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1 Introduction, Background, and Task
Pages 11-15

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... · Serve as a stimulus for focusing the nation's science infrastructure on critical national environmental management problems. To help meet these goals, the EMSP provides 3-year competitive awards to investigators in industry, national laboratories, and universities to undertake research on problems relevant to DOE cleanup efforts.
From page 12...
... The advice provided by the NRC studies, as well as the EMSP's calls for proposals, reflected EM's organization of its science and technology development activities into five "focus areas," which are the topical areas of the NRC studies mentioned abovesubsurface contamination, high-level waste, facility deactivation and decommissioning, transuranic and mixed wastes, and nuclear materials. During the course of this study the EMSP was in transition from EM to the DOE Office of Science, Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD)
From page 13...
... To address the statement of task, the committee directed its attention to the following five groups of materials that it believes present the most difficult challenges and provide the greatest opportunities for EMSP research to significantly improve DOE's ability to manage its excess nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuels: · Plutonium-239. The inventory of Pu-bearing solids that is considered DOE legacy material encompasses approximately 100 metric tons, about half of which has been declared as excess.
From page 14...
... The general research recommendations were developed through a consensus process that considered input to the committee, site needs, the existence of critical knowledge gaps, the potential for future cost and schedule savings. and the possibility of achieving scientific breakthroughs.
From page 15...
... Especially useful were roundtable discussions among the committee and scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories (New Mexico) , Oak Ridge, Savannah River, Hanford, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.


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