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

FY 2010
Actual
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FY 2011
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FY 2012
Request
Routine Environmental Remediation: This process involves decontaminating to minimize the
environmental, health, and safety impact of contaminated facilities, with the benefit of making
radiological facilities available for non-radiological use. Funding has been identified in the
estimated amount of $26,300,000 to support this work in FY 2012, including the following:
• Conduct remediation of obsolete facilities to reduce potential environmental liabilities.
• Maintain inactive Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) prototype plants in a safe and
environmentally benign condition.
• Continue scoping study for the F-Complex demolition.
• Conduct decontamination and disposition of existing Expended Core Facility environmental
legacies.
• Continue efforts to prepare L-building for demolition.
• Enhance monitoring, training, and recycling programs to improve environmental controls.
• Enhance inventory controls, waste stream management and site inspection programs to better
deal with environmental liabilities.
• Develop procedures and qualify workers to properly handle, remove, dispose of, and
minimize the generation of hazardous wastes.
• Ensure decontamination work is performed in a manner that safeguards the workers and the
environment consistent with applicable regulatory requirements.
• Ensure wastes generated from decontamination operations are properly disposed of.
Servicing: This work involves servicing prototypes to ensure continued safe and reliable
operation. Servicing also provides refueling/defueling systems for both existing and new core
designs. Funding has been identified in the estimated amount of $30,228,000 to support this
work in FY 2012, including the following:
• Continue monitoring instrumentation and safeguards system cutting equipment design.
• Commence planning and design work to refuel and overhaul the land-based S8G Prototype.
• Design, fabricate, checkout and deliver equipment for safely servicing, defueling/refueling the
S9G/Next Generation Reactor, DMC and AFR cores.
• Develop procedures for the safe defueling/refueling of the S9G, DMC and AFR cores.
Expended Core Processing & Examination: This work involves operating the Expended Core
Facility (ECF) in Idaho including the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) in a safe and reliable
manner to support examination and disposal of spent naval fuel. Funding has been identified in
the estimated amount of $140,600,000 to support this work in FY 2012, including the following:
• Perform specific core component examinations as requested by test sponsors.
Naval Reactors/
Operations and Maintenance
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