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Research Opportunities for Managing the Department of Energy's Transuranic and Mixed Wastes (2002) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction, Background, and Task
Pages 10-13

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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 three-year competitive awards to investigators in industry, national laboratories, and universities to undertake research on problems relevant to DOE cleanup efforts.
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From page 11...
... Readers of this report who may intend to submit proposals to the EMSP should seek updated information from the DOE Office of Science.4 Statement of Task The statement of task for this study charged the committee to provide recommendations for a science research program for managing mixed and transuranic wastes that are currently stored at DOE sites or will be produced as part of DOE's site cleanup program (see Sidebar 1.1~. To address the statement of task, the committee has made recommendations in four categories in which it believes that EMSP-funded 3The Committee on Long-Term Research Needs for Managing Transuranic and Mixed Wastes at Department of Energy Sites, which developed this report, is referred to as "the committee" throughout.
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From page 12...
... Buried waste retrieval and long-term monitoring of waste disposal have received little attention within DOE, but they are likely to present significant obstacles for completing site cleanup. Chapter 2 of this report frames DOE's broad challenges in managing and disposing of its transuranic and mixed wastes the large and diverse inventory, multiple and changing regulations, and public concerns.
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... Although the discussions were influenced to some degree by the backgrounds and expertise of committee members, the research recommendations were arrived at by 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 technology breakthroughs. The committee held five meetings between May 2001 and February 2002 to gather information (see Appendix E)
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