CAMCON: Computer System for Assessing Regulatory Compliance of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Sandia National Laboratories is currently assessing whether the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) complies with the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Standards for the Management and Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level, and Transuranic Radioactive Wastes. Assessing compliance of a geologic repository requires the use of many different types of computer modeling programs. For this task, Sandia is developing a controller, CAMCON (Compliance Assessment Methodology CONtroller), which is a software package consisting of a suite of procedural files that control the flow of data between a computational data base and various modeling programs. CAMCON prompts the analyst for specifics about modeling needs, such as code name(s) and number of runs, thus providing a flexible, yet semi-automated framework in which analysts can select the code(s) best suited for a particular problem. CAMCON also incorporates quality assurance features.