A Risk Analysis of Remediation Technologies for a DOE Facility

Abstract

The Department of Energy is responsible for selecting a remediation technology to cleanup the Waste Area Group (WAG) 6 site at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) in Kentucky. WAG 6 is contaminated with an uncertain amount of trichloroethylene (TCE) and technetium-99 (Tc-99). Selecting a remediation technology involves a certain degree of risk because many of these technologies are new or proven only for a specific type of contaminant or a particular set of site conditions. Differences between contaminant type and site conditions are enough to make the performance of a remediation technology uncertain. This research identifies the technological risks of two remediation technologies: Dynamic Underground Stripping (DUS) and In Situ Chemical Oxidation (ISCO). Risk is defined as the likelihood of undesirable events occurring during the implementation of a technology at WAG 6.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA342231

Entities

People

  • Helene A. Wilson

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Alkenes
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Groundwater
  • Heat Energy
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Operations Research
  • Organic Compounds
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Water Resources

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Groundwater Contamination Remediation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design