Savannah River Site Overview - Energy

Savannah River Site Overview

• In 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission

asked Du Pont to undertake a new atomic

project, which became SRS

– Plutonium-239 and tritium production for

weapons program

– Other isotopes produced: Cf-252, Pu-238,

Am-241

• Original facilities included:

– 5 production reactors (C, K, L, P, R)

– 2 chemical separations plants (F&H

Canyons)

– Heavy water extraction plant (400-D)

– Nuclear fuel/target fabrication (300-M)

– Tank farms and waste management

facilities

• In 1992, EM assumed landlord

responsibilities

SRS is the only EM site with enduring missions in national security and home to the Savannah River National Laboratory

SRS History

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Savannah River Site by the Numbers

310sq.-mi site (198k acres) near Aiken, SC

current employee workforce (3/31/21)11,463

$1.7B

$2.6B

$121M

annual regional economic impact across

SC/GA area

FY21 enacted budget for EM only

spent annually in local procurements

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Partners and Missions

Who’s at SRS Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

Management and Operations;

Savannah River National Laboratory (until

transitioned to BSRA)

Battelle Savannah River Alliance

Management and Operations of the

Savannah River National Laboratory

(once transition complete)

Savannah River Remediation

Liquid Waste Operations

Parsons

Salt Waste Processing Facility

Centerra

SRS security

University of Georgia

Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

U.S. Forest Service–Savannah RiverFederal entity

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SRS Workforce Structure (Primary Tenants)

DOE-EM Environmental Management

U.S. Forest Service

Savannah River Remediation(SRR) Liquid Waste Operations

Parsons Salt Waste Processing Facility

(SWPF)

Centerra-SRSParamilitary Security

University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab

AmerescoBiomass Cogeneration Facility

DOE-NNSANational Nuclear Security

Administration

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)

Management & Operating (M&O) Nuclear Materials Management • SRNL

EM Cleanup (excl. Liquid Waste) Landlord Services • NNSA Activities

SRS Total Workforce = 11,463 Data as of: 3/31/21

KeyFederal Agency (incl. Support Contr.)

355

70

2,751

445

672

23

123

130

6,878

Work Volume – FY 202060% EM

32% NNSA8% WFO Contractor

Office of Inspector General16


Nuclear Defense

Tritium Technology

Homeland Security

Nonproliferation

Nuclear Forensics

Waste Treatment

Waste Form Development

Remediation and Cleanup

Nuclear Facility Decommissioning

Technologies

Assessments and Verification

National Security Energy SecurityEnvironmental Stewardship

Electrical Grid Security

Nuclear Materials Management

Materials Stabilization and Disposition

Spent Fuel Management

Plutonium Technology

Glass technology Radiation detection Spent Fuel Management

Hydrogen Production and Storage

Nuclear Fuel Cycle R&D

Renewable Energy Research

SRS-EM Key Major Prime Contracts

M & O

Liquid Waste Stabilization & Disposition Protective ForcesSavannah River

National

Laboratory

Nuclear

Material

Solid

Waste

Soil & Water

Facility D&D

Landlord

Services

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Savannah River RemediationSalt Waste Processing Facility

Centerra-SRSParsons Government Services

Type: Cost Plus Award Fee

Scope: Site Management & Operations

Award Value: $8.0 B (includes base + fee + option 1 & 2)

Current Value: $14.7 B (includes award value + non-

appropriated + ARRA + contract extension 1 & 2)

Performance Period: 8/1/08-9/30/21 (One-year option to

extend.)

Major Pending Changes: AIPT Team initiated for follow on

contract. Draft RFP issued April 2021

Fee-Bearing Milestones: Various (PEMP).

Type: Cost Plus Award Fee (Annualized

Award Fee)

Scope: Treatment & Disposal of Liquid

Waste at SRS

Award Value: $3.3 B (includes base contract

+ fee + options 1 & 2)

Current Value: $7.4 B (includes award value

+ ARRA + Supplemental Salt Initiative +

Contract Extensions 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)

Performance Period: 3/30/09-9/30/21; (plus

(3) three, (4) four-month options)

Major Pending Changes:

• Integrated Mission Completion

Contract – Proposals Received.

Project award by end of FY21.

• Extension 5 Mod Executed: 9/28/20.

Fee-Bearing Milestones: Various (PEMP);

subjective & objective milestones.

Type: Cost Plus Incentive Fee

Scope: Salt Waste Processing Facility

Award Value: $328,445,235

Current Value: $2.3 B

Award Date: 9/17/02

Performance Period: No fixed

performance period. Hot commissioning &

1-year operations commenced mid-January

2021. After OYO SWPF ops transition to

LW contractor.

Fee-Bearing Milestones: DCPT,

Declaration of Readiness for DOE to

commence ORR, Key Personnel Incentive,

Construction Complete Fee ($10M Fee

holdover once CD-4 is accomplished). Post

CD-4 processing fee dependent on volume

processed.


