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

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.

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…