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 Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center is made up of a diverse group of analysts and modelers, experimentalists, and staff from related fields focusing on solving the problems associated with the generation, storage, treatment, characterization, transportation, and disposal of nuclear materials and waste. The Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center is the Scientific Advisor to the DOE Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and conducted the site characterization and performance assessment of the site. The WIPP is the world's first, regulator-certified repository for the disposal of transuranic waste. The Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center is also a key participant in the DOE Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) science and regulatory program. The YMP is under investigation for the U.S. repository of commercial spent nuclear fuel and DOE high-level waste. Many other related projects complete the Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center, including work at the DOE Hanford Reservation, and with Russia, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. As a natural outgrowth of its work in nuclear waste management, the Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center is actively developing new techniques and materials for cleanup of a wide variety of environmental contaminants and building new risk-based tools for decision support.
The Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center consists of over 250 Sandians and contractors. The work is mainly organized by projects and customers. Support to the Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center is also provided by other organizations at Sandia, especially the Geoscience Research and Applications Group.
The Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center has offices across the United States. Most of the activity is conducted in Albuquerque at Sandia National Laboratories' main site. Approximately 75 people live in Carlsbad, NM and support the WIPP Site and related projects. Another group of Sandians reside in Las Vegas, NV and work on the YMP.
If you would like to know more about the Nuclear Energy and Global Security Technologies Center, please contact any of the people identified in the summaries found under projects or capabilities.
Sources and Types of Waste