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David HuizengaU.S. Department of Energy

Office of Environmental Management

AtomEco 2011 - Moscow, Russia

October 31, 2011


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We reduce risks and protect our workers, our communities and the environment through cleanup

Time is not on our side

costs and risks increase over time

We have made significant progress in the past two decades in reducing risksand the overall liability - but our work is not done

The Environmental Management portfolio is one of the largest liabilities for the

United States government

we have a responsibility to relieve future

generations of this environmental and financial liability

Department of Energy Environmental Management:Completing Cleanup of Five Decades of Nuclear Researchand Weapons Production

5,000+ facilities to decontaminate anddemolish

More than 10,000 groundwaterand soil sites to protect and

clean up

Enough nuclear waste to fillthe Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow,Russia


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Environmental Managements

Vast Cleanup Challenge

1989

Hanford SiteIdaho

National

Laboratory

West Valley

Demonstration

Project

Paducah Site

Oak Ridge

Savannah

River Site

Moab

Waste Isolation

Pilot Plant

EnvironmentalTechnology

Engineering Center

Nevada National

Security Site

Separations

Process

Research

Unit

Brookhaven National

Laboratory

Los Alamos

National

Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory

SLAC

Sandia National

Laboratory

Portsmouth

Site

EM 2011

Size of the EMProgram*

Original Current

Number of States 35 11

Number of Sites 110 17

*As of September 2011


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Treating 340.5M Liters (500 Million Curies) of

Radioactive Waste Stored in Steel Tanks

Hanford

176M curies;

200.5M Liters

Idaho

37M curies

Savannah River Site

379M curies; 140M Liters


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Hanford ~ 2130 mthm

Idaho ~280 mthm

Savannah

River Site~30 mthm

Fort St. Vrain~15 mthm

Safely Managing over 2400 Metric Tons

Spent/Used Nuclear Fuel

Total SNF/UNF packaged for disposition:

2,128 mthm

Life-cycle estimate:

2,450 mthm

Metric Tons Heavy Metal (MTHM)


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Variety of Special Nuclear Material

Savannah

River Site~13 MT Pu

Oak Ridge

~1400 kg

Portsmouth

~21,000 cylinders DUF6;

2120 mtu off-spec LEU

and NU

Paducah

41,700

cylinders

DUF6

*All values are as of September 2011


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Disposing over 150,000 Cubic Meters

Transuranic Waste

Hanford Site Idaho NationalLaboratory

Sandia National

Laboratory Savannah River Site

Materials FuelsComplex

Los AlamosNational

Laboratory

Oak RidgeNational

Laboratory

KAPL NuclearFuel Services

Argonne NationalLaboratory - East

NRD, LLC

West Valley

Knolls AtomicPower

Laboratory

Bettis AtomicPower

Laboratory

Babcock &Wilcox NES

Waste IsolationPilot Plant

Safe Loaded Km:

> 19,000,000

Shipments:

> 10,000

Life-cycle estimate:

158,968 m3Total dispositioned to date:

80,599 m3


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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant First PermanentGeologic Repository for Nuclear Waste in U.S.


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Remediating Soil and Groundwater

Contamination

Nearly 1,800 million cubic meters of groundwater

75 million cubic meters of soil

Contaminated by radioactive materials and

hazardous chemicals

Mercury

Chromium

Solvents

Technetium 99

Uranium

Advanced Simulation Capability for

Environmental Management (ASCEM)

High performance computer modeling

capability to improve the ability to predict the

fate of underground contaminants and

degradation of engineered materialscontributing to contaminant release.


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Includes industrial, nuclear and radioactive

contaminated buildings/facilities

Completed over 2,200 facilities with over 5.5M grosssquare meters remaining

Decontaminating and Decommissioning

Excess Facilities

EMs current life-cycle scope comprises over 5,000 facilities

P-Reactor at the Savannah River Site

West Wing of K-25 facility at Oak Ridgedemolished

over 78,000

gross square meters

Argonne

nuclear material removal and start of demolition of the Chicago

Pile-5

Reactor


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Collaborating with International Partners

RussiaRussia

UkraineUkraine

United KingdomUnited Kingdom

FranceFrance

CanadaCanada

ArgentinaArgentinaChinaChina

IndiaIndiaHungaryHungary

JapanJapan

South KoreaSouth Korea


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The UKs National Nuclear Laboratory invented the

RadBall

radiological sensitive polymer

Position and Orientation Determination System(PODSTM) and companion software developed atSavannah River National Laboratory to improve

utility of RadBall to remotely map contamination in a

facility

Successful demonstration at several DOE sites

Collaborating on Technological Advances with

International Partners

RadBall technology for characterization of radiological facilities

RadBall

and PODS

system TM


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Cold Crucible Induction Melter to advance waste glass processing

Collaborations with several countries to evaluate

CCIM as next-generation melter for DOE

applications

Testing in Russia provided the first

demonstration of CCIM potential

~40% increase in waste loading over current

levels

CCIM testing

at SIARadon and

St.

Petersburg

Electrotechni

cal Univ.

Collaborating on Technological Advances with

International Partners


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Summary

The DOE-EM cleanup mission is large

and complex

Significant progress has been made to

date

Major challenges remain in all areas of

cleanup

High level waste

Groundwater and soil Remediation

Nuclear materials Disposition

Deactivation and Decommissioning

Technological innovations are key

accelerating and cost effectively

completing the cleanup efforts

International collaborations play an

important role in development and

deployment of advancedtechnologies Rocky Flats: Before (top) and After (bottom)

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