Scope: Paramilitary & Security

Services

Award Value: $989,012,019

Current Value: $1,024,829,498

Performance Period: 10/8/09-

10/7/21

Major Pending Changes:

Awarded February 12, 2021 to

SRS Critical Infrastructure

Security, LLC, (SCIS); 5-year

base & options for additional 5

years

Fee-Bearing Milestone: N/A

(100% Subjective Award Fee).


Scope: M&O for Laboratory

Operations

Award Value: $3.8B over 10 years

Current Value: ~$400M/year

Performance Period: 5-year Base +

five 1-year options

Major Pending Changes: Awarded

in Dec 2020 to Battelle Savannah

River Alliance (BSRA)

Fee-Bearing Milestones: TBD

Savannah River FY 2021 Enacted

(dollars in thousands)

FY 2019 Enacted FY 2020 Enacted FY 2021 Enacted

Defense Environmental Cleanup

Savannah River Site

Savannah River Risk Management OperationsSR-0011C - Nuclear Material 332,947 360,558 349,724

SR-0013 - Solid Waste 41,425 43,825 50,071

SR-0030 - Soil and Water 73,612 65,508 56,412

SR-0041 - Risk Red Deact & Surv and Maint 28,390 26,324 27,264

SR-0042 - Infrastructure and Land Mgt 13,086 10,151 16,529

489,460 506,366 500,000

Construction:18-D-402 Emergency Operations Center Replacement, SR 1,259 6,792 6,500

19-D-701 SR Security System Replacement 10,000 4,525 1,000

20-D-402 Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative Facility (AMC) 0 25,000 25,000

11,259 36,317 32,500

Total, Savannah River Risk Management Operations 500,719 542,683 532,500

Savannah River Community and Regulatory SupportSR-0100 - Comm. & Reg. 11,249 11,249 11,549

Radioactive Liquid Tank Waste Stabilization and DispositionSR-0014C - Tank Waste 696,869 820,106 910,832

Construction:05-D-405 - Salt Waste Proc. Fac. 130,000 21,200 0

17-D-402 - Saltstone Disposal Unit #7 41,243 40,034 10,716

18-D-402 Saltstone disposal unit 8 9 7,577 20,000 65,500

20-D-401 Saltstone Disposal Unit 10 11 12 0 500 562

178,820 81,734 76,778

Total, Radioactive Liquid Tank Waste Stabilization and Disposition875,689 901,840 987,610

Subtotal, Savannah River 1,387,657 1,455,772 1,531,659

Safeguards and SecuritySR-0020 - S&S 163,357 174,152 171,211

Total, Savannah River 1,551,014 1,629,924 1,702,870

Five Year Plan FY2021-2025

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Liquid Waste (LW) Program

SRS currently stores over 35 million gallons of liquid radioactive waste (primarily from legacy production and operations) in aging underground tanks. The LW mission is to safely store,

process, treat and dispose of the treated waste. Facilities include: F-Area and H-Area Tank Farms (TF), Salt Waste

Processing Facility (SWPF), Defense Waste Processing Facility

(DWPF), Glass Waste Storage Buildings (GWSB), Saltstone Production Facility (SPF), Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF) and

Effluent Treatment Facility (ETF). Primary goals are listed below.

• Work with regulatory agencies and meet commitments• Continue to maintain capability to receive up to 300,000

gallons of waste from H-Canyon operations

Preparation of over a dozen tanks per year for waste removal to prepare necessary feed to support SWPF operations

• Perform waste concentration, removal & transfer operations

Process salt waste through SWPF at a rate of up to 9 million gallons per year, by implementing NGS by 2023

• Process salt waste through Tank Closure Cesium Removal

Unit to expedite closure of older-style tanks• Vitrify salt and sludge high-level waste in DWPF at a rate to

optimize SWPF production

• Optimize storage of DWPF canisters in the GWSBs through double stacking operations

• Treat the low-activity salt waste in the SPF at a rate to

optimize SWPF productionSteady construction of Saltstone Disposal Units (SDUs) at

SDF to ensure availability to support SWPF operations

• Operate H Canyon safely and efficiently to implement the Accelerated Basin Deinventory

mission (up to 18 dissolutions/yr.)• Receive foreign and domestic NM to

support US nonproliferation program.

• Maintain K-Area to safely and securely store special nuclear

material and disposition surplus plutonium to support SC settlement agreement

• Safe storage for EM-owned spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in L-Area BasinMaintain excess NM facilities for

turnover to be D&D• Maintain safe storage of Heavy Water

awaiting a disposition strategy

Environmental Cleanup and Facility Deactivation and Decommissioning

SRS is employing cost-effective remedial technologies to treat or immobilize the

source of contamination, cap waste

sites, monitor and operate efficient groundwater corrective actions, and close inactive seepage basins, rubble

pits, rubble piles, and D&D excessed facilities. Primary goals are listed below.

