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Savannah River SiteStatus Report
DOECAP Analytical Services Program 2014 Workshop
Ken Guay, (DOE SR Program Manager)
September 15 - 18, 2014
Albuquerque, NM
ASP 2014 Workshop
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Savannah River Site (SRS) Introduction
• Site History and Scope• Current Activities • SRS Participation in
DOECAP
K Area Cooling Tower Demolition
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SRS Size Comparison
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SRS – Site History and Scope
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SRS produced and recovered nuclear materials
SRS produced about 36 metric tons of plutonium from 1953-1988.
SRS facilities• Five reactors• Two chemical separations plants• Heavy water extraction plant• Nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility• Waste management facilities
Tritium Plutonium 238 Plutonium 239
The end of the Cold War meant a completely different philosophy and approach to the nuclear arsenal.
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Savannah River Site Organizations• Federal Government:• DOE: Savannah River Operations Office
- Environmental Management (EM) - National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• U.S. Forest Service (USFS)• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Contractors:•Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS)Site Management & Operations and Savannah River National Laboratory•Savannah River Remediation (SRR): Liquid Waste Operations•Parsons: Salt Waste Processing Facility construction and operations•Ameresco: Biomass Cogeneration Plant•Wackenhut (WSI): Security•Shaw AREVA: Mixed Oxide Fuel (MOX) Fabrication Facility construction and operations•University of Georgia: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Total Employees: 11,371 as of 8/20/2014
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Savannah River Nuclear SolutionsSRNS is the Management and Operating contractor for DOE’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, SC
• Provide nuclear materials management to support national defense and U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts
• Support the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by extracting tritium and delivering products to military and weapons design agencies
• Develop and deploy environmental cleanup technologies
• Conduct technology Research and Development on national energy independence initiatives
• Operate the Savannah River National Laboratory
• General Site Services (transportation; roads; maintenance)
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Savannah River National Laboratory
Clean Energy
Nuclear DefensePlutonium Technology
Homeland Security Nonproliferation
Nuclear Forensics
Hydrogen Production and Storage
Nuclear Fuel Cycle R&DRenewable Energy
ResearchSmall Modular Reactors
Waste TreatmentMaterials Stabilization
and DispositionRemediation and Cleanup
Assessments and Verification
National Security Clean EnergyEnvironmental Stewardship
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SRNS EM Missions• Used nuclear fuel storage, receipt,
and disposition• Special nuclear material
consolidation, processing, and disposition
• Area Closures – Soil and Groundwater
remediation • Transuranic and mixed/ low-level
waste disposition• Infrastructure maintenance and
upgrades• Analytical Laboratories
K Area Materials Storage
H Canyon Control Room
H Canyon
TRU Waste Shipment
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SRS NNSA Missions• Tritium operations and extraction
– Continue to recover and recycle tritium from existing weapons
– Deliver high quality reservoirs on schedule
– Expand tritium capability– Deliverables
• Surveillance• Loading• Unloading (Extraction, Recycle)• Helium 3
• Non-proliferation– Waste Solidification Building
• Uranium blending and shipping
• Foreign fuel receiptsUsed fuel being unloaded in Charleston, S.C.
Waste Solidification Building
Tritium Operations
Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF)
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Savannah River Remediation (SRR)• Liquid Waste Contractor• Contract focus:
– Managing 37 million gallons of radioactive liquid tank waste to be treated and stabilized for final disposition
– Emptying, cleaning and closing radioactive waste tanks
– Operating major nuclear facilities to treat and dispose of waste
– SRS is the only DOE site processing salt waste
Saltcake SludgeSalt Supernate Safely Stored
Transporting canisters from DWPF to the Glass Waste Storage Building
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SRR Facilities
• DWPF Glass Waste Storage Buildings
- GWSB 1 contains 2,244 canisters- GWSB 2 currently contains 800 canisters (capacity for 2,340)
• Underground reinforced concrete vaults
• Seismically qualified • Designed for safe interim storage
Interim Storage of CanistersDefense Waste Processing FacilitySaltstone Production Facility
• Little waste volume goes here, but almost all curies dispositioned at DWPF
• World’s largest vitrification plant• Over 3,000 canisters filled. DWPF
has poured more than 11.7 million gallons of glassified waste
• Entire 37 million gallons of waste in the tanks awaiting disposition has about 340 million curies of radioactivity
• Vast majority of waste volume from tanks – but few curies – are left in SC
• Those left in SC are disposed at the Saltstone Production Facility– Safely stabilizes low-level
radioactive liquid salt wastes– Salt solution stabilized by mixing it
with cement, fly ash and slag – Resulting grout mixture is
mechanically pumped into concrete disposal units, called Saltstone Disposal Facility
– Grout solidifies into non-hazardous low-radioactive waste form called “saltstone”
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SRR ProjectsSDU 6 – Saltstone Disposal Unit
Objective: Enable system plan throughput capacity; dispositioning decontaminated salt solution/grout through the Saltstone Disposal Facility (SDF)
Scope: 30 million gallon capacity (AWWA D110 Type I) disposal cell and supporting balance of plant infrastructure.
TPC: $ 143M, EAC: $ 123.6M, FY14 funding: $ 28M
Schedule: CD-4 11/30/18
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ParsonsSalt Waste Processing Facility Contractor
•This facility will… - Reduce radioactive waste
volume requiring vitrification- Separate low volume/high activity
from high volume/low activity waste- Transfer high activity waste to DWPF- Transfer low activity waste to
Saltstone Facility
•Salt waste solutions are currently being processed through interim salt disposition facilities with noted success
Construction of SWPF is more than 70 percent complete.
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Ameresco
Construction of 34-acre Biomass Cogeneration Facility
Unloading bio-derived fuels at the Ameresco facility
Built and Operate Biomass Cogeneration Facility
•Single largest renewable Energy Savings Performance Contract in nation’s history•Replaced coal powerhouse and oil-fired boilers•Clean biomass of forest residue, wood chips, tires•Started construction September 2009•First wood chips delivered August 2011•Operational by mid December 2011
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SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use
Analytical Projected Use
Type SRS (FY15) SRS (FY16) Com (FY15) Com (FY16) Bioassay 100 % 100 % 0 0Industrial 95 % 95 % 5 % 5 %
HygieneNPDES 35 % 35 % 65 % 65 %Environmental 95 % 95 % 5 % 5 %RCRA/CERCLA 25 % 25 % 75 % 75 %Waste Charac. 5 % 5 % 95 % 95 %
Percentages represent number of samples
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SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use
Commercial Lab Expenditures
* Expenditures are speculative until specific contracts are finalized.
Type of Service $ Annually•RCRA/CERCLA 1.1 MM•Waste 100K•NPDES/Environmental 140K•Industrial Hygiene 5K
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SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use
Future Analytical Needs and Procured Services• One laboratory purchased by another company and no
longer a DOECAP participant. • Continue existing level of laboratory support for baseline
activities.
Future TSDF Needs and Procured ServicesThe Solid Waste Baseline has mixed waste management activities forecasted through 2031. SRNS has planned to support five DOECAP TSDF audits.
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SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use
Key SRS Personnel Associated with DOECAP
Laboratory – • Gail Whitney, Federal Point of Contact (POC)•Ben Terry, Contractor POC
TSDF – • Herbert (Bert) Crapse, Federal POC• Ken Guay, Asst. Federal POC/DOECAP Auditor• Dennis Knapp, Contractor POC/Lead Auditor
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SRS – DOECAP Participation/Projected Use
Current & Future TSDF Needs
(Expenditures are speculative until specific contracts are finalized)
Facility FY15$
FY16$
Energy Solutions – Utah $815,100 $815,100
Materials and Energy Corporation (M&EC) $167,619 $167,619
Diversified Scientific Services, Inc. (DSSI) $173,333 $130,000
Perma-Fix Florida (PFF) $407,143 $271,429
Clean Harbors (RCRA/CERCLA waste/non rad) $77,257 $74,286
Waste Control Specialists LLC $525,000 $70,000
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SRS – Questions