and reduces data from ASSESS, and existing DOE PC-based security systems performance analysis tool. The costs side of the …Essential to a systems approach to design of security systems is an analysis of the cost effectiveness of alternative …. PACAIT--Performance and Cost Analysis Integrated Tools--is a prototype tool. The performance side of the analysis collates …

Implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) has provided a unique challenge for Federal … Agencies, such as the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Waste Management (OWM). While performance measurement, as required … operations for some time. There has been significant discussion about how the private sector uses performance measures, but there …

The development of a performance assessment (PA) for low-level radioactive waste disposal operations at Oak Ridge … in the preparation of the PA including the technical difficulties associated with performance assessment in Oak Ridge and … relate to the application of current performance objectives to older disposal facilities, which are being addressed as part …

appear to influence safety performance in some systematic way, (2) Should organizational factors research focus at the plant …

inventory verification. This paper describes the instrument performance under plant conditions with various background …

a performance- based decision-aiding tool to provide an analytical basis for planning, prioritizing, and selecting … Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) long-term performance regulations. SPM calculates the probabilities of certain sets of …

portions of the applicable US EPA long-term performance regulations. The first iteration of SPM (SPM-1), the prototype for SPM …

In developing its recommendations on performance assessment for disposal of low-level radioactive waste, Scientific … provide a context for the development of suitable approaches to performance assessment. This paper summarizes the Committee … application to low-level waste, (3) current performance objectives for low-level waste disposal in the US, with particular …

In March 1994, the US Department of Energy Carlsbad Area Office (DOE/CAO) implemented a performance based decision … of activities in terms of their predicted contribution to long-term performance of the WIPP disposal system; and (3 …) analyze cost, duration, and performance tradeoffs. SPM results were the basis for activities recommended to DOE/CAO in May …

confidence in performance assessments (PAs) for radioactive waste disposal projects. This has resulted in a number of … the model development and parameterization of the PA system. The Performance Assessment Support System (PASS) is a … support management decisions and to assess performance for the WIPP recertification process. This desk-top PA environment is …