Management models

Management models are used here as a vehicle to organize the ecological research tasks required for the biotic transport program. Three kinds of models are described: ecosystem level simulation models; radionuclide transport models; and optimization models. The ecosystem simulation model is included here as a coupling agent between climatic variables and waste management practices with the transport and optimization models. Certainly the potential for radionuclide transport depends to a large degree upon the density, type and vigor of plant species inhabiting burial sites. These parameters, in turn, are related to past management practices, precipitation patterns, and successional stages, all predictable using current techniques