AS&T scientists and collaborators extracting an intact block sample of the Falls City, Texas, Disposal Site radon barrier to be submitted for lab analyses of soil engineering properties.
The AS&T Program has a critical role in our mission to safeguard human health, environments, and public properties bound to the nation’s post-closure responsibilities at former atomic defense sites. Given the long half-lives of some radionuclides, our sites will require LTS&M for hundreds or even thousands of years. Incorporating improvements in scientific understanding and technology applications into site management and remediation strategies improves cleanup effectiveness, protectiveness, and sustainability and can decrease long-term costs. The overriding goal of AS&T is to incorporate advances in science and technology to improve capabilities toward fulfilling the LM mission. AS&T strives to move the “state of the science” in long-term stewardship strategies and methods into the “state of the practice” at LM sites.
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