Documenting use of {open_quotes}acceptable knowledge{close_quotes} for environmental restoration waste characterization
J.W. Krueger, Robert L. Glenn, M.J. Winch · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society · 1995
During 1994, the first year that the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) environmental restoration (ER) project began generating significant quantities of waste, a team was established from the LANL ER, waste management, and regulatory compliance organizations to work on issues concerning relative responsibilities of these programs. The two primary goals were (a) to establish clear paths of communication between the organizations and (b) to develop sampling and characterization strategies for waste that would optimize the use of analytical data and other site information for both site characterization and waste characterization purposes. This paper describes in some detail the development and implementation of a new policy and system of documentation for the use of acceptable knowledge for waste characterization.