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