Department of Energy FY 2012 Congressional ... - The FIRE Place

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• At LANL, activities include material stabilization/decontamination/repackaging, nuclear
materials information management, the Special Recovery Line, a small amount of generic
criticality safety support, and nuclear materials planning and reporting.
• At the SRS Tritium Extraction Facility, activities include recovery and purification of tritium,
deuterium, and helium-3 gases from reservoir recycle gas, hydride storage vessels, and facility
effluent cleanup systems. Gas mixtures are enriched to support the DSW schedules.
• At Y-12, activities include uranium purification and conversion to UO3, acid removal and waste
processing, conversion of enriched uranium oxide to metal buttons, material transport and
storage, processing enriched uranium chips and scraps, chemical conversion of lithium, salvage
operations, and filter teardowns. All of these activities are required to provide materials needed
for Stockpile Stewardship programs and to ensure safe and secure handling of materials on-site.
In addition, Y-12 MRR includes deactivation of Building 9206 and operation of the Central
Scrap Management Office that manages the receipt, storage, and shipment of enriched uranium
scrap and the Precious Metals Business Center that provides a cost effective service to many
users within the DOE complex.
Containers 23,321 27,992 28,979
The RTBF containers provides for shipping container research and development, design,
certification, re-certification, test and evaluation, production and procurement, fielding and
maintenance, decontamination and disposal, and off-site transportation authorization of shipping
containers for nuclear materials and components supporting both the nuclear weapons program and
nuclear materials consolidation. New container systems such as the DPP-1, DPP-3, ES-4100, and
9977/9978 are being developed to improve safety, security, ability to be maintained, meet updated
regulatory requirements, and accept a broader array of contents to minimize the number of
specialized containers that have to be maintained. These efforts include efficiencies provided by
close coordination of planning and operations with users/customers. Supports the emphasis on
nuclear material consolidation, and de-inventory activities to ensure needed transportation
containers are certified and available to accommodate proposed material movements. This includes
supporting the de-inventory of LLNL Category I and II nuclear materials through the certification
and supply of containers. DSW also provides support for container activity when weapon system
scope exceeds the level initially identified by the container subprogram.
Storage 24,558 24,233 31,272
The RTBF storage provides for effective storage and management of national security and surplus
pits, HEU, and other weapons and nuclear materials. Funding includes the cost of receipt, storage,
and inventory of nuclear materials, non-nuclear materials, HEU, enriched lithium, and components
from dismantled warheads. Storage also provides programmatic planning for nuclear material
requirements, including analysis, forecasting, and reporting functions, as well as emergent analyses
of nuclear materials as designated by the NNSA and others. The Nuclear Materials Integration
Weapons Activities/
Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities Page 154
FY 2012 Congressional Budget