detection for Component Monitoring, Innovative Technology Summary Report.
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