T201 Characterizing Geochemical Processes: When Is There Sufficient Information?

Wednesday, 30 October 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:15 AM
  THE ROLE OF GEOCHEMISTRY IN BUILDING CONFIDENCE IN THE LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORIES
  Kaye P. Hart, Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC
  42293 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:35 AM
  SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY: THE SITE-SPECIFIC CHARACTERIZATION OF GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
  David T. Vaniman, Los Alamos, NM and David L. Bish, Los Alamos, NM
  45619 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:50 AM
  USING RISK INFORMATION TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL GEOCHEMICAL INFORMATION FOR THE PROPOSED YUCCA MOUNTAIN REPOSITORY
  Bret W. Leslie, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
  44852 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  THE COLD-TRAP PROCESS AND ITS EFFECT ON MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION AND CHEMISTRY OF WATER IN DRIFTS
  Randall Fedors, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and James Prikryl, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Stefan Mayer, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Lauren Browning, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX and Franklin Dodge, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
  41351 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  DATA SUFFICIENCY, EIS DEVELOPMENT, AND REGULATORY DECISION MAKING: THE ROLE OF GIS
  David A. Farrell, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Darrell Sims, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Patrick Mackin, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Randall Fedors, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Marius Necsoiu, Southwest Rsch Institute, San Antonio, TX and Chad Glenn, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD and Amy Snyder, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rockville, TX and Carla Illman, Iowa City, IA
  45098 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  ARSENIC RELEASES FROM BURIED URANIUM MILL TAILINGS AT MCCLEAN LAKE: APPLICATION OF GEOCHEMICAL CONCEPTS AND LICENSE APPROVAL BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT
  Donald Langmuir, Golden, CO and John Mahoney, Lakewood, CO and John W. Rowson, Saskatoon, SK
  42244 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  THE OTHER PART OF WATER-ROCK INTERACTIONS: MINERALS AND MINERAL SURFACES IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
  Chen Zhu, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  41465 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  USE OF A REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODEL TO PREDICT CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS AT A URANIUM MILL TAILINGS SITE IN WYOMING
  D.B. Levy, Summit Geoscience, Fort Collins, CO and T.E. Gieck, Umetco Minerals Corporation, Grand Junction, CO and E.P. Lawrence, Hydrosolutions, Lakewood, CO and C.O. Sealy, Umetco Minerals Corporation, Grand Junction, CO
  38398 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  INSIGHTS FROM PROCESS-LEVEL MODELING OF CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT FROM URANIUM MILL TAILINGS
  John W. Bradbury, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
  45282 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  DISTINGUISHING ANTHROPOGENIC URANIUM IN A HIGH BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT
  Elizabeth T. Pottorff, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environ, Denver, CO and Stephen Singer, Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Golden, CO
  38009 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  CONTAMINANT-TRANSPORT RESEARCH AT THE AMARGOSA DESERT RESEARCH SITE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA
  David A. Stonestrom, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  43657 (Technical Sessions)