DOE environmental management internation projects highlights

Boris Faybishenko

Contact: 510/486-4852, bafaybishenko@lbl.gov

Research Objectives

Berkeley Lab is involved in eight projects with Russia, Ukraine, and Argentina. The projects with Russia are conducted according to a “Memorandum of Cooperation in the Areas of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management” between DOE and the Ministry of Atomic Energy for the Russian Federation. The projects with Argentina are being conducted according to the “Implementing Arrangement” between DOE and the National Atomic Energy Commission of the Argentine Republic. The collaboration with Ukraine is provided in accordance with the agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine governments concerning the International Radioecology Laboratory of the International Chernobyl Center.

The overall goal of these projects is to assess and improve the capability of the DOE's fate and transport models in predicting future environmental and human impacts of radioactive contaminant releases. The international sites chosen will benefit from application of the latest U.S. models, while DOE will benefit from access to long-term and detailed monitoring data sets of contaminant transport in a variety of contaminant, climatic, and geological settings.

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