The development of a waste inventory database and waste treatment technology and the evaluation of the feasibility of each technology and the total system of waste management requires a team composed of system engineers, researchers,

and implementers from the start of R&D. The authors propose an R&D implementation and evaluation team (Fig. 28.2). The role of each member is as follows: researchers conduct laboratory-scale cold and hot tests for collecting basic information on waste inventory and treatment technology, implementers carry out engineering-scale cold and hot tests for commercializing the technol­ogy, and system engineers carry out the system design and cost evaluation of the technology to evaluate the feasibility of the technology. The members of the team should work together on R&D and to check whether the data obtained are sufficient for all members. As a result of this collaboration, it is expected that sufficient data will be obtained to pursue the next phase of testing and to transfer the technical knowledge smoothly to other members. Because the engineering — scale test will be conducted by the implementers, education and training of future operators will be also performed. The team should also evaluate the storage, transportation, and disposal technology. For this purpose, system engineers who perform these evaluations should be involved.