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Sandia Field OfficeAnalytical Services Program Workshop

Geoff Beausoleil, SFO

September 16, 2014

Albuquerque, New Mexico Livermore, California

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,Carlsbad, New Mexico

Pantex Plant,Amarillo, Texas

Tonopah,Nevada

Kauai, Hawaii

Sandia’s Sites

Sandia’s Discipline-Based Research Foundations

Materials

Engineeringsciences

Microelectronics

High energy density physicsComputing science

Bioscience

Geoscience

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Sandia’s Capabilities

• High-reliability engineering• Sensors and sensing systems• Cyber technology• Reverse engineering• Micro- & nano- electronics and systems• Modeling & simulation and experiment • Natural and engineered materials• Pathfinders• Safety, risk, and vulnerability analysis

Sandia’s Operations• 45 major test facilities • 2,718 labs spanning over

39% of our square footage

• 1,958 light labs • Wide-range of hazards

including:– Radioactive/nuclear– Explosives/ammo– Chemicals– And of course slips, trips

and falls…

Z Machine

Annular Core Research Reactor

(ACRR)

Rocket Sled Track

Lightning Test Facility

Thermal Test Complex

Major Facilities and Tools• Inertial Test Lab• Abnormal Thermal

Environment Lab• Climatic Lab• Annular Core Research Reactor

(ACRR)• Blast Tube• Inertial Test Lab• Centrifuge Complex• Weapons Evaluation Test• Cross-Flow Test Fire Facility• Aerial Cable Facility• Drop Tower Facility• Light Initiated High Explosive

Facility • Electromagnetics Test Facility

(TEMPEST)• Climatic Lab (TEMPEST)• Environmental Lab (TEMPEST)

• Explosive Machining Facility (TEMPEST)

• FARM (Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurements)

• Thermal Test Complex Burn Facility

• Tonopah Test Range Flight• Tonopah Test Range Ground

Penetration• Weapons Evaluation Test• Flight Test Assembly• Gamma Irradiation Facility• Mobile Gun Complex• Shock Thermodynamics Applied

Research Lab• Modal/Vibe/Shock Vibration

Lab• Water Impact Facility• Normal Thermal Environment

Lab

Aerospace laboratories (High Altitude Chamber, Ion Beam Lab, Lightning Effects Facility, Mass Properties Lab, Modal and Structural Dynamics, Structural Mechanics Lab …)

Radiant Heat Test Cell Radiation Metrology Non Destructive Evaluation Lab RF and Optics Microsystem Z Pulsed Power Facility Hermes-III Gamma-Ray Facility Saturn SPHINX Solid Mechanics Lab Mechanics of Materials Terminal Ballistic Facility Centrifuge Complex Vibration Lab …

Types of Hazards– Mechanical– Electrical– Chemicals– Fire Protection/Thermal

Hazards– Pressure/Vacuum– Radioactive/Fissile/Nuclear– Biological– Ozone Depletion– Drinking Water– Beryllium

– Noise– Lasers/Non-Ionizing

Radiation– X-Ray Devices– Explosives &

Ammunition– Confined Space– Working at Heights– Heavy Object

Ergonomics & Lifting– …

SNL Need for Analytical Services

• Similar to other DOE sites, there is a need to have access to analytical services

• Within the DOE family, it makes sense to leverage resources (and contracts)

• Use of external laboratories provides an independent analysis, enhancing credibility with regulators and the public

• For “smaller” sites such as SNL, outsourcing analyses can be more cost-effective than developing and maintaining internal analytical capabilities

SNL Analytical ServicesSNL has four contractual agreements for off-site commercial analytical laboratory environmental data services ($560K total). Each affects multiple DOE Users• GEL Laboratories, Charleston SC • Test America Laboratories, Richland WA • Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio TX • Hall Analysis Laboratory, Albuquerque NM

Importance of Knowing Analytical Data is Defensible

• DOE must have confidence and understanding of data pedigree

• Having defensible environmental data to support our field decisions is imperative to our operational activities, and maintaining public trust and credibility.

• Really don’t want to find out our data is suspect from our stakeholders or the media

• DOECAP efforts helps leverage resources across the DOE to perform reviews and assessments

Example of DOECAP Help

Several years ago the American Radiation Services (ARS) Albuquerque laboratory which had gone bankrupt • ARS supported several DOE sites (Portsmouth, SNL,

LANL, and INL)• They had several thousand environmental

samples/waste that needed to be preserved• DOECAP provided excellent assistance to secure

samples and fostering field managers risk reductions

Example of DOECAP Help: Benefits to Sandia of ICPT BOA

• Reduction in procurement times• Guaranteed affordable pricing for analytical

services• Securing contracts with high-performing

laboratories• High-quality data that meets regulatory

requirements

Example of Site-Specific Benefit: Sandia Groundwater Program

• DOECAP audits laboratories at the system level, enhancing credibility• This allows Sandia to focus oversight efforts on unique, programmatic, and

site-specific data quality and regulatory issues (“chasing the ghosts”)• Complex combination subsurface environment and wide range of

constituents• High public visibility with respect to quality of data• Data and documentation must be legally and technically defensible,

especially when results are at or near levels of detection• Example: Spurious toluene detections in wells across Sandia were found

not to represent groundwater contamination after an extensive review of quality control data