The Applied Research Center (ARC), formerly known as the Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (HCET), was established in 1995 by Florida International University (FIU) and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science and Technology. ARC’s objective is to research, develop, and demonstrate innovative environmental technologies and to establish alliances between governments, industry, and academia that will continue to support the commercialization and implementation of these technologies.

At the Deactivation and Decommissioning Focus Area (DDFA), EM mission-supportive goals include developing, demonstrating, and deploying improved technologies and systems to solve customer-identified needs. The DDFA promotes sharing of experience, knowledge, information and lessons learned in decommissioning with cleanup project managers and other interested stakeholders in the D&D community. This is accomplished through multiple forums including workshops, publications, and electronic media.

In 1998, Department of Energy's DDFA designated FIU-ARC as it's central repository of D&D technology information. Since then, FIU-ARC's has developed a suite of integrated information systems, databases and decision-support tools that provide problem holders with up-to-date, reliable technology information. These systems enable users to search for available information on technologies and/or technological solutions to their project-specific problems.

This website was developed as a means to provide access to all these systems as well as issues, news and sites of interest to the D&D community. We would appreciate your comments.

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