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DOE-IETU Project

DOE-IETU Joint Coordinating Committee for Environmental Science (JCCES)

JCCES project team inspecting Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas bioreactors.

Dr. Kuperberg (left) investigating tree-kill areas downgradient of Savannah River Site burial grounds.

The U.S. Department of Energy/Office of Environmental Management/Office of Science and Technology (DOE), the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU) in Katowice, Poland and Center for Biomedical and Toxicological Research have been cooperating on the development and implementation of innovative environmental remediation technologies since 1995. The project is conducted under the DOE's Joint Coordinating committee for Environmental Systems. The objective of this cooperative activity is to use expertise and technologies developed in Central and Eastern Europe to address environmental problems within the DOE complex. The following areas of cooperation currently are under development:
1. Biologically-based technologies to remove toxic heavy metals (e.g., lead, mercury) from soil,
2. Biologically-based and chemically based methods to stabilize contaminants in soil,
3. Implementation of bioremediation for the cleanup of petroleum contaminated soil, and
4. Modification of the petroleum contaminated soil bioreactor to treat chlorinated solvent contaminated soil.

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