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

AIKEN, S.C. – A workshop to identify and prioritize key research and technology needs in developing long-term monitoring for groundwater contamination was held at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) recently…

The ALTEMIS team collaborated with SRNS-ACP to install shallow piezometer wells and surface water monitoring points for the deployment of in situ multiparameter sensors near the F-Area wetlands of Fourmile Branch.

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.