This panel featured presentations from the US and Non-US communities on: 1) New approaches for performance assessments, multimedia risk assessments and multi-attribute decisional analyses in support of remedy selection for environmental cleanup and closure projects. 2) Developments in methodologies and tools for multimedia environmental modeling, particularly data management and visualization (conceptual model and data) uncertainty quantification, and dose calculations. 3) Integration of performance/risk assessment models into life cycle cost analyses, and 4) Integration of monitoring and modeling approaches for the purpose of validating multimedia environmental models and optimizing environmental monitoring.

Panelists included: Bill Levitan, US DOE - EM; Boby Abu Eid, US NRC; Magnus Vesterlind, IAEA (Austria); Stuart Walker, US EPA; and Paul Black, Neptune and Company, Inc.