Establish, Maintain, and Monitor Long-Term LysimetersCX(s) Applied: B3.1Date: 07/30/2010Location(s): Aiken, South CarolinaOffice(s): Savannah River Operations Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
July 30, 2010
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CX(s) Applied: B3.1
Date: 07/30/2010
Location(s): Aiken, South Carolina
Office(s): Savannah River Operations Office
Establish a field location and install a 10-year field experiment to simulate and study the movement of radionuclides through an artificial vadose zone. The general objectives of the study are to: 1. Identify and quantify key long-term (10 year) radiological geochemical and transport phenomena under field vadose zone conditions. 2. Identify coupled (interacting) long-term processes that are not evident in short duration laboratory experiments. 3. Reduce uncertainty and improve technical justification for selection of geochemical conceptual models in various facility Performance Assessments (PA).