Presentations to the Committee

Susanna Gordon, Sandia National Laboratories, in her presentation to the committee at Irvine, California, February 26, 2004. 

The schedules shown to the committee were simply lists of things that had to be done and the time estimated to complete each of them. Alternative paths that would be generated as decisions were made were not evident, nor were any time-related probabilities assigned. The schedules presented to the committee are extremely vulnerable to unforeseen or external events. Moreover, the committee was not provided with total project cost estimates, even of a conceptual or preliminary nature. Without these estimates, it is extremely difficult to evaluate engineering decisions and select the most cost-effective technologies. Based on the lack of documentation, the committee concluded that an adequate preproject plan for a modified baseline process at Pueblo may not exist. If this is true, the completion of the project on schedule and within budget is unlikely. 

Walter Stevens, Division of Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences, U.S. Department of Energy, presentation to the committee. 

A Process Safety Management Problem Is Presented to the Committee... 

Tracy Smith, Compliance Engineer, Washington Group International, ANCDF secondary waste incineration tests, Presentation to the committee on October 16, 2006. 

SOURCE Rob Malone, CMA Task Manager for Closure and Secondary Waste Disposal, Secondary waste background and management criteria by site, Presentation to the committee, August 2, 2006. 

Rob Brooks, ANCDF, Rationale for selection of headspace monitoring levels for off-site shipment of secondary waste, Presentation to the committee, October 16, 2006. 

Larry Bums, General Motors Corporation, Fuel Cell Vehicles and the Hydrogen Economy, presentation to the committee, June 11, 2003. 

John Cassidy, UTC, Inc., Fuel Cell Commercialization, presentation to the committee, April 24, 2003. 

Joan Ogden, Princeton University, Design and Economics of Hydrogen Energy Systems, presentation to the committee, January 23, 2003. 

Charles Forsberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Production of Hydrogen Using Nuclear Energy, presentation to the committee, January 22, 2003. 

Catherine E. Gregoire Padro, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Hydrogen from Other Renewable Resources, presentation to the committee, December 2, 2002. 

Northern Power 4 to 6 cents/kWh for wind farms greater than 50 MW located at good wind sites, while for one or two turbines located at a marginal wind site, prices can be as high as 8 to 12 cents/kWh or higher. Dan Reicher, Northern Power Systems, Hydrogen Opportunities and Challenges, presentation to the committee, June 2003. 

Materials provided at a data-gathering meeting or received by mail or fax from an organization or lay persons who are not officials, agents, or employees of the National Academies are placed in the public access file. Video tapes, audio tapes, or other alternative media such as diskettes or slides or viewgraphs presented to the committee by an organization or by individuals who are not officials, agents, or employees of the National Academies are considered by the National Academies to be subject to public disclosure as well. 

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