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Environmental Management ProgramEnvironmental Management ProgramCleanup of Legacy SitesCleanup of Legacy Sites
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)