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additional alternatives for disposition of certain non-pit plutonium materials currently in safe storage at
the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina. In addition, DOE will analyze, in the SPD
Supplemental EIS, the potential environmental impacts of using MOX fuel in up to five reactors owned
by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) at the Sequoyah (near Soddy-Daisy, TN) and Browns Ferry
(near Athens, AL) nuclear stations. The TVA is a cooperating agency with DOE for preparation and
review of the sections of the SPD Supplemental EIS that address operation of TVA reactors.
Responding to the TVA stated interest in using MOX fuel assemblies in its three Browns Ferry Boiling
Water Reactors (BWR), DOE is evaluating changes to the MOX facility design that will allow
production of BWR MOX fuel in addition to the current MOX facility design for Pressurized Water
Reactor (PWR) MOX fuel. Supplying BWR MOX fuel to the Browns Ferry BWR’s would account for
50 percent of the MOX facility’s production. The design changes are straightforward and would be
based on known designs from the French reference plant which currently is producing both BWR and
PWR MOX fuel. The proposed changes will also allow the MOX program to produce and market MOX
fuel based on the designs of several fuel vendors. The DOE is also evaluating a change to the MOX
facility design to use depleted uranium feed material prepared using the latest “dry” fabrication process
versus the baselined “wet” fabrication process. These design modifications will be part of a project
Baseline Change Proposal to be submitted in FY 2011.
2. Design, Construction, and D&D Schedule
(fiscal quarter or date)
PED
D&D
CD-0 CD-1 Complete CD-2 CD-3 CD-4 D&D Start Complete
FY 2000 N/A 2QFY1999 4QFY2001 N/A 1QFY2002 4QFY2005 N/A N/A
FY 2001 N/A 2QFY1999 3QFY2002 N/A 4QFY2002 1QFY2006 N/A N/A
FY 2002 N/A 2QFY1999 4QFY2002 N/A 2QFY2003 1QFY2007 N/A N/A
FY 2003 N/A 2QFY1999 4QFY2003 N/A 2QFY2004 4QFY2007 N/A N/A
FY 2004 N/A 2QFY1999 1QFY2004 N/A 2QFY2004 4QFY2007 N/A N/A
FY 2005 N/A 2QFY1999 3QFY2004 N/A 3QFY2005 2QFY2009 N/A N/A
FY 2006 N/A 2QFY1999 1QFY2005 N/A 3QFY2005 TBD N/A N/A
FY 2007 N/A 2QFY1999 4QFY2009 N/A 2QFY2007 4QFY2014 N/A N/A
FY 2008
FY 2009
1QFY1997 2
1QFY1997
QFY1999
03/22/1999
2QFY2011 2
2QFY2013
QFY2007 2QFY2007 4QFY2013 N/A N/A
a
04/11/2007 4/11/07 b
4QFY2016 N /A N/A
FY 2010 1QFY1997 03/22/1999 2QFY2013 04/11/2007 4/11/07 1QFY2017 N/A N/A
FY 2011 1QFY1997 03/22/1999 2QFY2013 04/11/2007 4/11/07 1QFY2017 N/A N/A
FY 2012 1QFY1997 03/22/1999 2QFY2013 04/11/2007 4/11/07 1QFY2017 N/A N/A
CD-0 – Approve Mission Need
CD-1 – Approve Alternative Selection and Cost Range
CD-2 – Approve Performance Baseline
CD-3 – Approve Start of Construction
a
Facility and process design were (confirm) completed in FY 2010, the equipment design will be completed in FY 2011 and
the software design will be completed in FY 2013.
b The Department approved CD-3 (Start of Construction) on April 11, 2007, however, as directed by the Revised Continuing
Resolution, 2007, Public Law 110-5, construction began on August 1, 2007.
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation/
Fissile Materials Disposition/
99-D-143, Mixed Oxide (MOX)
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget