Session II-F. Site screening/characterization support activities

Site screening and characterization activities within the NWTS Program are being performed at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site by Rockwell, the DOE's Nevada Test Site under the technical overview of Sandia National Laboratories, and throughout the remainder of the conterminous 48 states by Battelle's Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation. The status of these activities was discussed in Session II-A, Site Characterization, of this information meeting. There are numerous other activities within the program that support the site screening and characterization activities. The following papers presented in this session summarizes a select few of these support activities: (1) earth-science data needs and acquisition methods; (2) status of NNWSI area-to-location screening activities; (3) far-field repository performance constraints; (4) postclosure performance modeling in support of siting decisions; and (5) ONWI site characterization data-base scoping