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Fall 2006
Volume 8, No. 3

SANDIA TECHNOLOGY

Report faces future energy challenges

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Energy surety takes an integrated approach to achieving safety, security, reliability, recoverability and sustainability objectives for the nation’s civilian and military energy systems. Patterned after Sandia’s application of surety principles to weapons systems over several decades, the approach includes choosing the best mix of fuels and applying conservation principles to all steps, starting with energy production and ending with final use. The approach even uses what would normally be characterized as waste heat and mass.

Margie Tatro, director of Energy, Infrastructure and Knowledge Systems Center, Rush Robinett, a senior manager in the center, and others in the center have designed the new model and detailed it in a recently-released internal report: Toward an Energy Surety Future.

Tatro says that, in developing the energy surety approach, “the sustainability model was the most difficult to create because sustainability was not a system requirement in the original weapons system surety approach.”