Utilize the new Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative facility at USC-Aiken to develop innovative

advanced manufacturing solutions to accelerate EM cleanup, reduce costs and shorten schedules

• Expand the utilization of the Savannah River Site for testing,

evaluation and training for US Government componentsDevelop and apply innovative, next-

generation processing technologies for disposition of excess nuclear materials

• Advance high-performance computing capabilities

• Develop Cyber solutions to protect

the Nation’s critical infrastructure

• Cleanup contaminated soils and water in accordance with applicable state and federal regulatory

requirements• Continue to operate active/passive

systems to remediate 14

Groundwater plumes• Complete D&D activities at Process

Heat Exchanger Repair Facility (690-N Ford Building)Continue D&D activities in support of

Accelerated Closure of D-Area• Conduct remedial investigation for D-

Area Groundwater

• Begin remedial actions in Lower Three Runs Integrator Operable UnitIssue remedial decision for A-Area

Ash Pile


SRNL creates practical, cost-effective solutions for cleaning up nuclear waste, keeping our

nation safe, and advancing our nation’s energy and manufacturing objectives. Unique facilities

include the nation’s only radioactive crime investigation lab, labs for safe study and

handling of radioactive materials and ultra-sensitive measurement/analysis of radioactive materials, and demonstration sites for testing

environmental cleanup technologies.

Nuclear Materials (NM) Program

Unique facilities enable transformation of NMs to forms acceptable for safe disposition or commercial use. NM

missions include disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium and Plutonium, and

processing of foreign and domestic

Research Reactor Receipts. Facilities are located within F, H, K and L Areas.

Primary goals are listed below.

Environmental Restoration

SRNL Shielded Cells SRNL 773-APu Operations in

KIS GloveboxK Area

9975 Pu Storage

2020 Accomplishments 2021 Priorities

✓ Completed the Canadian Liquid HEU mission, completed transfers of Sodium Research Experiment (SRE) to HLW, and dissolved 6 SNF batches in H-Canyon

✓ HB-Line was placed in a lay-up state

✓ Completed the K-Interim Surveillance (KIS) glovebox optimization outage and downblended thirty 3013s -FY20 PBI Extended to 11/30 due to COVID-19

✓ L-Area received 19 DRR receipts and shipped 7 casks to H-Canyon

✓ Completed 235-F DNFSB Implementation Plan Actions

• Dissolve 8.5 batches of SNF through H-Canyon

• Downblend a total of sixty-nine (69) 3013s (increase of 53 from FY20)

• Receive 19 DRR shipments

• Continue 235-F deactivation/Negotiate end-state with Regulators

Nuclear Materials

2020 Accomplishments 2021 Priorities

✓ DWPF poured 8 canisters and double stacked 358 canisters in GWSB #1

✓ Completed bulk waste removal in Tank 10 using TCCR Unit #1

✓ Completed activities to initiate salt feed transfers to, and receive three effluent streams from, SWPF for treatment in DWPF or Saltstone

✓ Shipped ten 3-liter samples of DWPF recycle wastewater to WCS demonstrating the new HLW definition interpretation

✓ Commenced Hot Commissioning of SWPF

✓ Prepared for SWPF S/U & Processed 711K gal of DSS in saltstone

✓ SDU 7 construction on schedule

✓ SDU 8 Construction activities in progress; SDU 9 site prep activities complete

• Completed SWPF Hot Commissioning (320K gallons processed; initiated “One-Year Operations” (511K gallons processed to date)

• Produce 114 canisters through DWPF

• Implement Cement-Free Saltstone operations

• Achieve CD-4 on SDU 7

• Maintain construction schedule SDU 8 & 9

• Process Batch 1 from Tank 9 via TCCR Unit #1

• Initiate heel removal on Tank 15 -older style tank that is partially submerged in water table

• Issue Liquid Waste System Plan, Revision 22

Liquid Waste/SWPF/Saltstone

2020 Accomplishments 2021 PrioritiesSolid Waste

✓ 95% complete for legacy TRU waste removal; first TRUPACT-III since 2014

✓ Installation of Central Characterization Program (CCP) Equipment in E Area

✓ Issued Closure Certification Report for the Solvent Storage Tanks

Soil & Water Remediation & Facility D&D

✓ Decommissioned 4 Gold Metric facilities and completed remediation of 1 waste unit.

✓ Met all 76 planned regulatory commitments in FFA & RCRA Permit

✓ Continued acceleration of D-Area Operable Unit D&D of ancillary structures


✓ Technical support to achieve mission goals related to Liquid High-Level Waste disposition

✓ Served as the lead for the EM National Laboratory Network supporting the EM Technology Development Program

Solid Waste

• Complete 10 shipments of TRU waste to WIPP

• Complete the E Area Performance Assessment Revision

Soil & Water Remediation & Facility D&D

• Execute 78 enforceable FFA/RCRA commitments

• Continue acceleration of D-Area Operable Unit D&D of ancillary structures


• Complete transition to new SRNL M&O Contractor

• Award contract for design and construction of AMC (Land lease signed)

• Complete replacement of B-Block Shielded Cell Windows

• Complete lab modification and transfer F/H Laboratories to SRNL Main Lab

• Potential Fuel Fabrication Demonstration

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