Critical Resources Program

• Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center 
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• Geoscience Research and Applications Group 
• Other Projects 
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"..integrated solutions to global waste management problems"

Contacts
Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center Director
Sid Gutierrez
(smgutie@sandia.gov)
(505)844-6968

Geoscience Research and Applications Group Manager
John Merson (jamerso@sandia.gov)
(505)844-2756

The following fact sheets are representative of, but not limited to, various capabilities of the Critical Resources  Program.

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Index

Characterization and Monitoring

Containment and Barriers

Modeling and Decision Analysis

Treatment and Removal

Related Projects, Facilities, and other Capabilities

• Projects
• Capabilities
• Facilities

Characterization and Monitoring  (Return to Index)

• 3-D Electromagnetic Imaging
  
  
• Advanced In Situ Moisture Logging
  
  
• Automated Multiscale Permeameter
  
  
• Automated Two-Phase Flow Test System
  
  
• Characterization of Brittle Materials Under Multiaxial Loading
  
  
• Characterization of the Erodibility of Sediments in Marine Environments
  
  
  • Development for the Optional Use of Circular Core Tubes with the High Shear Stress Flume
  
  
  
  • Development of Flume with Oscillatory Flow Superimposed over a Unidirectional Flow
  
  
  
  • High-Shear Stress Flume Development
  
  
  
  • Separation of Bedload and Suspended Load with Modified High-Shear Stress Flume
    
    
• Development of Hybrid Cost-Effective Directional Drilling Equipment
  
  
• Environmental Fate and Transport of Chemical Signatures
  
  
• Environmental Measurement-While-Drilling System
  
  
• Fiber Optic Relative Humidity and TDR Sensors for the Cone Penetrometer
  
  
• Field-Scale Tracer Testing: Determination of Controlling Transport Processes in Fractured and Heterogeneous Subsurface Environments
  
  
• Flow Probe™ Chemical Analyzer
  
  
• Geostatistical Modeling of Spatially Heterogeneous Material Properties
  
  
• Geosynthetic Membrane Monitoring System
  
  
• Geotechnical Studies and Engineered Barriers



• Hybrid Hydrologic-Geophysical Inverse Technique for Assessment and Monitoring in the Vadose Zone
  
  
• In Situ, Three-Dimensional Flow Velocity Measurement
  
  
• Landfill Assessment and Monitoring System
  
  
• Low Temperature Fluid-Mineral Interactions
  
  
• Magnetometer Towed Array
  
  
• Magnetostrictive Borehole Seismic Source
  
  
• Micro-chemical Sensors for In Situ Monitoring and Characterization of Volatile Contaminants
  
  
• Sandia Tomography and Radionuclide Transport Laboratory
  
  
• SEAMIST™ Instrumentation/Sampling System
  
  
• SEAtrace™
  
  
• Subsurface Gas Flow Probe
  
  
• Subsurface Imaging Using Crossborehole Electromagnetics
  
  
• Transmitted Light Imaging
  
  
• Vadose Zone Monitoring System
  
  
• Visualization and Quantification of Diffusion Processes in Consolidated Materials
  
  
• X-Ray Absorption Imaging System
  
  
• XRD Mineralogy and SEM/EDS Mineral Coating Work
  
  

Containment and Barriers  (Return to Index)

• Alternative Landfill Cover Demonstration
  
  
• Demonstrate Capillary Barrier Landfill Cover Concepts
  
  
• Dry Barrier Applications for Landfills
  
  
• Geosynthetic Membrane Monitoring System (GMMS)
  
  
• Geotechnical Studies and Engineered Barriers



• In Situ Reactive Barrier Systems
  
  
• Landfill Assessment and Monitoring System
  
  
• SEAtrace™
  
  
• Subsurface Barrier Systems
  
  

Modeling and Decision Analysis  (Return to Index)

• Analysis of Long-Term, Regional-Scale Ground-Water Flow
  
  
• Atomistic and Molecular Simulations in Geochemistry and Materials Science
  
  
• Contaminant Transport in Subsurface Environments: Analysis of Multi-Rate Diffusive Transport
  
  
• DEPOT: A Database of Enviornmental Parameters, Organizations, and Tools



• Discrete Element Modeling
  
  
• DNAPLs (Dense Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids)
  
  
• Explosive Structure Interaction
  
  
• Geomechanics for Reservoir Management
  
  
• Geostatistical Modeling of Spatially Heterogeneous Material Properties
  
  
• Hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian Model of HydroGeoChemical Transport
  
  
• Lattice Boltzmann Calculations of Flow, Dispersion and Reaction
  
  
• Low Temperature Fluid-Mineral Interactions
  
  
• Material Behavior Under Impulsive Loading
  
  
• Mechanics of Powder Compaction for Ceramic Manufacturing
  
  
• Microscale Characterization and Modeling of Porous Media
  
  
• Near Wellbore Mechanics
  
  
• Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Behavior During Primary and Secondary Recovery
  
  
• Performance Assessment and Regulatory Compliance



• POR-SALSA: A Numerical Simulator for Nonisothermal Multiphase Subsurface Flow on Massively Parallel Architectures
  
  
• Proliferation Resistance Analysis Tool (PRAT)
  
  
• RAMPART: Risk Assessment Method--Property Analysis and Ranking Tool



• Risk Assessment for Nuclear Waste Management



• Rock Blasting Computer Simulations
  
  
• Sandia Environmental Decision Support System Overview
  
  
• Shear Strain Localization and Fracture Evolution in Rocks
  
  
• Smart Sampling™
  
  
• Visualization and Quantification of Diffusion Processes in Consolidated Materials
  
  

Treatment and Removal  (Return to Index)

• SNL Decon Formulation for Mitigation and Decontamination of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
  
  
• Electrokinetic Remediation of Metals
  
  
• In Situ Reactive Barrier Systems
  
  
• Thermal Enhanced Vapor Extraction System
  
  

Related Projects, Facilities, and Other Capabilities

Projects  (Return to Index)

• Greater Confinement Disposal Project
  
  
• Mixed Waste Landfill Accelerated Site Technology Deployment
  
  
• National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program
  
  
• National Transuranic Program
  
  
• Navajo Nation U.S. Federal Laboratories Partnership
  
  
• Sandia Natural Attenuation Project
  
  
• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Project
  
  
• Yucca Mountain Project
  
  

Capabilities  (Return to Index)

• Nuclear Waste Packaging Consensus Standards Development
  
  
• Quality Assurance
  
  
• Records Management
  
  
• Transparency in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
  
  
• Water Safety, Security, and Sustainability (Under development)
  
  

  Development of improved water resource management for agricultural, domestic, industrial, and ecological uses, and improved water conservation, distribution, treatment, and re-use technology.

  
  

Facilities  (Return to Index)

• Arid Environmental Technology Center
  
  
• Environmental Geographic Information System (EGIS)
  
  
• Geochemistry-Sandia National Laboratories/Carlsbad
  
  
• In Situ Sensing Laboratory
  
  
• Overview of the Flow Visualization and Process Laboratory
  
  
• Sandia Colloid Geochemistry and Transport Laboratory
  
  
• Sandia Tomography and Radionuclide Transport Laboratory
  
  
• Soil-Actinide-Metal Interactions Analysis and Modeling Laboratory
  
  
• Soil and Sediment Transport Laboratory
  
  
• Vadose Zone Research and Development Facilities
  
  

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