Ensuring long-term environmental protection at DOE’s legacy sites

Environmental monitoring is an essential tool for improving transparency, building community trust and combating misinformation in consent-based siting processes for nuclear facilities, write MIT professor H. Wainwright and SRNL senior technical adviser Carol Eddy-Dilek.

On July 13th, there was a congressional energy subcommittee hearing on nuclear waste cleanup: research and development opportunities for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management…

During the week of July 11 – 14, members of the ALTEMIS team from SRNL and PNNL collaborated with SRNS’s ACP to install an electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) array at the F-Area Hazardous Waste Management Facility (FHWMF) along the cap of F-Area Basin 3.