Preliminary Investigation of Implementing an
Environmental Information System for the Pantex Facility
By Ye Maggie Ruan, MA, and David R. Maidment, Ph.D
ABSTRACT
The Pantex facility is America’s only nuclear weapon assembly
and disassembly site. Environmental and safety issues are of critical
importance for the Pantex facility and the surrounding region. An
Environmental Information System framework has been proposed to
help to study these issues.
In this report, the concept of the Environmental Information System
framework is introduced. The essential components of the Environmental
Information System are described in detail. The key component in
this framework is a spatial database, which describes the environment
of the Pantex facility and the surrounding region.
Preliminary investigations on some of the components of a Pantex
Environmental Information System are presented. These investigations
include 1) developing a spatial database that covers the Pantex
facility and the surrounding region and archiving the database in
CD-ROM format, 2) integrating MS Access as an external relational
database to ArcView, 3) investigating the feasibility of implementing
an Internet Map Server, and 4) setting up an research intranet for
Risk Assessment of Pantex Plutonium MOX Fuel Facility.
The information presented by a Pantex Environmental Information
System can assist the environmental and operational projects of
the Pantex facility, and also be beneficial for the general public
to understand the environmental issues related to Pantex.
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