Department of Energy Environmental Management

Barkay, T Environmental Protection Agency Gulf Breeze, FL Bioremediation of mercury in aquatic systems US Department of Energy, Environmental Restoration and Waste Management... 

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) manages approximately 1.9 billion cubic meters of radionuclide contaminated environmental media and 4.1 million cubic meters of stored, contaminated waste at 150 different sites located in 30 different states (i, 2). This environmental legacy is a result of the massive industrial complex responsible for defense related and non-defense related research, development and testing of nuclear weapons, nuclear propulsion systems and commercial nuclear power systems. Cleaning up the environmental legacy is expected to cost several hundred billion dollars over the next 5 to 7 decades. To reduce costs and speed remediation efforts the DOE has invested in waste treatment and environmental remediation research. 

Department of Energy Offiee of Environment Safety and Elealth Offiee of Environmental Management, Handbook for Occupational Health and Safety During Hazardous Waste Activities. The text from the publie domain doeuments has been eondensed and has been eoupled with real-life examples that will help to make this book a user-friendly referenee. 

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management (DOEEM), 1998. Characteristics of important radionuclides, (http //web.em.doe.gov/idb97/tabbl. html). 

DOE (Department of Energy), U.S., Environmental Management Program. 1997. Linking legacies - Connecting the Cold War Nuclear Weapons Production Processes to Their Environmental Consequences. DOE/EM-0319, 230 pp. 

DOE/EM-0232 (1995) Estimating the Cold War Mortgage, Volume I The 1995 Baseline Environmental Management Report, US Department of Energy, March 1995.. 

In the fall of 1999, a pilot zeolite barrier was installed at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in Western New York. The WVDP is an environmental management project being conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with the cooperation of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Details of the installation are reported by Moore et al. (2000). The clinoptilolite material used in the barrier had previously been studied by Cantrell (1996) for a proposed installation at the DOE Hanford Facility, by Fuhrmann et al. (1995) for use at the WVDP, and by Lee et al. (1998) for the 1998 installation at Chalk River, Ontario. The range of previously estimated distribution coefficients (Kd) was from 650 mL/g (Fuhrmann et al.) to 2600 mL/g (Cantrell). The variation across these studies is most likely attributable to differences in the source water and experimental conditions, although the data interpretation... 

FY1995 Technology Development Needs Summary, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, March 1994, p. 204 (Report No. DOE/EM-0147P, NTIS Order No. DE94012580). 

West Valley Demonstration Project Waste Management Environmental Impact Statements — Final Summary (2003) U.S. Department of Energy, West valley Area Office, west Valley, NY, DOE/EIS-0337F. 

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