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The Risk and Decision Sciences Group is part of the Health Effects and Risk Sciences Division in the Environmental Technology Directorate (ETD) of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The group has and continues to perform systems, decision and risk analysis and customer service model activities in support of:

• The Hanford site
• Department of Home Land Security
• DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
• Department of Defense
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• Commercial clients

The RDS vision for the future is to enable the application of PNNL fundamental science missions and laboratory engineering signatures through increased access and value from environmental systems biology and advanced systems analysis:

• Integrated modeling and data management technologies on high performance computing platforms
• Information visualization and derivation for application to human health and environmental risk assessment
• Automation and visualization of health risk assessments
• Continued development of integrated risk assessment tools
• Automation of systems analysis techniques
• Complex Environmental and System Decision Support
• Life cycle models and project risk assessment
• Technology assessment and deployment decisions
• Safety and risk assessment of engineered systems